[1] He married young, but his wife died prior to his emigration to the United States in August 1836.

[1] Foley regularly travelled to New York City to procure goods for his clothing and linen-goods business, often leaving his store in the hands of friends (such as John Riordan) while he was away.

[1] In the Civil War, he was listed as captain of Company A, First Regiment of Georgia Volunteer Infantry Army of an earlier version of the Tennessee State Guard,[2] in the Roster of the Confederate soldiers of Georgia 1861–1865 via the pages of the 14 September 1861 edition of Savannah's Daily Morning News.

[1] After the war, Foley resumed his merchant trade with a liquor store at 199 Bay Street, near the Savannah waterfront.

[1] In 1874, he purchased from Thomas R. Mills lot number 20 in Savannah's Trustees' Garden Ward and had built the property at today's 52–56 East Broad Street.

His nephew, Dr Thomas McCoaith Foley, was a surgeon on the Monarch Line of merchant steamships.

[1] His funeral was held the following day at his 37 York Street home, officiated by Reverend Thomas Boon, rector of Savannah's Christ Church.