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Foster Cemetery #2 of 19W
Spivey Mountain, Unicoi County, Tennessee
Surveyed and documented by
Beth Bradford-Pytel
Updated
12/04/23
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Foster Cemetery #2 is located off 19W Spivey
Mountain Road at the foot of Spivey Mountain in Unicoi Co., Tennessee.
Take 19W towards Burnsville, NC; make a right onto Willis Cove Road. This paved road leads steeply
downward towards a meadow and farm on the right. Proceed on road for
about .25 miles passing two modern homes. The pave road ends at the
second home and turns into a gravel road heading upwards on a steep hill
and over a bridge. The small cemetery is located on the right,
centered in a meadow marked with tree and large boxwoods.
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  1. FOSTER, Dolphus
Brownlow Sr.
b. March 8, 1890 - d. June 22, 1980
[s/o David Franklin Foster and Leanner Elvira
Hensley
buried
Foster
Cem #3; married Minta Jane Hensley on August 23, 1920 in
Unicoi Co., TN.
NOTE: Also known as Adolphus, he lived with
his parents up to being inducted into the World War serving as
Pvt., Co. E., 16th Infantry, 1st Division, Regiment, American Expeditionary
Force (AEF), Army in Europe. After
training for several weeks at Camp Gordon, Georgia (beginning July 24, 1918) he went to
Fort Dix, New Jersey to in-process and thereafter took a ship out of the port of
New York to France. When the War was over on November 11, 1918, he was
stationed in Coblenz, Germany and wrote a letter to his brother-in-law Howell
Hensley. When he returned from the War, he went back to Spivey and
married Minta Jane Hensley in 1920 and they had 3 children. Minta died at
age 34 from Typhoid Fever in a hospital in Johnson City, TN. Dolphus
was left to raise his 3 his small children with the help of
his 72 year old aunt Matilda Foster-Hensley
(sister of David Franklin Foster; widow of Joseph C. Hensley) as noted in the
1930 census. During the early 1950's Dolphus went out to Oregon to visit
with a relative and received his social security number.
MARRIAGE CERT
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  PHOTOS:
Above Dolphus with his suitcase leaving for
Camp Gordon, Chamblee
GA in July 1918. Left photo, Private Dolphus Foster in uniform ready
for deployment to France, 1918. Right - Dolphus sitting with
fellow soldier probably taken in Germany 1919 --- courtesy of Katie
Johnson.
WW1 REGISTRATION
INDUCTED INTO SERVICE
LETTER TO
HOWELL HENSLEY
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 2. FOSTER, Minta Jane HENSLEY
b. March 13, 1895 - d. July 30, 1929
Mother of three children, She welcomed death
as the fruition
of her eternal hopes
[w/o Dolphus #1;
d/o William Garrison & Lucinda Hensley
buried
Hensley Cem #3;
children: Dolphus B. #3, Ted #6,
and Audrey]
NOTE:
Per Tennessee State Death record #23597, she died 8:30 p.m. of Typhoid
Fever contributed by peritonitis in Johnson City, TN. Most likely
she was treated at the hospital there and died. Her body was
brought back to Spivey and the certificate notes she was buried at
"Clear Branch".
DEATH CERT
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  3. FOSTER, Dolphus Brownlow Jr.
b. June 20, 1921 - d. June 1977
Pvt. US Army WW II
[s/o Dolphus B. Sr. and Minta Jane Hensley #1/2]
NOTE:
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 Photo- Minta Jane pregnant w/ Audrey
and with children [l-r] Dolphus Jr. and Ted
(light hair).; circa 1928
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 4. FOSTER, Rickie
b/d.
January 20, 1959
[s/o Ted and Vaughtie]
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 5. FOSTER, Johnnie Lawrence
b. ? -
d. August 10, 1947 [infant]
[s/o Audrey]
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 6a. FOSTER,
Ted
b. March 1, 1925 - d. December 14, 1998
[s/o Dolphus B. #1 and Minta Jane Hensley #2]
OBITUARY
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 6b. FOSTER, Vaughtie
Alice
b. Oct. 9, 1918 - d. February 20, 1990
[w/o Ted Foster]
Married - November 2, 1946
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