Augusta Louise Foote

Brief Life History of Augusta Louise

When Augusta Louise Foote was born on 7 February 1877, in Newtown Monthly Meeting, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Gideon Foote Jr., was 42 and her mother, Julia A Webb, was 36. She married Frank Augustus Matteson about 1898, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Binghamton, Broome, New York, United States in 1920 and Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1930. She died on 12 June 1949, at the age of 72, and was buried in Johnson City, Broome, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Frank Augustus Matteson
1864–
Augusta Louise Foote
1877–1949
Marriage: about 1898
Leode Augustus Matteson
1899–1986
Truman F. Matteson
1903–1994
Raymond E. Matteson
1906–1987

Sources (13)

  • Augusta Madison, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Augusta Foote - birth: 7 February 1877; Newton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Augusta Louise Foote Matteson, "Find a Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1878

Historical Boundaries: 1878: Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

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.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: from Middle English fot ‘foot’ (Old English fōt), sometimes translated in medieval documents by Latin cum pede ‘with the foot’. Probably a nickname for someone with a deformity of the foot or with large feet.

English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Fot, from Old Norse Fótr, originally a nickname with the same sense as 1 above.

English: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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