Brief Life History of Thomas Elbert
When Thomas Elbert Foster was born on 17 February 1857, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, his father, Peter Ransome Foster Jr., was 31 and his mother, Delilah Catherine Marshall, was 21. He married Susanna Katherine Williams on 19 November 1879, in Newton, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Galena Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 12 November 1933, in Columbus, Cherokee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Columbus Cemetery, Columbus, Cherokee, Kansas, United States.
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Sources (12)
- Tom Foster, "United States Census, 1900"
- Thomas E Foster, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Thomas Elbert Foster, "Find A Grave Index"
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1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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