Brief Life History of Ezra Carter
When Ezra Carter Foss was born on 23 June 1833, in Cumberland Center, Cumberland, Cumberland, Maine, United States, his father, Calvin Ira Foss, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Brackett Carter, was 32. He married Emily Mariah Cheney on 19 June 1870, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 3 July 1919, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Farmington City Cemetery, Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Ezra C Foss, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Eyra C Foss, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1850
Azilka Patenia Knapp BIRTH 15 Jan 1850 Farmington, Davis County, Utah, USA DEATH 20 Apr 1850 (aged 3 months) Farmington, Davis County, Utah, USA BURIAL Farmington City Cemetery Farmington, Davis County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 143541689
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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Ezra Carter Foss
Ezra Carter Foss (1833 – 1919) Written by His Daughter, Sadie Foss, October 1922 My father, Ezra Carter Foss, was born at Saco, Maine, June 23, 1833. His father was Calvin Foss and his …
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