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    Isabella Poteat

    Female 1902 - 1990  (87 years)


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    • Name Isabella Poteat  [1
      Born 13 Jul 1902  Caswell County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
      Gender Female 
      Died 11 Jan 1990  Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Buried First Baptist Church of Yanceyville (Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina) Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Notes 
      • Isabella Poteat (1902-1990)

        Isabella Poteat Foster (1902-1990)

        Foster Family

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        Second Photograph (left-to-right):

        Front Row: Louis Walker Poteat (1898-1971); Robert Linwood Poteat (1909-1982); Erma Minerva Poteat Conner (1906-).

        Middle Row: William Banks Poteat (1900-1967); Albert Lindsay Poteat (1865-1929); Minerva Ann Fitch Poteat (1873-1943); Isabella Poteat Foster (1902-1990).

        Back Row: George Albert Poteat (1894-1947); Cornelia Elizabeth Poteat Davis (1896-); Frances Lindsey Poteat Ebbs (1892-1969).

        Additional children of Albert Lindsey Poteat and Minerva Ann Fitch Poteat not shown: Fletcher Fitch Poteat (1904-1969); Walter E. Poteat (c.1910-); John Clay Poteat (1912-1982); Mary Moye Poteat Cheek (1917-2000).
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        Bella Poteat Foster says she doesn't know why the Gillespie school was discontinued but it was where she went the first year. Miss Gertie Jones of Yanceyville remembers that when she was six around the turn of the century she went to Gillespie's and thinks there got to be more families living toward Yanceyville and that the New Hope School took over those to the east. Bella says her father gave the timber for the building described in Caswell's Architectural Inventory as "Small, gable-front building with overhanging eaves, single front panelled door. Originally served as a one room school."

        Source: History of the Poteat One-Room School (Caswell County, North Carolina.

        See: 1910 US Census (Dan River Township, Caswell County, North Carolina).

        1930 US Census
        Name: Isabella Foster
        Home in 1930: Yanceyville, Caswell, North Carolina
        Age: 27
        Estimated Birth Year: abt 1903
        Relation to Head of House: Wife
        Spouses's Name: Ernest
        Household Members: Name Age
        Ernest Foster 31
        Isabella Foster 27
        James Foster 9
        Richard M Foster 7
        Virginia Dorris Foster 5
        Lillie Aner Foster 3
        Bettie Jane Foster 8/12

        Death Record
        Name: Isabella Foster
        Death Date: 11 Jan 1990
        Death City: Winston-Salem
        Death County: Forsyth
        Death State: North Carolina
        Death Age: 87
        Burial Location: Burial in state
        Birth Date: 13 Jul 1902
        Birth Location: North Carolina
        Residence City: Winston-Salem
        Residence County: Forsyth
        Residence State: North Carolina
        Father: Poteat
        Gender: Female
        Race: White
        Marital Status: Widowed
        Social Security Number: 239061553
        Autopsy: No
        Institution: General Hospital
        Attendant: Physician
        Source: Ancestry.com. North Carolina Death Collection, 1908-1996 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005
      Person ID I25612  Devin Timber
      Last Modified 17 Jan 2012 

      Father Albert Lindsey Poteat,   b. 01 Apr 1865,   d. 12 Jul 1929  (Age 64 years) 
      Relationship Natural 
      Mother Minerva Ann Fitch,   b. 07 Jul 1873, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Aug 1943  (Age 70 years) 
      Relationship Natural 
      Married 05 Mar 1890  [1
      Family ID F10170  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Ernest Osber Foster,   b. 01 May 1899, Caswell County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 02 Mar 1969, Caswell County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years) 
      Married 30 Nov 1919  Reidsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
      Children 
       1. James Ernest Foster,   b. 30 Aug 1920, Caswell County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Jan 2011, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years)  [Natural]
       2. Richard Malloy Foster,   b. 25 Sep 1922, Caswell County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Jan 2008, Lynchburg, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)  [Natural]
      Family ID F8654  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Sources 
      1. Details: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 435-436 (Article #568, ".