When Samuel Foster was born on 20 August 1835, in North Sewickley, Franklin Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Foster, was 53 and his mother, Nancy Smith, was 43. He married Rachel M Wright about 1873, in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in New Sewickley Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1864. He died on 16 June 1913, in Beaver Falls, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Grove Cemetery, New Brighton, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1859: The cemetery was incorporated and dedicated
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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