This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Foster, Shilling, Mortimore, Baker, Cook, Hanisen, Martin, Nichols,Roberts, Van Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4188 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. March 7, 1940. "Obituary of James Allen Foster".-- Funeral services for James Allen Foster, who died suddenly last Wednesday evening while attending the wedding supper of his grandson, Millard Foster, and bride, after he had attended the wedding at Shenandoah in the afternoon, were held Saturday afternoon from the Crawford Funeral Home. Rev. Lyerla of the Shenandoah Christian church, officiated. Burial was in Sidney cemetery. James Allen Foster was born in Barron county, Kentucky, Oct. 28, 1851, and came to Iowa with his parents at the age of seven years, the family settling in Marion county. He was married at Knoxville on March 18, 1877 to Nancy Alice Shilling. To this union were born six children, four sons and two daughters. One son and one daughter died before their father. Mrs. Foster died April 1, 1929. He is survived by his sons, Jesse of Sidney, Hamilton J. of Farragut and Archie C. of Los Angeles, California; one daughter, Mrs. Lavern Mortimore of Omaha; 17 grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren, one brother and two sisters living in Council Bluffs,one sister at Jamestown, Colo., and one sister of Sidney. Present for his last rites were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Baker of Omaha Mrs. Ella Cook of Council Bluffs Frank Foster of Council Bluffs Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Foster and three sons of Farragut Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Foster and family of Sidney Lee Foster of Shenandoah Mr. and Mrs. Millard Foster of Shenandoah Mr. and Mrs Ray Foster of Shenandoah Mrs. Vida Hanisen of Council Bluffs Miss Martin of Malvern Mr. and Mrs. Everett Mortimore of Omaha Mr. and Mrs. Thad Nichols of Omaha Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roberts of Malvern Mr. and Mrs. Charley Van of Sidney Mrs. Nellie Van (sic) of Hamburg