Brief Life History of Martha Rebecca
When Martha Rebecca Foster was born on 22 February 1843, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Stewart Foster, was 24 and her mother, Rebecca Jane Garber, was 19. She married George Edward Harvey on 25 December 1860, in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 11 daughters. She lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 3 July 1926, in Parkesburg, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Martha Foster in household of Foster, "United States Census, 1870"
- Martha, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906"
- Martha Harvey, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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