William Forster was a preacher, Quaker elder and a fervent abolitionist. He was an early member of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839. It was William and Stephen Grellet who introduc
William between two fellow abolitionists (George Stacey and William Morgan) in a detail from a painting.
Forster's grave in 2008 behind the Friends Meeting house in Friendsville.