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]

1. Jessie Foster was born on 2 Apr 1871 in Lancaster, SC; died on 17 Jun 1881 in Lancaster, SC.
2. Eloise Foster was born on 28 Jul 1872; died on 17 Jun 1881.
3. Joseph Henry Foster was born on 19 Sep 1874 in Lancaster, South Carolina; died on 13 Nov 1926 in Lancaster, South Carolina.
4. Gertrude Foster was born on 14 Mar 1876 in Lancaster, SC; died after 1918.
5. John Cantzon Foster was born on 26 Jul 1877 in Lancaster County, SC; died on 22 Jul 1939 in Timmonsville, SC.
6. Carl Atkins Foster was born on 1 Apr 1879 in Lancaster, South Carolina; died on 15 May 1935 in Columbia, South Carolina.
7. Natalie Foster was born on 6 Aug 1880; died on 10 Aug 1880.
8. Katherine McDonald Foster was born on 2 Aug 1881; died in Aug 1964 in Columbia, SC.
9. Ralph Kelsey Foster was born on 11 May 1884; died on 2 Feb 1956.
10. Josephine Gautier Foster was born on 20 Dec 1885; died on 2 Apr 1948.

Notes:

Mill Owner

John Foster ran a mill in Lancaster County, South Carolina. He married
his first cousin, Ann Kelsey Cantzon.

John married Ann Kelsey Cantzon on 28 May 1818 in South Carolina, USA. Ann (daughter of John Cantzon and Rachel Foster) was born on 14 Jan 1795 in Lancaster County, South Carolina; died on 31 Oct 1846 in Lancaster County, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Foster served during the Revolution as a Captain in Lieutenant
Colonel Harry Hampton's Regiment of South Carolina Light Dragoons. He was
wounded at the battle of Hanging Rock, and was paid "one grown negro" for
his service. DAR applications #557496 (Mary Elizabeth Hurt), #82106
(Miss Blanche Moore), and #92949 (Gertrude Foster) are based on
descendancy from John Foster.

John married Mary Atkins in 1780. Mary (daughter of John Atkins and Phoebe Philpott) was born in 1749 in Lancaster County, South Carolina; died on 3 Nov 1801 in Lancaster County, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Tailor

John married Rachel Foster on 18 Jul 1791 in Lancaster County, South Carolina. Rachel (daughter of Henry Foster and Ann Dunlop) was born on 22 Jul 1769 in The Waxhaws, Lancaster County SC; died on 11 Oct 1826 in South Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Henry Foster migrated from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania to Lancaster
County, South Carolina with a large group that settled in The Waxhaws
area. Henry served during the Revolution as a Corporal in George Liddel's
Company, 3rd Regiment, South Carolina Continental Troops under Colonel
William Thompson.

Henry married Ann Dunlop on 5 Mar 1752 in Paxton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Ann was born in 1732 in Lancaster County, South Carolina; died on 14 Dec 1795 in Lancaster County, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anne Foster's maiden name is found in various sources as DUNLOP, KELSO,
KELSEY, and DUNLOP KELSEY.

Notes:

Married:
TEXT Philadelphia also cited as location of Marriage

John married Phoebe Philpott in Mar 1747 in Philadelphia, PA. Phoebe was born about 1725; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Physician

John Cantzon was christened John Charles Rene Jacques Cantzon. He arrived
in the Waxhaws area of Lancaster County, South Carolina sometime before
the Revolution. He was married to Sarah Dickey, was a practicing
physician known as "the French Doctor", and owned a considerable amount
of land. After John Cantzon's death, Sarah married Daniel Harper. He was
killed by Regulators for Tory activities, and Sarah took most of her
children overseas.
Joseph I. Waring, in his History of Medicine in S.C. 1670-1825, notes Dr.
John Cantzon in Waxhaws, 1763 (South Carolina J. Council Dec 6, 1763)
8:340, 10:55 . Page 391. (Note: I don't understand these reference
numbers, either).
Dr. John Jacob Cantzon owned land in Paxtang Township Pennsylvania next
to land of Moses Dickey and John Foster. A land indenture from John Jacob
Cantzon to John Buzzart is on file in Pennsylvania dated 26 July, 1763.

John Cantzon and Sarah Diggy (sic) were married 1 August, 1761 in
Paxtang, Pennsylvania by Rev. John Casper Stoever according to "Notes and
Queries Related to Pennsylvania" by William Henry Egle, Annual Volume for
1896, page 100. Clements' "North and South Carolina Marriages" shows the
marriage in Lancaster County, South Carolina. Since Paxtang is in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Clements may have mis-assumed. My guess
is they were married in Pennsylvania.

John married Sarah Dickey on 1 Aug 1761 in Paxtang Township, Pennsylvania. Sarah (daughter of Moses Dickey and Mary Witherspoon) was born about 1740 in York County, SC; died in 1797 in Lancaster District, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
TEXT Location Paxtang, PA