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From: "Wanda Worley" <>
Subject: Re: [KYMCCREA] Bryant
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:07:57 -0400
References: <1189827721.230146@rootsweb.com>


Have you talked to Ernest Perkins?
Your grandmother Bertha Foster, donated the land for the Marshes Siding
Baptist Church. Do you have any history on the church? Please email me
.

Wanda
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Subject: Re: [KYMCCREA] Bryant


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> Author: jaf51463
> Surnames: Bryant, Perkins, Clark, Foster, Ramsey, etc.
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> My Great Grandfather was called Zorel Foster. I'm sure that Zorel was
> probably short for something but I don't know what. I don't know anything
> for certain about his parents either. What I do know about him is that he
> served in the 30th Kentucky Mounted Infantry (Union) during the Civil War
> and was inducted at Camp Burnside. He married Millie Ramsey on January 1,
> 1871. I know of 11 children they had: Edward (my Grandfather - born in
> 1888, died in 1944), Luther, William, Dock, Cornelius, Bert, Owen, Mary
> Liz, Maude, Hattie May, and Cordelia.
>
> Family tradition says that Zorel had a brother named Shelby and a sister
> named Polly Ann. I know nothing else about them. Zorel was born about 1843
> and died about 1912.
>
> My grandfather Edward Foster married Bertha Perkins (1901-1987, daughter
> of Emma Bryant and Lewis Perkins) in 1921 (Ed was 13 years older than
> Bertha) and they had 10 children, 4 of which are still living. Ed worked
> as a coal miner until he developed black lung. He then went to work for a
> railroad in Cincinnati, where he was crushed between two train cars and
> killed in 1944.
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