This site is donated mainly to the Foster & Molder Family of Missouri and their Descendants.
John Daniel Foster and his wife Eleanor Brown were the parents of Robert Thomas Foster. John Daniel's brother, Williamson Foster, married Nancy Brown, daughter of Jonas Brown and Mary Hart, daughter of Jon Hart of Kentucky. They were married in Allen County. KY.
Mary Hart was born VA, John Hart and his wife were also from VA. Jon died before 1823 and lived in Barren county, Ky 1810.
John Daniel Foster, father of "our" ROBERT THOMAS FOSTER, married Eleanor Brown, a Daughter of Jonas Brown and Mary (Polly) Hart, sister to Nancy Brown who married John Daniel's brother Williamson Foster.
Records show that Williamson Foster of Camden County, Missouri appointed Prince Foster of
Allen County Kentucky to act with power of attorney on his behalf for the settlement of his mother Sarah Foster's estate. Her Estate was settled June 17, 1852.
Robert Foster, is believed to be the grandfather of John Daniel Foster, he was granted a large amount of land,
2100 acres in Kentucky from the Govenor.
In the 1814 deed book "D" of Barren County, Kentucky, Jonas Brown buys land that had been pat. to Robert Foster.
The Browns and the Fosters all lived very close to each other and through marriages were a closely united family.
Early Missouri history tell us that Jonas Brown and his son in law Williamson Foster came to Linn Creek Missouri together in 1835, with their wife's and later John Daniel Foster, brother of Williamson joined them and married Jonas Brown's daughter Eleanor Brown.
ROBERT THOMAS FOSTER who was born October 11, 1837, in Linn Creek,Camden County, Missouri to John Daniel Foster, born 1807 in Va. and wife, Eleanor Brown, born 1817 in Kentucky, daughter of Jonas Brown and Mary "Polly" Hart. of Virgina.
Robert was their first born.
Robert served as a private
in the Confederate Army, CO I, 4th
Missouri Calvary, commanded by Captain George Taylor who surrendered at New Orleans, La., May 26, 1865, and paroled at Shreveport, La., June 8, 1865. Robert He was a prisoner of war in Shreveport La. in 1865.
Robert Thomas Foster married Louisa Ann Moulder in March of 1863, She was the daughter of Felta Valentine Moulder, a very prominent & politicial family in Linn Creek, Camden County
Missouri. After Robert "Bob" Foster returned from the Civil War, he and his young wife, two small children, Charles Lawrence Foster and Minnie Foster moved from Missouri to Lipan,
Hood County, Texas, where they homesteaded many acres. Foster familes still live on the orginal homestead, it's on record in Fort Worth, Texas
as land occupied by family for over one hundred years
It appears there were several families from Linn Creek, Missouri who migrated to Lipan, Texas about the same time... probably together
in wagon trains. Indians were in the Texas Area, some hostile. A book in the Granbury County Library titled "Glancing Backward, a History of
Lipan, Texas" which gives accounts of the last Indian Battle fought in Lipan. Bob Foster was a leader in this battle and his wife Louisa
played an important part by ringing the large bell that alerted neighbors of approching Indians who were nearby.
Louisa died of pneumonia in 1880 leaving Robert a widower with eight young children, one of which was a baby less than a year old.
Twenty years later after these children were grown Robert Foster remarried, Ina stella Collins, who bore him three more children. Robert died in 1920 at the age of 83 years.
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In the first picture shown below is Robert T. Foster.
The second picture is Robert's son, Charles L. Foster and wife Cora Tingley.
The picture above is of Weldon Clegg, grandson of Charles L. Foster, holding a rifle that had belonged to his great grandfather Robert T. Foster and Jewel Compton, daughter of Robert T. Foster, from his second marriage, she is holding a Colt 44 revolver that had belonged to her
father. Until her death Jewell lived on the Foster Farm in Lipan, Texas. Robert T. Foster homesteaded the property after the Civil war had ended.
Robert T. Foster moved to Texas sometime after the Civil War and in 1872 acquired 300 acres.
He and his first wife Louisa had eight children. With his second wife Ina he had three children.
Active in community affairs, Foster was appointed Road Commissioner in 1876.
He also had a large bell that he rang to warn other settlers when Indians were nearby. In addition, he had the responsibility of moving a large safe from Weatherford to the courthouse in Granbury. This meant crossing the Brazos River on a swinging bridge with a wagon pulled by oxen. Today, the safe is still housed in the courthouse.
After Foster died in 1920, his widow Ina and their three children inherited 106 acres of the farm. A daughter, Jewell, is present owner of the farm, having acquired 48 of the 106 acres in 1942. She and her husand Leslie also purchased 92 acres of adjoining land. Until her death she lived on the Compton farm alone and operated the farm, which produced cattle, grain and Coastal Bermuda grass.
If you would like to visit the Foster Farm in Lipan, Texas, click on the "NEXT" link below. This site tells much about the life of Robert Thomas Foster
and family in Texas. He was truly a remarkable man. 
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