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Submitted: 9/11/21 • Approved: 9/14/21 • Last Updated: 9/17/21 • R456009-G0-S3
Dr. Robert Savidge Foster
PRIVATE 5th Regiment Alabama Infantry
Confederate States Army
June 19, 1840 - June 13, 1913
Robert Savidge Foster was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on June 19, 1840 to Susanna Holifield and
John Lovelace Savidge Foster.
He is the brother of Elizabeth Amelia Foster Foster (1823–1896), Martha E. Foster Crawford (1830–1909) and Ezra O. Foster (1842-1924). (If there are other siblings, they are unknown at this time)
On the 1860 Census, Robert is living on his own at age 19, in the Western Division of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
On September 13, 1866, he married Amanda Lydia Paschal in Clinton, Greene County, Alabama. From this union he became the father of Ross R. Foster, Martha Crawford Foster, Emma Foster Loughridge, B. Foster, F. Foster.
Mr. Foster enlisted in the service in the winter of 1861 and served for 4 years continuously. Robert was first a member of the Tuscaloosa "Warrior Guards". Then, under Captain William H. Fowler, he served in the Infantry and was a member of the 5th Alabama Regiment Volunteers, Colonel R.E. Rhodes, but left that command in the Spring of 1862 to return to his home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with the intent to assist in Captain Lumden's Artillery. He remained with this branch of service until he was captured at the Battle of Missionary Ridge. Mr. Foster was held as a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas until June after the surrender.
Robert S. Foster attended Medical School at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans: University of LA Medicine Department, 1895.
Type of Practice: Allopathic Medicine
Dr. Robert Savidge Foster died in Angleton, Brazoria County, Texas at the age of 73 on June 13, 1913. He preceded his wife in death by 17 years; she never remarried. Mr. Foster, his wife and several of his children are all buried together at the Angleton Cemetery.
Contributed on 9/11/21 by deanakh1
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