Hull Foster Ledgers

Hull Foster, JR. - son of Hull Foster who moved to Athens in 1809. When about seventeen, Mr. Foster took up the trade of shoemaking-to use his own expression, "just as a cow does kicking-in her own head." In 1821 he returned to Athens, resumed his trade, and built the house. Later, he married his first wife, a daughter of Mr. Ira Carpenter. Since then he has steadily adhered to his trade, at which he has worked for more than fifty years, and still works some, though under no necessity to do so. There is one family in the county for whom he has made shoes for five generations. He has been twice married-his second wife was a daughter of Mr. William Brown (Maria), of Lee township- and is now a widower. A man of strong sense, strict integrity, and marked force of character, his life and virtues are known and read of all his neighbors.