Brief Life History of Lockie
When Lockie Foster was born on 19 May 1895, in Independence, Arkansas, United States, her father, Joseph F. Foster, was 27 and her mother, Emma Fannie Barrett, was 28. She married Cecil Calvert Burge on 16 November 1912, in Independence, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Gainsboro Township, Independence, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Batesville, Independence, Arkansas, United States in 1910. She died on 29 June 1914, in Independence, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Oaklawn Cemetery, Batesville, Independence, Arkansas, United States.
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- Lockie Foster in household of Joseph Foster, "United States Census, 1910"
- Lockie Foster, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Lockie F. Burge, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
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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