When Sarah Elizabeth Foster was born on 1 May 1879, in South River District, Warren, Virginia, United States, her father, Garrett Booten Foster, was 24 and her mother, Nancie Elizabeth Beahm, was 25. She married William Thomas Riley on 20 July 1896, in Rappahannock, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Virginia, United States in 1879 and Wakefield District, Rappahannock, Virginia, United States for about 30 years. She died on 19 May 1958, in Frederick, Virginia, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Flint Hill, Rappahannock, Virginia, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
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