Mary Virginia Doolen

Brief Life History of Mary Virginia

When Mary Virginia Doolen was born on 2 November 1847, in Foster Township, Marion, Illinois, United States, her father, Daniel Doolen Jr., was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Mahon, was 30. She married Andrew Jackson Foster on 4 October 1866, in Marion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Marion, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 31 October 1934, in Kinmundy, Marion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Kinmundy, Marion, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Andrew Jackson Foster
1839–1932
Mary Virginia Doolen
1847–1934
Marriage: 4 October 1866
Elmer F. Foster
1867–1880
Emma B. Foster
1869–1870
Anna Florence Foster
1871–1970
Marrietta Foster
1873–
Louis Washington Foster
1875–1924
Homer Wilson Foster
1877–1918
Orville Clement Foster
1882–1948
Clyde Wilber Foster
1887–1975

Sources (21)

  • Mary V Foster in household of Andrew G Foster, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Mary Virginia Foster, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Mary V Doolin, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

World Events (8)

1855

Historical Boundaries: 1855: Marion, Illinois, United States

1863

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

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

Irish: variant of Doolin 1 and 2.

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

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