This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Foster, Darnold, Rawlins, Schlling, Starks, McWilliams, Athey Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4195 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. February 16, 1899.-- Mrs. Mary E. Foster, wife of Joseph B. Foster, departed this life on Monday, Feb. 13th, at 6:45 p.m., and the funeral services were held at the Baptist church on Tuesday afternoon conducted by Rev. Riches, pastor of the church. Mrs. Foster was born in Barron county, Ky., on June 18, 1827. She lived 24 years in that state, marrying at the age of 23. She afterwards lived 24 years in Marion county, Iowa, and afterwards ten years in Colorado. For the last eleven years she has lived near Sidney. Of the children there are living four sons and three daughters, one son and one daughter having passed away before the mother. With the exception of one daughter who lives in Colorado, all the children, as well as the grandchildren, were in attendance at the funeral Mrs. Foster has been an invalid for some 18 months preceding her death. Rev. Riches improved the occasion by a short address based upon the 15th chapter of 1st Cor. N.B.: Her children were James Allen Foster (married Nancy Alice Shilling), Joseph Foster (married Eleanor Starks), George S. Foster (married Miriam Eliza McWilliams), John W. Foster (married Lavina E. Athey), Miss Julia Ann Foster, and Lucinda Frances (Foster) (Darnold) Rawlins.--W.F.