Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

PETER C. FOSTER was born March 16, 1826, in Allen County, where he has 
since resided.  His father, Joseph Foster, was born in South Carolina.  
He afterward lived in Kentucky and finally in Giles County, Tenn.  
Joseph Foster was married, about 1824, to Rachel, daughter of James and 
Elizabeth Lovell, of Virginia.  From this union sprang Elizabeth 
(Mayhew), Joseph, Jr., and Peter C.  Joseph Foster departed this life in 
1828.  Peter C. was married February 14, 1852, to Miss Minerva A., 
daughter of James W. and Edie (Cornwell) Bennett, who was born about 
1825.  To them have been born Hester A. (deceased), James F., Pelina G. 
and Joseph W. (twins, of whom the latter is deceased), Marshall A., 
William C. and Mary E. (twins), and Florence M. (deceased).  He has by 
his own industry, economy and perseverance, accumulated a comfortable 
competency for his family.  He has a well improved and productive farm 
of 118 acres, in good condition and a fine state of cultivation.  He is 
a thoroughly self-made man and in politics he is a Republican.

Bennett Cornwell Foster Lovell Mayhew
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Giles-TN SC VA

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