Kenneth Howard Foster (1935 - 2021)

Born 26 Jan 1935 in Watsonville, Santa Cruz, California, United States

Ancestors

Son of Howard Cornish Foster and Inza Jane Garfield

Died 23 Sep 2021 at age 86 in Redding, Shasta, California, United States

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Biography

Kenneth was born in 1935. He is the son of Howard Foster and Inza Garfield.

Sources

• Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing on Family Tree DNA. Kenneth Foster, FTDNA kit # 593928, and his nephew, Robert Foster, FTDNA kit # 31604, match at a Genetic Distance of 1 on 111 markers, thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is Howard Foster, the father of Kenneth Foster and grandfather of Robert Foster.

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal GEDmatch comparison between Kenneth Foster , GEDmatch kit # TC4677704, and Perry Westmoreland, GEDmatch kit # T406871, (compare kits), his 3rd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are Thomas Westmoreland and Clarissa Johnson, the great great grandparents of both Kenneth Foster and Perry Westmoreland. Predicted relationship from GEDmatch: 3.9, based on sharing 68.6 cM across 6 segments. Kenneth is the son of Howard Foster who is the great grandson of the common ancestors Thomas Westmoreland & Clarissa Johnson.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K963-BPW : 27 July 2019), Kenneth Foster in household of Howard C Foster, Watsonville Judicial Township, Santa Cruz, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 44-40, sheet 13A, line 4, family 311, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 343.