MARTIN PARMER FOSTER             

MARTIN PARMER FOSTER was born 3 Nov. 1822 in Glasgow, Howard Co., Missouri, son 
of Pethuel and Margaret (Bones) Foster. His father, Pethuel Foster, was a disabled War 
of 1812 Veteran who came to Missouri before 1820. Pethuel was born in Massachusetts, but
lived in New Hampshire. Martin's grandfather was Revolutionary War Veteran John  Foster,
who married Anna Beard. Martin's mother, Margaret Bones, was born in Tennessee, a 
daughter of William and Jane (Bogard) Bones. 
 
Martin Foster married on 1 Jan. 1850 in Johnson Co. Mo ( the marriage was 
recorded in Cass Co.)  to (Polly) Mary Delia Carpenter, daughter of William and (Polly) Mary 
Margaret (Warren) Carpenter. Mary Margaret  was  the Daughter of Revolutionary war 
veteran, Martin Warren, founder of Warrensburg, Mo. Mary's other grandfather, Adam 
Carpenter, also fought in the Revolutionary War, and his father, George (Zimmerman) 
Carpenter, was killed in that war.  The Carpenter and Warren families both had forts in 
Lincoln Co., Kentucky as early as 1780 and both families came from Virginia.  
 
Martin's brother, William P. Foster, married Eveline Lusby in Johnson Co.,Mo.,10 May 1852.
 He died in Johnson Co. 17 Mar.1864 and is buried in Pemberton Cemetery. His sister, 
Nancy Jane Foster, married Samuel Smith, 25 Dec. 1854 in Johnson Co., Mo. She died 14 
Aug. 1859 in Johnson Co. There was at least one more sister, name unknown, listed as age 
10-15 on the 1840 census. 
 
Martin served as a contract teamster for three months during the War With Mexico, driving a 
wagon loaded with supplies  from Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas through Indian Territory to 
Sante Fe.  He received 160 acres of bounty land for his service but his application for a 
pension ( #SA2279 ) was rejected, stating that he had been a civilian employee of The 
Quartermaster Department, not a soldier. By 1850, he was Overseer of a plantation in 
Jackson Co. Between 1850 and 1883, Martin and Mary lived in Jackson Co. Mo., Gunn City 
in Cass Co., and Kingsville in Johnson Co., Missouri. Although there is no evidence that 
Martin supported Quantrill's Guerrillas during the Civil War, they often camped on the 
plantation where he lived and worked. 

In 1883 they moved to  Fremont, Dodge Co., Nebraska, then on to Fontenelle, Cass Co. 
Nebraska.  They can be found there on the 1885 state census. In 1886 they moved to
Box Butte County and homesteaded near Alliance. They lived in a "dugout" home. 
In 1895 they had settled into the town of Alliance, where their daughter Cynthia and her 
husband, William Wiley Baker were living.  W.W. and Cynthia moved on to Coffeyville, 
Kansas, and later to Nevada, Missouri,  but Martin and Mary stayed in Alliance. 

Martin died 17 Feb. 1897 in Alliance and was buried in Alliance Cemetery. His gravestone 
says  "G.A.R. 1860-1865" but there is no record found of his civil war military service 
in the National Archives, Missouri State Archives or the Nebraska state G.A.R. records. 
The G.A.R. probably furnished their standard gravestone because of his service in The
War With  Mexico. Mary died 27 July 1907 at nearby Scottsbluff,  Nebraska, where she 
had been living with her daughter, Pearl for five years. She was taken to Alliance and buried 
beside Martin. 
Martin and Mary Foster's children were: Elizabeth Jane, Cynthia Azem, Horace Gaines, 
Nancy A.C., Mary, Lola, Columbia and Pearl Ellen.
 
 
My line of descent from Martin Parmer Foster:
Martin Parmer Foster m. Mary Delia Carpenter
Cynthia Azem foster m. William Wiley Baker
James Otis Baker m. Bertha Rachael Love
James R. Baker, Sr. m. Ruby Alene Wardrip
James R. Baker, Jr.

    
James R. Baker, Jr.
 

      
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