When Eva Averyll Foster was born on 15 March 1900, in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States, her father, Archibald Coleman Foster, was 25 and her mother, Dorotha Ellen Mainard, was 20. She married Charles Paton White on 10 August 1915, in Fruita, Gunnison, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Rogerson Election Precinct, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Arco Grove of the Giants, Humboldt, California, United States in 1954. She died on 30 December 1997, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Restlawn Memorial Gardens, Bannock, Idaho, United States.
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The Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized by Annie Taylor Hyde after she invited a group of fifty-four women to her home to find ways to recognize names and achievements of the men, women and children who were the pioneers. They followed the lead of other national lineage societies, such as the Daughters of the American Revolution. They were legally incorporated in 1925.
Known as the Orpheum Theatre, the Opera House was built in 1890 because there was no play house located in the City. People came from all around to see the shows. When the name was changed to the Orpheum, different shows came about to please the viewers tastes and ideas.
The quarry was originally found by sheepherders and cattlemen as they drove their animals through the area. The Department of Geology at the University of Utah soon visited the area and found 800 fossils of a variety of Dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era. Because of the proximity of the site to Cleveland, Utah, and because most of the expeditions were financed by Malcolm Lloyd, the site was later known as the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry. In later years, Princeton college spent three summers at the site. They collected a total of 1,200 bones, part of which were sent back to the school and mounted to complete a full skeleton of an Allosaurus, Utah’s State Fossil. Over the years, excavations led to the collection of more than 12,000 fossils from the quarry. It was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1965.
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.
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