Foster Headstones

Lilian Webb married Winfred F. Foster in November 1903. She moved to Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, and I haven't been able to find a death date for her. I was messing around on the computer last night, and since I don't have a death date for Lilian Webb/Foster, I searched cemeteries in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. The internet is an amazing and powerful tool. Wow! My Grandma McGuire grew up in Medicine Hat, and the last census record I have for these Fosters is 1916, living in Medicine Hat. Long shot, but there you are. I found a Winfred F. Foster listed in Hillside Cemetery with his burial location listed. Lilian Foster is listed as right next to him. From the cemetery's records, I now have her death date and her burial date. Brilliant. I wanted to go get in a plane and check it out...and then Mackay reminded me that a gal I used to visit teach moved to Medicine Hat! Ah, the joys of Facebook. She went to the cemetery, found the graves, and e-mailed me pictures. What a wonderful world we live in, and a major shout out to Holly for taking the time to go and do this for me. Here are the pictures:

Winfred F. Foster 1878-1934

Lilian Foster 1879-1979

Winfred F. Foster's headstone is raised. Lilian's is right next to him. Their graves are located in the Church of England section of the cemetery. Section 154.


http://www.medicinehat.ca/City%20Government/Departments/Parks%20and%20Outdoor%20Recreation/Hillside%20Cemetery/listing/f.txt
(This is the website for the burial listing at Hillside Cemetery.)


"Because your heart has already been turned, the price may not seem high. You begin by doing simple things. Write down what you already know about your family. You will need to write down the names of parents and their parents with the dates of birth or death or marriage. When you can, you will want to record the places. Some of that you will know from memory. But you can also ask relatives. They may even have some certificates of births, marriages, or deaths. Make copies and organize them. If you learn stories about their lives, write them down and keep them. You are not just gathering names. Those you never met in life will become friends you love. Your heart will be bound to theirs forever.

You can start searching in the first few generations going back in time. From that you will identify many of your ancestors who need your help. Someone in your own ward or branch of the Church has been called to help you prepare those names for the temple. There they can be offered the covenants which will free them from their spirit prisons and bind them in families—your family—forever.

Your opportunities and the obligations they create are remarkable in the whole history of the world. There are more temples across the earth than there have ever been. More people in all the world have felt the Spirit of Elijah move them to record the identities and facts of their ancestors’ lives. There are more resources to search out your ancestors than there have ever been in the history of the world. The Lord has poured out knowledge about how to make that information available worldwide through technology that a few years ago would have seemed a miracle.

With those opportunities there comes greater obligation to keep our trust with the Lord. Where much is given, much is required. 5 After you find the first few generations, the road will become more difficult. The price will become greater. As you go back in time, the records become less complete. As others of your family search out ancestors, you will discover that the ancestor you find has already been offered the full blessings of the temple. Then you will have a difficult and important choice to make. You will be tempted to stop and leave the hard work of finding to others who are more expert or to another time in your life. But you will also feel a tug on your heart to go on in the work, hard as it will be.

As you decide, remember that the names which will be so difficult to find are of real people to whom you owe your existence in this world and whom you will meet again in the spirit world. When you were baptized, your ancestors looked down on you with hope. Perhaps after centuries, they rejoiced to see one of their descendants make a covenant to find them and to offer them freedom. In your reunion, you will see in their eyes either gratitude or terrible disappointment. Their hearts are bound to you. Their hope is in your hands. You will have more than your own strength as you choose to labor on to find them.

Hearts Bound Together-Henry B. Eyring, Liahona 2005