> From: JamesEFosterJr@aol.com > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:55:27 EDT > Subject: Re: [PACEN] 1890-1940, Chester Co, Pa, Rankin and Foster > To: kch423@adelphia.net > > > Hi: > > Many thanks for your reply. This could be my "Mazie". > > Her parents were John Elwood Foster and Jane Black. He was born, probably > in 1843 and maybe in Boston, Mass. After the Civil War he was in Phila. > 1865-1870? and then in Willistown, Chester Co. Pa. where he married Jane 5/4/1870, > who apparently was a local. I have nothing on her background but that she > died 7/13/1879 (born 1843?). They had 6 children: Benjamin B, James William (my > grandfather), Wilhelmina, Mazie, Annie B and Josephine. They were all > "farmed" out after she died and I have been able to track all but Mazie. > > As you can see, I have a few brick walls. Thanks for reading. > > Jim Foster > > > In a message dated 7/27/2005 12:12:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > kch423@adelphia.net writes: > > I found this in 1900 Chester Co, Willistown Twp > > FOSTER, Mary C, servant, Apr 1874, 26, S, b. PA, NY, NY living as a servant > in the home of Wilmer & Sallie COX and children. > > Possibility? Do you know where her parents were born, their names and the > names of her siblings? Sometimes helps finding them > > ---- JamesEFosterJr@aol.com wrote: > > > > Looking for census data on a Samuel Rankin and wife Mazie (or possibly > Mary) > > after 1900 in Pennsylvania. I have no info on when they were married. > > > > Mazie was born Mazie Foster, 4/5/1874 in Chester County. She was still > > living in 1938 when her brother, James died. She may have been living in > the Upper > > Darby area in Philadelphia in the 1930s or earlier. > > > > I have nothing on Samuel Rankin. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jim > > > > >