When Mabelia Bliss Foster was born on 6 April 1828, in Castleton, Rutland, Vermont, United States, her father, Samuel Foster, was 42 and her mother, Clarinda F. Patterson, was 33. She married Dana Russell Fox on 20 November 1851, in Plymouth, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years. She died on 3 October 1914, at the age of 86, and was buried in Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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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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