*Spouse: David H. Fortner (Falkner/Folkner/Faulkner)
Born: Abt. 1815, TN
Died: 10 Jul. 1871
Spouse #1: Anna Jane Vickery (Dickery/Victory)
**Children:
Spouse: Cora
Jefferson REED
Born: 14 May 1866, Rusk Co., TX
Died: 8 August 1955, Ralls, Crosby
Co., TX
Buried: Old Emma Cemetery, Crosby
Co., TX
Father: William H. REED
Mother: Margret BURROW
Children:
2. James
(Jim) FOY
Born 24 April 1890, McKinney, Collin
Co., TX
Married: Unknown
Died: January 1981, Ft. Worth,
TX
Buried Becton Cemetery, Hale Co.,
TX
Spouse: Jennie Kay WHEATLEY
Born 18 September 1891, McKinney,
Collin Co., TX
Died January 1975, Petersburg,
Hale Co., TX
Buried Becton Cemetery, Hale Co.,
TX
Father: Alex Scott (Mat)
WHEATLEY
Mother: Emma Kate HUNN
Children:
4. Maude FOY
Born McKinney, Collin Co., TX
Married W. T. DUNN
5. Elbert FOY
Born 4 June 19_8, McKinney, Collin Co., TX
Died June 1978
6. Minnie FOY
Born McKinney, Collin Co., TX
Married Luther D. RAY
7. Dewey FOY
Born McKinney, Collin Co., TX
Married Earl BRAMLETT
8. Raymond FOY
Born McKinney, Collin Co., TX
Died 24 October 1976, Ralls, Crosby Co., TX
Married Inez Lockridge, 8 February 1939
Children:
2. Nancy Diane FOY, married Felix UPCHURCH April 10, 1965. Child: Christi.
3. Cora Jean FOY, married Gary GARRINGER April 29, 1967.
4. Linda Fay FOY, married Donald BATES June 30, 1970. Children: Donna, Debbie, Dedra, Donald, Deverett.
* Eliza/Louisa Foy married David H. Fortner twice. She married him first on 12 Dec. 1865 in Knox Co., TN under the name of Eliza J. Foy. She then discovered that he was not divorced from his first wife, who had run away with a rebel soldier. She moved out and insisted he get a divorce. Once his divorce was final, on 18 Jan. 1867, she remarried him under the name of Louisa J. Foy. She seems to have gone by the names Eliza and Louisa interchangeably throughout her life.
Marriage records are also extant for a David H. Fortner to Melinda BARNES (27 Aug. 1836 and 29 Aug. 1836 in Knox Co., TN) and to Sarah WHITE (31 Mar. 1834 in Knox Co., TN). I don't know if this is the same David Fortner whom Louisa married. There is some question regarding the lineage of David H. Fortner, Jr. (Louisa's stepson; he gave a deposition on her Civil War Widow's pension claim). There was a claim made by Louisa that David Jr.'s father was actually a man by the last name of FITZGERALD. There is a marriage record for Anna Jane VICTORY to John FITZGERALD dated 23 May 1839. If David Sr. actually married Anna Jane in 1861, as claimed by Louisa, then David Jr. would most likely be her son by a previous marriage or his son by a previous marriage. David Jr. did claim Anna Jane Vickery/Dickery/Victory as his mother. For further information, visit the Faulkner Family Tree.
**All of Louisa's children were illegitimate. She had two living children at the time she married David Fortner, Jim Foy and Obedience Jane Foy. Depositions filed in her application for the Civil War Veteran's pension state that one child was the son of Lt. Col. J. C. Chiles (we believe this was Jim); another child is supposedly the offspring of a merchant in Knoxville by the name of Nelson.
See also: Civil
War Widow's Pension Claim by Louisa J. Fortner