ID: I49274857
Name: Tilman Monroe FOSTER
Given Name: Tilman Monroe
Surname: Foster
Sex: M
Birth: 23 September 1839 in Davie Co. North Carolina
Death: 1 June 1922 at 7 pm in North Brook Tp(I),Lincoln Co. North Carolina
Note: (Esq.)(Tillman,Tilmon). Tillman was a Sergeant with Company B,28th Regiment North Carolina Troops,"The Gaston Invincibles",Army of Northern Virginia.He enlisted 30 July 1861 as a Private.Promoted to Corporal 27 Feb.1862.Present until wounded in the arm at Cedar Mountain,Va. 9 August 1862. Returned to duty Nov.1862-Feb.1863. Wounded at Chancellorsville,Va. May 1-3 1863. Returned to duty bef.July 1-5,1863 when wounded and captured at Gettysburg,Pa. Confined at David's Island,N.Y.Harbor July 17-24,1863. Paroled and transferred to City Point,Va. where received 16 Sept.1863 for exchange. Returned to duty at unspecified date;promoted to Sergeant Sept.1863-Oct.1864. Surrendered at Appomattox,Va. 9 Apr.1865.At surrender,his commanding officer was Capt.T.J.Lineberger.Tillman served on the board of county commissioners and was a J.O.P.of North Brook for 40 years. Tilman has been mistakenly called "Hillery" Foster in the book "Our Kin" by L.M. Hoffman.
Father: William FOSTER b: 30 April 1806 in Rowan or Davie Co. North Carolina
Mother: Matilda MINOR b: 16 August 1816
Marriage 1
Mary Frances BESS b: 1 December 1843
- Married:
18 December 1866
in N.C.
Children
 Mary Agnes Ellen FOSTER b: 12 September 1869 (or 1868) in N.C. William L.C. FOSTER b: 23 August 1867 in Lincoln Co. N.C.- Elizabeth Catherine Alice FOSTER b: 10 December 1869-70 in N.C.
- Susan M. FOSTER b: 24 February 1872 in N.C.
- Walter Coppage FOSTER b: 6 March 1879 in Lincoln Co. N.C.
- Hattie Agnes FOSTER b: 22 July 1883 in N.C.
- Fannie May FOSTER b: 7 May 1885 in N.C.
Marriage 2
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