Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 575-576 [McCracken]

     DAVIS JEFFERSON FOSTER, M. D.  The medical profession of
Paducah has a worthy member in the subject of this sketch, Davis
Jefferson Foster.  Dr. Foster was born in Davidson county,
Tennessee, February 26, 1831, son of William Sanders Fosters and
Nancy Jane (Walker) Foster, both natives of Tennessee, the former of
Smith county and the latter of Davidson county.  William Foster, the
Doctor's grandfather, was also a native of Tennessee, the Foster
family having emigrated at a very early day to that state from the
Old Dominion.  During the war of 1812 William Foster enlisted, went
to the front and served gallantly, but was brought home sick of
disease contracted in the army and died a few days afterward,
leaving a widow and two children, William S., and Isaac C., aged
respectively four and two years.  With her helpless little ones, the
brave widow faced the struggle of life, and brought up her children
under trying circumstances.  William S. grew to manhood and married
in Tennessee, and settled on a farm in Davidson county, where he
passed the rest of his life and where his death occurred at the age
of eighty-three years.  His wife was eighty-two at the time of her
death.  She bore Mr. Foster four children, and by a former husband
she had three children.
     Davis Jefferson Foster was reared on his father's farm and gained a
fair education in local schools and academies.  At about
the age of twenty-three years he left the parental home and went to
Farmington, Graves county, Kentucky, where he began the study of
medicine in the office of his brother-in-law, Dr. James Henry; going
thence to the University of Tennessee at Nashville, where he
graduated in 1859.  After his graduation he opened an office and put
out his shingle in Cuba, Graves county, Kentucky, and for six years
was engaged in practice there.  The next eleven years he was located
at Wallonia, Trigg county, Kentucky, removing thence to Mayfield,
Graves county, Kentucky, where he spent the following nine years,
and in 1880 he came to Paducah.  All these years he has been in
active practice, and has met with the success which his honorable
methods and earnest efforts have merited.  Both as a physician and
citizen he enjoys the confidence and respect of the people of his
city, where he as spent more than two decades.  Dr. Foster is a
member of the Paducah Medical Association, the Southwestern Medical
Society and the Kentucky State Medical Association.
     Of Dr. Foster's political views, it may be said that he was
born and reared a Whig and that he later became a Democrat, to which
faith he still adheres.  He has, however, never been active in
politics, never having sought or filled office.  During the year
1861 he served as a private in the First Tennessee Cavalry.  Dr.
Foster is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
     In 1862 Dr. Foster married Miss Harriet Ann Richardson, who
died in 1894, and in 1897 he married Virginia Catherine Richardson,
her sister.  By his first marriage he has four sons living, viz.:
James A., William H., Richard O. and Albert M.  The third born,
Robert died at the age of eighteen months.

Foster Walker Henry Richardson
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Davidson-TN Smith-TN VA Graves-KY Trigg-KY

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