Brief Life History of Sarah Louise
When Sarah Louise Foss was born on 3 August 1843, in Hiram, Oxford, Maine, United States, her father, Foxwell Cutts Foss, was 31 and her mother, Sarah P. Webster, was 28. She married Lorenzo William T Davis on 2 October 1861, in Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Saco, York, Maine, United States in 1870. She died on 3 October 1877, in Maine, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Biddeford, York, Maine, United States.
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Sources (19)
- Sarah L Davis in household of Foxwell C Foss, "United States Census, 1870"
- Sarah L Foss in household of Foxwell C Foss, "United States Census, 1850"
- Louisa Foss in entry for Mark C. Davis and Delia Grady, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
Spouse and Children
1837–1920 Male
1843–1877 Female
Children (6)
1867– Female
1869–1877 Male
1870– Male
1872– Male
1874–1910 Male
+1 More Child
Parents and Siblings
1812–1894 Male
1815–1871 Female
Siblings (11)
1836–1866 Male
1839–1907 Female
1841–1849 Male
1843–1877 Female
1845–1873 Male
+6 More Children
World Events (6)
1846
Age 3
1851 · First State to Attempt Prohibition
Age 8
1863
Age 20
Name Meaning
English: either topographic name from Middle English foss ‘ditch’ (from Old English foss ‘ditch’, Latin fossa) or a habitational name from one or more of the many places so named, such as Voss in Plympton Saint Mary and Great Fossend in Burlescombe (both Devon), the River Foss (North Yorkshire), Foss Beck (East Yorkshire), and the Fosse Way, a Roman road running between Lincoln (Lincolnshire) and Axminster (Devon) via Leicester (Leicestershire), Cirencester (Gloucestershire), and Bath (Somerset), named in the Old English period from the ditch that ran alongside it.
Danish: from fos, vos ‘fox’, applied as a nickname for a sly or cunning person, or as a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a fox.
Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named from Old Norse fors ‘waterfall’, examples of which are found throughout Norway.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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