When Eliza Arnette Foster was born on 13 November 1841, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, her father, George Foster, was 31 and her mother, Jane McCullough, was 22. She married Benjamin Cluff on 20 February 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 5 September 1880, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Daniel, Wasatch, 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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