Mabelia Bliss Foster

Brief Life History of Mabelia Bliss

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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Family Time Line

Dana Russell Fox
1820–1905
Mabelia Bliss Foster
1828–1914
Marriage: 20 November 1851
Lucinda Ardelia Fox
1852–1855
Clara Augusta Fox
1855–1855
Daniel Dana Fox
1856–1920
Henry Foster Fox
1862–1862
Inez Iduma Fox
1864–1919
Russell Fox
1867–1953
Grace Hittie Fox
1872–1894

Sources (50)

  • Mabelia Fox in household of Dana R Fox, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Mabelia B. Foster, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915"
  • Mabelia B Fox, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"

World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1834 · Vermont Anti-Slavery Society is Formed

The Anti-Slavery Society of Vermont was established in 1834. 100 people from different towns were at the first meeting, with the intent to abolish slavery. 

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

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.

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

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