This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Foster, Nichols, McWilliams, Athey, Darnold, Rawlins, Mason Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4189 Message Board Post: FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. June 28, 1904. "Joe Foster Dead. Died at His Home in Prairie Township. Was an Old Settler. Member of Joe Ross Post."-- Joseph Benjamin Foster died at his home in Prairie township Sunday morning at five o'clock. He has been sick for sometime. He was born in the state of Kentucky Feb. 14, 1830 and was united in marriage to Mary E. Nichols January 9, 1851. To this union nine children were born, five boys and four girls,seven of whom are now living. In 1853 he moved to Iowa from Kentucky and in 1863 he enlisted in Company "A", 33d Iowa Infantry and served to the close of the war. He moved to Colorado in 1874 remaining there until 1884 when he returned to Iowa and located in Fremont county which has been his home since. He was a man of strong convictions but rather rough in his address, but withall an honorable man. He made his home with his son Joe, Jr. The funeral was held from the Baptist church in Sidney on Monday morning at eleven o';clock, conducted by Rev. O.W. Lippincott. He took for the basis of his text a portion of scripture found in Job 14:14. Deceased was a member of the Joe Ross Post No. 209, G. A. R., of Sidney. A number of his comrades attended the funeral in a body, and the pall bearers were the sons of veterans. Burial took place in the Sidney cemetery. N.B.: His children were (1) James Allen Foster, d. Feb . 28, 1940; (2) Joseph Foster, Junior, d. 1951; (3) George E. Foster who married Eliza McWilliams of Lacy Grove; (4) John W. Foster, d. Oct. 15, 1922, who married Lavina E. Athey; (5) Julia Ann Foster who died unmarried on Feb. 24, 1947; (6) Lucinda Frances (Foster) (Darnold) Rawlins, who died Jan. 8, 1927; (7)Nancy Mason who lived in Jamestown, Colorado.--W.F.