Foster Family Tree

Asa Foster (c. 1766 -1861 of Canterbury, NH) m. Sarah Morrill (c. 1773-1866)

Asa Emerson Foster, Jr. (b. 1795) m. Maria Chickering 9/3/1830 [he graduated Dartmouth 1822]
Lucy Wilson Foster (b. 1/20/1797) m. Caleb Morse Woodman
Hannah Foster (4/2/1798-6/13/1826) [unmarried]
Adams Foster (2/22/1800-1861) m. Sarah Bradley Eastman (8/8/1805 in Concord, NH-10/1/1893) 11/21/1832 [they work Stephen’s farm until buying nearby farm in 1851; [she was granddaughter of Sarah Kimball Foster; Tatnuck Ladies Sewing Circle, President]
- Cyrus Parker Foster (8/18/1833-9/23/1838)
- Ann Maria Foster (8/3/1836-6/13/1890) m. Frank Joel Kinney 5-30-1858 [he married twice; 3 children with second wife]
  - Herbert “Bert” Ralph Kinney (6/23/1860-12/6/1948) m. Lillian Robbins (b. 4/20/1860) 11/20/1884 [2 children]
  - Lorenzo Foster Kinney (10/8/1861-9/9/1944) m. Helen Wells 7/9/1891 [graduated Agricultural College-Amherst; professor in Kingston, RI; 5 children]
  - Henry Eastman Kinney (3/14/1866-1/12/1954) [Boston Art School; artist of Abby’s portrait at WHM; unmarried]
  - Emma Flora Kinney (9/13/1868-5/8/1926) [graduated Boston City Hospital in 1897; nurse in Boston; unmarried]
  - Asa Stephen Kinney (8/23/1873-3/8/1961) [graduated Mass Agricultural College 1897; professor of botany at Mt. Holyoke College; 2 children]
  - Clarence Walker Kinney (8/30/1875-8/11/1956) [graduated WPI; engineer; unmarried]
  - Sarah Clarissa Kinney (9/17/1877-6/1974) m. George A. Watson (d. 11/7/1957) 1900
    - Stuart E. Watson [2 children]
    - Jean Kinney Watson (6/19/1911) m. Darrell Denny Holton
      - Alanson D. Holton
      - David E. Holton
- Asa Eastman Foster (5/31/1841 in NH-1/28/1877 Beoweoie, NV) m. Sophia Steele 5/30/1873
  - Sarah E. (b. 2/23/1874 Reno, NV) m. O.M. Harshbarger 12/10/1893
    - Asa Foster Harshbarger (b. 9-23-1894) m. Helen Grace Davie [CA]
  - Lucy (4/30/1876) m. (1) Samuel Calef, (2) William Cross
- Charles Tyler Foster (10/9/1843-5/27/1915 in Worcester) [unmarried]
- Emma E. Foster (8/27/1839-8/17/1858) [Abby’s cousin and companion]
- [Adams works on Stephen’s farm and then buys nearby farm in 1851]
Harrison Foster (b. 9/10/1801) m. Caroline Chadwick (d. 11/30/1841) [no children]
Mehatable Foster (10/31/1803-11/9/1899 in Fontenelle, IA) m. Eliphalet Kilburn 1/1/1833
Sarah Foster (12/7/1805- 5/31/1890) [teacher in Cleveland, OH
Galen Foster (10/10/1807-3/9/1907) [lawyer in Erie, Pennsylvania]
Stephen Symonds Foster (11/17/1809-9/8/1881) m. Abby Kelley (1/15/1811-1/14/1887)
- “Alla” Paulina Wright Foster (5/19/1847-4/21/1923 in NH)
- [whole family is buried in Hope Cemetery [he graduated Dartmouth 1838]
David Morrill Foster (10/30/1811) m. Sarah Bradley Robertson
Newel Abbott Foster (2/7/1814-11/20/1868 in Portland, Maine?) m. (1) Eliza Allison 1838 [Concord, NH], (2) Ellen French 1861
- Adelaide F. Foster (1853-9/15/1919) m. Austin Brainerd
  - Helen A. Brainerd [New York City]
- Leroy Foster m Emma Eastman 1874 [Was she on Worcester School Committee, 1897-1898 and 1916?]
  - Cornelia “Nela” Foster
  - Clifford Foster
Caroline Foster [“Cally/Callie/ Carrie”] (1/13/1816-4/15/1910) [unmarried; Hartford, CT and Sandwich, NH] [cares for Alla, but 1851 returns home to care for her mother after Sarah’s stroke; teacher]

Primary source: Holton Collection at Worcester Historical Museum