Person:Nancy Calvert (14)

Handwritten page by Ette (POSTLE) FOSTER written after the death of her husband William H. FOSTER (July 20, 1912), but before her own death in ???. This page recounts a family story told to her by her father-in-law William FOSTER. A recount of this is below. Note that this is not a verbatim transcription.

William FOSTER was the son of George and Nancy FOSTER. William's mother's maiden name was CALVERT. Her father named Francis, had drowned in the Susquehanna River at about Danville, PA. Francis CALVERT was a brother of John and Cecil CALVERT. "These men have a claim in the City of Baltimore, which is unsettled and is known as 'Calvert Square' ". Nancy Calvert had two brothers and two sisters, John and Francis - Sally and Jane. John and Francis are both married and have large families and reside in Gemesey Co, OHIO. Sarah (or Sallie) CALVERT married a man by the name of James ANDERSON, near Pottsville, PA. They had four children. Jane CALVERT married a man by the name of Obediah SMITH of Columbia County and they had three children. Jane was remarried to a man by the name of John RILEY, and they had four children. RILEY had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

Nancy CALVERT was the youngest child of Francis CALVERT's children. She was married twice. Her first husband was named Robert GILES, by whom she had four children. "Margaret (or Peggy) GILES married a man by the name of John HOUSEL of Milton, PA. Jane GILES married a man by the name of David DIEFFENBACHER of Milton, PA. Hannah GILES, married a man by the name of Thomas (or Charles) VanKIRK of Columbiana Co. She also married again, this man name was David CUSTIS, all in that neighborhood. Robert GILES was the other child by her first husband. He enlisted in the Mexican War and never returned."

Nancy CALVERT GILES, married a second man, by the name of George FOSTER. They had two children, William and Giles FOSTER of Marion, Ohio. It is understood that John CALVERT was never married. William Foster's grandfather, Francis CALVERT had two sons - their names were JOhn and Francis. One child called after himself, and the other after his brother John of Baltimore.

"I, Ettie Postle FOSTER, wrote this as Wm FOSTER told it to me in 1886, shortly after I was married to his son William H. Foster who passed away July 20th, 1912 at Marion, Ohio." signed Ettie Postle FOSTER.