Franklin Pierce Forster, son of Henry Moore Forster and Mary Jane Kirkland Forster, at the age of 4. He had one living sister, Elizabeth Charity Forster [George]. He was born Feb. 9,1866, in Winterset, Iowa. The Forster family moved to Valley View, Texas, and then in the fall of 1872 or early 1873, the Forsters sold their farm and began a covered wagon trip to the west.