Career
Her family moved to Albany in 1836. She preached as an itinerant minister and Holiness evangelist for over 50 years. Her life is recounted in her autobiography, A Brand Plucked from the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch.
Most of her life she faced discrimination and hardships due to her gender, race and spirituality.
She found creative outlets for her spiritual calling and was eventually well received by both the black and white communities. Foote died in November 1901.
She was living with Bishop Walters’s family when she died. She was buried on Bishop Walters’s family plot in the Cypress Hill Cemetery in Brooklyn on Jamaica Avenue, although there is no headstone.
She was, Bishop Walters wrote, a "renowned woman evangelist." Foote, J. (1879) A Brand Plucked from the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch.
Cleveland: Lauer & Yost.
