When Mary Ellen Foster was born on 24 December 1837, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, her father, George Foster, was 27 and her mother, Jane McCullough, was 18. She married Benjamin Cluff on 28 February 1854, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Timpanogus, Wasatch, Utah, United States in 1880 and Orem, Utah, Utah, United States in 1900. In 1880, at the age of 43, her occupation is listed as keeping house in Utah, United States. She died on 2 November 1907, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesMary Ellen Foster was born December 24, 1837 in Cincinnati, Ohio; she was the daughter of George and Mary Jane McCullough Foster and their second child. Her father lost one eye in a frightful acciden …
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