Brief Life History of Mark Ely
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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Family Time Line
Sources (5)
- Mark Ely Foster, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
- Mark Foster, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
Parents and Siblings
1851–1939 Male
1850–1888 Female
Siblings (13)
1874–1958 Male
1875–1878 Male
1875–1947 Male
1876– Female
1877–1877 Female
+8 More Children
World Events (2)
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
Age 1
1876 · The Battle of Little Bighorn
Age 1
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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