Patience L. Foss

FemaleJanuary 1828–12 March 1911

Brief Life History of Patience L.

When Patience L. Foss was born in January 1828, in Limington, York, Maine, United States, her father, Nahum Foss, was 28 and her mother, Pamelia M Libby, was 19. She married Calvin A Webster on 14 February 1873, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. She lived in Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1910. She died on 12 March 1911, at the age of 83, and was buried in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States.

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Calvin A Webster
1831–1877
Patience L. Foss
1828–1911
Marriage: 14 February 1873

Sources (8)

  • Patrice L Webster, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Patience L. Foss, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
  • Patience L Foss Webster, "Find A Grave Index"

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  • Marriage
    14 February 1873Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (4)

    World Events (8)

    1830 · The Second Great Awakening

    Age 2

    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.

    1832 · Calais Branch is Chartered

    Age 4

    The State of Maine chartered the Calais Railway in 1832, one of the first railway charters to be granted by the state. Construction was very long, as the project was reorganized, abandoned, transferred to other companies, and extended several times. It was finally completed in 1898.

    1854

    Age 26

    Historical Boundaries: 1854: Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1854: Kansas Territory, United State 1855: Shawnee, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Shawnee, Kansas, United States

    Name Meaning

    English: either topographic name from Middle English foss ‘ditch’ (from Old English foss ‘ditch’, Latin fossa) or a habitational name from one or more of the many places so named, such as Voss in Plympton Saint Mary and Great Fossend in Burlescombe (both Devon), the River Foss (North Yorkshire), Foss Beck (East Yorkshire), and the Fosse Way, a Roman road running between Lincoln (Lincolnshire) and Axminster (Devon) via Leicester (Leicestershire), Cirencester (Gloucestershire), and Bath (Somerset), named in the Old English period from the ditch that ran alongside it.

    Danish: from fos, vos ‘fox’, applied as a nickname for a sly or cunning person, or as a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a fox.

    Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named from Old Norse fors ‘waterfall’, examples of which are found throughout Norway.

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

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