When Mark Ely Foster was born on 9 January 1875, in Boone, West Virginia, United States, his father, Mark Foster, was 24 and his mother, Emaline Massey, was 24. He died on 7 December 1878, in Cabin Creek, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 3.
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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