Joseph + Cary Ruth Hancock. Cary was born on 8 Aug 1908 in South Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Attorney

Harry Foster was an attorney in Lancaster and York Counties, and a member
of the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1912. He died of a
heart attack at the age of fifty.

Joseph married Mary Preston Huey on 24 Jun 1903 in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Mary (daughter of Robert M. Huey and Margaret J. Shaw) was born on 13 Jul 1881 in Winnsboro, South Carolina; died on 13 Apr 1952 in Aiken, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mamie Huey was raised by her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hoge
Ketchin of Winnsboro. She was a teacher, and lived with her sons
alternatingly.

Obituary Lancaster News 15 April 1952:

FORMER TEACHER HERE SUCCUMBS IN AIKEN

Aiken- (Special) - Mrs. Mary Preston Huey Foster, 70, widow of J. Harry
Foster, died at the Aiken County hospital Sunday morning following an
extended illness.
Mrs. Foster, a native of Winnsboro, had made her home in Aiken for the
past year with her son, Joseph H. Foster.
Funeral services were to be conducted at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon at
the graveside in West Side cemetery at Lancaster by the Rev. H.G.
Wardlaw, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Lancaster.
In addition to her son, Mrs. Foster is survived by one daughter, Mrs.
Mary Foster Brennen of Alaska; one brother, James Shaw Ketchin of
Winnsboro, and seven grandchildren.
Mrs. Foster was a daughter of the late Robert and Margaret Shaw Huey
of Fairfield County. She was an early graduate of Winthrop college. She
taught school for many years in Lancaster and at Hand Junior high school
in Columbia. She was a member of the Shandon Presbyterian church of
Columbia

Notes:

Physician

Attended Medical College of S.C. 1858-1859. His Preceptor was R.E. Wylie.
Joe Foster was a physician in Lancaster County, and served as a Medical
Officer during the Civil War. He rose from Private to Surgeon of
Jenkins' Brigade, and was functioning as Division Surgeon at the
surrender. He was buried as a Brigadier General, but there is no record
of his holding that rank.

Article, Lancaster News (undated clipping):

Dr. J. H. FOSTER

"Between the years 1865-85, one of the best known men in the county
and village of Lancaster was Dr. Joe. An old-time family doctor,
physician, nurse, and friend, he was loved by one and all as he traveled
over the rutted dirt roads in his horse and buggy to the homes of the
sick.
Dr. Joseph Henry Foster was born April 20, 1835 at his father's
plantation home on the Catawba River in the Waxhaws section of Lancaster
County. He was the youngest child of John and Ann Kelsey Cantzon Foster,
and a grandson of Captain John Foster and his wife Ann Dunlop. The Foster
home had been built close to the river, sometime around 1752 when the
family came down from Pennsylvania, on the plantation now belonging to
the children of Anna Foster Moore. But, due to the prevalence of malaria
which had caused the deaths of a number of the older brothers and sisters
of Dr. Joe, a new home had been erected higher up on the old plantation.
This home site is on the Lancaster-Riverside highway where C.C. Hanson
now lives. The house was burned before 1900.
Dr. Joe and his brother, Captain John Cantzon Foster received their
first education in a neighborhood school, then were sent by their father
to Mt Zion Institute in Winnsboro to prepare for entrance into the
University of South Carolina. From the University both were graduated in
1855. Joseph Henry then studied medicine in Charleston and in 1860
finished at the New Orleans School of Medicine.
Early in the spring of 1861, Dr. Foster volunteered with the Lancaster
Greys of the Confederate Army, and was with them on the S.C. coast and
later in Virginia. He was promoted to the full rank of Surgeon by order
of the Secretary of War of the Confederacy in 1862 and served with the
5th S.C. Volunteers, under the command of General Coward, until the end
of the war. An obituary of him at the time of his death says "Dr. Foster
had but few equals in the Confederate service as a successful surgeon and
physician, and it not infrequently happened that he was detailed to do
brigade and division duty."
At the close of the war, Dr. Foster returned to his father's Waxhaw
home, which he inherited upon his father's death in 1867. In 1869, he was
married to Charlotte Brown, daughter of Daniel Washington and Elizabeth
Amanda Barnes Brown. In 1876, the couple moved down to the village of
Lancaster. Their home was on the corner of Dunlap and Catawba Streets,
later sold to Dr. G. F. Poovey, and now belonging to the county, the site
of the Public Welfare Building.
In addition to practicing medecine, Dr. Foster was interested in
agriculture in every form. He planted his farm in the Waxhaws and raised
cattle on land he had bought on Gills Creek, a good part of what is now
North Main. He grew fruit trees and always had a beautiful flower garden."
Dr. and Mrs. Foster had ten children, all but three growing to
adulthood. Three of his sons followed their father's profession, the
fourth was a Lancaster attorney.
Dr. Foster died May 23, 1885. Buried in the same plot of the old
Presbyterian Cemetery with him and his wife are three young children and
a son, Dr. Carl Foster, and the latter's wife. Dr. Carl Foster practiced
medicine many years in Columbia, S.C.. Also buried beside their parents
are two daughters well-remembered by many Lancastrians, Misses Eloise and
Gertrude Foster, who were beloved teachers in the Lancaster Public school
for many years. Two children are still living, Dr. Ralph Kelsey Foster
and Miss Caroline Foster, both of Columbia, S.C."Attended Medical College
of S.C. 1858-1859. His Preceptor was R.E. Wylie.
Joe Foster was a physician in Lancaster County, and served as a Medical
Officer during the Civil War. He rose from Private to Surgeon of
Jenkins' Brigade, and was functioning as Division Surgeon at the
surrender. He was buried as a Brigadier General, but there is no record
of his holding that rank.

Article, Lancaster News (undated clipping):

Joseph married Charlotte Rebecca Brown on 9 Nov 1869 in Lancaster County, South Carolina. Charlotte (daughter of Daniel Washington McDonald Brown and Elizabeth Amanda Barnes) was born on 20 Apr 1849 in Lancaster County, South Carolina; died on 19 Mar 1918 in Lancaster, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Charlotte's obituary in the Lancaster News of 22 March 1918 mentions four
surviving sons; Harry, Cantzon, Carl, and Ralph; four surviving
daughters; Eloise, Gertrude, Katherine, and Josephine; one brother,
George Brown and one sister Liddie Jones.

Notes:

County/State: Kings Co., NY

Location: 10 W.Brooklyn 3 Di

Page #: 417

Year: 1860

Robert M. Huey was born in New York, according to the 1880 census. He
moved to Winnsboro, South Carolina after the Civil War and married
Margaret Shaw. He ran a general store there for many years, and they had
three children. The eldest, Maggie, died 19 March, 1882 at the age of
three, and is buried at Bethel ARP in Winnsboro. She choked on a piece of
candy while her parents were at church. The 1880 census shows Robert and
Margaret living in Winnsboro with Margaret J. Shaw, his mother-in-law,
who was born in Ireland. Mary Preston, known as Mamie, was born in 1881,
and Robert Cathcart was born in 1884. Margaret died at about that time,
and Robert seems to have fallen apart. His children were raised by
Margaret's sister Mary, who was married to Thomas Hoge Ketchin, at one
time mayor of Winnsboro. Robert went through all of his money, then
worked for several newspapers before he died in Columbia 29 July, 1892.
An obituary for G.L. Huey in the Fairfield News & Herald of 30 September,
1885 refers to him as the brother of Robert M. Huey and the son of M.M.
Huey. Although both R.M. and Margaret were members of Bethel ARP Church
in Winnsboro, neither is buried there.

The 20 March 1882 issue of the Fairfield News And Herald carries an
account of the death of Maggie Huey, the daughter.[Broderbund Family
Archive #318, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1860,
Date of Import: 15 Mar 1996, Internal Ref. #1.318.1.17996.120]

Individual: Huey, Robert M.
County/State: Kings Co., NY
Location: 10 W.Brooklyn 3 Di
Page #: 417
Year: 1860

Robert married Margaret J. Shaw about 1878 in Probably Winnsboro, South Carolina. Margaret (daughter of James Warnock Shaw and Margaret J. Elder) was born in 1854 in South Carolina, USA; died on 12 Sep 1888 in Winnsboro, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Fairfield News & Herald, Wednesday, 19 September, 1888:

"Death of Mrs. R.M. Huey- Mrs. Maggie Shaw Huey, wife of Mr. R. M. Huey,
died on Wednesday morning after an illness of about two weeks. Though she
has been quite sick during this period, she was much better on Tuesday
morning, and in fact had sat up for a while. Her friends were not at all
apprehensive, but she became worse and worse until death finally brought
an end to her sufferings. The deceased was the eldest daughter of the
late Robert M. and Margaret Shaw, and was thirty-four years of age. Mrs.
Huey was a lady of many Christian virtues, and she will be sadly missed
by her many friends and relatives. She leaves a husband, two young
children, and an only sister to mourn her untimely death. The funeral
services were held at the A. R. P. Church on Wednesday afternoon. To the
bereaved husband and family, we extend our sympathies and those of the
entire community."