Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Rev. James Foster and Eleanor Welch




Husband Rev. James Foster 1

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Wife Eleanor Welch 1

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         Father: Robert Welch (1751-1809) 2
         Mother: Mary Caldwell (1754-1832) 2




Children

General Notes: Husband - Rev. James Foster


A Baptist minister, he lived at Grave Creek, Virginia. He became a Campbellite, and it used to be claimed in that connection that he was the first among that body to suggest the new organization and separate denominational sect.


Notes: Marriage

Their children:
1. Mary Foster, married [Unk] Bain.
2. Sally Foster, married [Unk] Stewart.
3. William Foster, married, first, [Unk] Cox, and later was married again.
4. Jane Foster.
5. Louisa Foster, married [Unk] Cox.
6. Nancy Foster, married [Unk] Munnel.
7. Hannah Foster.
8. John Foster.
9. James Foster.
10. Thomas Foster.

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Sources


1 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 168.

2 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 167.


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