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FOGGY, ANDREW, farmer and stock-grower, Sec. 21; P. O. West Point; born in Tyler Co., Va., 1830, and was 6 years of age when he was brought by his parents to Lee Co.; remained with them until their death, and with the exception of three trips across the plains, has passed his life thus far in Lee Co., owning and occupying the farm which his father located in 1836, consisting of 247 acres of land, now valued at $50 per acre. Mr. Foggy lived the life of a bachelor until November, 1871, when he married Eliza, daughter of John and Eliza Cooper, nee Deane, natives of Ireland; she was the youngest daughter of a family of fifteen children, and was born in Dublin, Ireland, Nov. 8, 1845; when 3 years of age, her parents emigrated to America, first settling in Burlington, where her mother died February, 1861; her father is now an extensive farmer and railroad man of Lomax, Henderson Co., Ill.; they have two children — John C., born Feb. 13, 1873, and Esther L., born Jan. 1, 1875; Democrat.