Even while serving during the Civil War, taxes still had to be paid.
This is the 1865 tax assessment of the grandfather, A. D. Foster, of my great-great grandmother, Nettie Ann Boal. His full name is Azariah Doane Foster. He served in Company C of the 63rd Ohio Infantry Regiment. When my great-great grandmother’s parents died, Azariah and his wife took on the task of raising the granddaughters: Jennie, Stella and Nettie. Decades later Stella still used the name Foster as the name of her parents, despite the fact that her birth name was Boal.
A distant cousin has written a book on Azariah’s grandfather, Ichabod. When I get a chance I will be reading it.
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AARON HILL’S NOTEBOOK 