Private Wiley Wood Foster (1844-1946), the son of John Claiborn Foster, was born in Jasper County, Texas. He married Clarissa Richardson Crockett in 1866 and they has at least three children. Wiley died in Atwell, Callahan County, Texas on October 27, 1946 at the age of 101 years and 10 months.

Wiley was captured in 1863 during the battle at Arkansas Post, Arkansas, and became a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois.

Wiley is the grandson of John Foster of the Stephen F. Austin Colony’s “Old Three-Hundred” (15 July 1824, Fort Bend County; GLO Abstracts, 1838; Ray, 1970). Wiley’s Uncle Ran (Randolph Foster) assisted Austin on excursions into Mexico as a hunter, was “the first of the Three Hundred” (Wharton, 1939:145) and provided food during the “Runaway Scrape” to the Texas Republic Army and other refugees (TX State Handbook).

Wiley is the collateral ancestor of Terry's Texas Rangers Camp 1937 member Charles Harvey.