Nettie Emline Foster

Brief Life History of Nettie Emline

When Nettie Emline Foster was born on 10 April 1880, in Tennessee, United States, her father, William Taylor Foster, was 30 and her mother, Delia Ann Layman, was 25. She married Pleasant Houston Sutton on 18 December 1905. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Big Creek Township, Newton, Arkansas, United States in 1950. She died on 3 May 1951, in Mount Judea, Newton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mount Judea, Newton, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Pleasant Houston Sutton
1883–1957
Nettie Emline Foster
1880–1951
Marriage: 18 December 1905
Alice Belle " Daisy" Sutton
1906–1928
Zella Sutton
1909–1915
Susie Sutton
1911–1950
Julia Gladys Sutton
1914–2004

Sources (14)

  • Nettie Sutton, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Ples Huston Sutten, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
  • Nettie Foster in entry for P H Sutton, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"

World Events (8)

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.

1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded

The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

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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