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opinions but deeply spiritual. He left the Christian denomination and was ordained

a priest in the Episcopal Church in St Louis. Later in life he entered the Roman
Catholic Church. His funeral was held at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Louis.

JAMES OLIVER FOY (1852-1918)

JAMES OLIVER FOY was a great grandson of JAMES FOY SR. When he was four

years old his father, Colonial CHARLES HENRY FOY died. His mother died when
he was eleven. Following the death of his parents he lived with an uncle, THOMAS
D. FOY of New Bern, N.C. At an early age he decided upon journalism as a
profession. In 1886 he purchased the Twin City Daily newspaper in Winston, N.C.
In 1890 he purchased the Winston Sentinel, a paper published weekly which he ran
in connection with his daily paper. He later consolidated the two and called his
establishment Twin City Daily Sentinel.

In 1882 he sold the Twin City Daily Sentinel and from that time on he purchased
several other newspaper concerns which had not been successful. He turned them all
into profit making businesses and sold each in turn. He operated newspapers in
Shelby, Wilson, Hickory and Rocky Mount, N.C.

JAMES MADISON FOY (1832-1910)

Remember JAMES MADISON FOY SR who moved to Sweetwater, Texas and
whose family members still live in Texas? Part of his story is told in Chapter 15 page
14 of this book.

JAMES MADISON FOY SR was the son of HIRAM WASHINGTON FOY and
Susannah Westbrook Foy. HIRAM was a son of JAMES FOY SR, thus a brother to
LEWIS FOY in the Cisco Clan line.

JAMES MADISON enlisted on May 14, 1862 as a private in Company A, 5 th
rd
Regiment, North Carolina Calvary, 63 State Troops of the Confederate States of
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