John T McGuire

1930 Census John McGuire 55 years old. Little River, Mississippi, Arkansas.
listed as a cotton farmer.
wife: Lizzie
-Eugene (1916)
-J.T. (1922)
-Charlie (1906)
1920 Census John T McGuire 48 years old. Big Lake, Mississippi, Arkansas
wife: Lizzie
-Susie
-Trulaus
-Charlie
-Elbert
-Eugene
1910 Census John McGuire. 38 years old. Salem, Dunklin, Missouri.
wife: Lizzie
-Susie
-Trules
-Charles

Married October 20, 1900 in Senath, Dunklin, Missouri. (Have Marriage Certificate)

Edwin/Edgar/Edward Foster

1891 Census Edwin Foster: 6 years old. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.
1901 Census Eddie Foster: 16 years old. 7 June 1884. Virden, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.
1911 Census Edgar M Foster: 26 years old. June 1885. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
-wife listed as Jean W. Born April 1888. Canadian.
1916 Census Edward M. Foster: 33 years old.
-wife listed as Jean. Born in Scotland. Immigrated in 1907???
marriage record in 1905

I found a birth record in the Manitoba archives for Edgar Middleton Foster. He was born on June 2, 1885. His mother is listed as Priscilla Taylor. Edgar Middleton Foster is listed as marrying Jean Williamson Clark on August 16, 1905 in Vancouver, B.C. I found Edgar and Jean living in Alberta, Canada in the 1911 census as lodgers. His birthdate is listed as June 1885. In the 1916 census, he is listed as Edward. Jean is his wife. Their nephew is listed as living with them, Frank McDonald (William Franklyn McDonald.)

I also found an immigration record for Edgar Middleton Foster. He is listed on a Seattle passenger and crew list in Dec 1923. He is 38 at the time of emigration, and lists his final destination as Los Angeles, California. He is listed as married, but his wife is not listed with him. The "name of the relative in the country where the alien came from" is listed as his sister Luella McDonald living in Vancouver, B.C.

1930 Census Edgar M. Foster. 44 years old. Listed as emigrating in 1923. Wife is Rene. Two step-children are listed: Bettie and George Sivece. Found death date for Edgar M. Foster. According to the California Death Index, a Edgar M. Foster died on March 1, 1952 in Ventura, California. His mother's maiden name is listed as Brandon....which could possibly be his location of birth? since it was Brandon, Manitoba??? Birthdate according to death certificate is June 7, 1885 in Canada.

A friend in Canada

So, I've known that Thomas John and Mary Foster were buried in the Thornbury-Clarksburg Union Cemetery, but I didn't have any solid dates for them until now. I called the Blue Mountain city hall, and asked for information about the cemetery. They gave me the phone number for Albert Gibson, the caretaker. I called him up and gave him extremely vague dates to try and find the headstone.

Albert managed to find the headstone of their son, John Gibson Foster and his wife Hattie, as well as their baby girl Hattie. He was unable to make out any more information on the headstone; it was just too old. I was happy to have the information, and I thought that was as far as I could go. And then Mr. Gibson called me on Sunday! He just said, "Do you have a pen because I've got some information for you!!"

He had gone back to the cemetery for another try, and put some emery stone on the gravestone to read it better. This is what he found:

In Memory Of:
Rev. John Foster
Died June 25, 1892
Aged 68 and 8 months.
Native of England.

This puts his birthdate around October 1823. On the side of the tombstone, he found:

Mary Foster
Wife of Rev. John Foster
Aged 87 and (unable to make the # of months out)
Native of England.

I was so excited to hear back from Albert, and so grateful that he took the time to go back to the cemetery for a second try!! John and Mary are my great-great-great-great-grandparents. Pretty cool! Now, we just have to break the England barrier.

Thos John and Mary Foster

Thos John and Mary Foster lived in Collingwood, Grey Ontario. They had 5 children. Thos John was a Methodist minister. Thos was born in England around 1823. He lived until at least 1891. Mary was also born in England around 1819. She lived until at least 1891. Last census record lists them living in Thornbury, Ontario, Canada. They are buried in the Thornbury-Clarksburg Union cemetery.

Ann E. Foster

Benjamin Foster
m. Priscilla Taylor (July 22, 1869)
-Herbert
-Luella
-Arthur Charles
-Lillian
-Winfred
-Edward
-Minnie

John Gibson Foster m. Harriett Isaac
(Both buried in Thornbury-Clarksburg Union Cemetery)
-Robert L. Foster
-William C. Foster
-Lorena Foster
-Preston Foster
-Hattie Foster (died 11 months) buried in Thornbury-Clarksburg Union Cemetery

Robert Foster

William Foster

Trying for More-Fosters

I'm trying to look for more information for Winfred's family/brothers and sisters. It's not as easy as it has been for the Webbs. But that's okay-who's up for a challenge?

Benjamin Foster m. Priscilla Taylor (22 July 1869)

Children:
Herbert Foster
Born on September 2, 1871. I found his birth certificate, Herbert Albert Ernest Foster, born in Grey, Ontario, Canada. He married Annie Pudney in Nanaimo, British Columbia on August 10, 1896. They had at least 4 children. Herbert worked as a window trimmer in Nanaimo, B.C

Myrtle Marie Foster b. 8/27/1897 (living with parents as of 1910 census)
-possibly married Jack C. Olsen 7/20/1918
Ivy Stewart Foster b. 11/21/1898 (living with parents as of 1920 census)
Violet Florence Foster b. 7/7/1900 (living with parents as of 1920 census)
Herbert Foster b. 1909 (born in Washington)

They moved to the United States. I found them in the 1910 and the 1920 censuses, living in Spokane, Washington.
Luella Foster
Born July 10, 1872. She was born in Grey, Ontario, Canada. She married Archie McDonald on April 13, 1891. They had at least 3 children. Her husband died in 1913. She is found in Brandon, Manitoba for the 1916 census. Walter is living with her. She is listed as living in Toronto, Canada as of 1917 (found on her sons' enlistment papers.) She is listed as living in Vancouver, Canada according to an emigration record for her brother Edgar Middleton Dec. 1923. She died in Vernon, British Columbia in 1941.

William Franklyn McDonald. b. 10/16/1892
-enlisted in WWI (7/23/1917), ranked as a General, worked as a storekeeper prior
Ernest Foster McDonald b. 5/3/1895
-enlisted in WWI (6/12/1917)
Walter Ed McDonald b. 5/25/1901

Arthur Charles Foster
Born November 22, 1875 in Ontario, Canada. He married Florence Hall McDonald on June 9, 1898 in the Quesnel District, British Columbia. They had at least 5 children.

Cora Thorne Foster 3/9/1899
Henry Foster 8/5/1900
Arthur Albert E Foster 1/24/1903
Dorothy Foster b. Alberta-1905
Stephen Foster b. 1909, U.S.

Moved back to Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Living in Alberta as of the 1916 census, with 5 children.
Winifred F. Foster
Born 1878. Married Lilian Webb Nov. 1903. Had at least 5 children. He lived in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. He died in 1934 and is buried in Hillside Cemetery.

Allan Foster
Izzett Foster
Wynn Edmond Foster
Lillian Foster
Vivian Foster

Lillian Foster
She was born in 1877. Found in 1901 census, living with parents, aged 24. She was married on December s, 1902 in S. Cypress, Manitoba, Canada. She had at least four children.

William Henry Rose (1903-1910)
John Lewis Rose (1904-
Lincoln Rose (1905-1910)
Baby Girl Rose (1924-1924)

She died November 11, 1966.
Delbert Foster

He was born in 1881. He married Margaret Ilene (Maggie) Black on August 15, 1906 in Vancouver, British Columbia. They had at least one daughter. Found in 1911 census. He died January 10, 1955.

Minnie Foster b. 1907

Edwin Foster
Born in 1884.
Minnie Foster
She was born in Feb 1889. She married William Alexander Cox in 1911 in Vancouver, Canada. I found her in the 1911 census for British Columbia living with her husband. A mother-in-law, P.Foster birthdate June 1850 is also listed.

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

Webbs

I have found more children for William and Janet Webb. I have found birth records for each child except for Janet and Mabel. On all of these records, their mother is listed as Janet Allan.

Children:
Janet Blythe Webb (1870-1894)
m. Percival Ty Helton Good (9/2/1891)-Check Marriage Certificate (original)
-Janet B.W. Good b. 8 Dec 1892 (Check Birth Certificates-2114718)
-Arthur Allan Blyth Good b. 19 Jul 1894
Mabel Webb b. 9/11/1871 d. 7/26/1876
William Edmond Webb b. 2/10/1873 d. 12/16/1876
Henrietta Webb (1875-1958)
m. James Edward McKenzie (11/24/1892)
-William E McKenzie
-Victor Christie McKenzie
-Ernest Edmond McKenzie
James Allan Webb b. 2/5/1877 d. 7/14/1881
John Edmund Webb b. 5/18/1878 d.7/3/1881
Lilian Webb b. 10/15/1879 d. 03/24/1979
m. Winifred Foster (11/28/1903)
-Allan Foster
-Izzett Foster
-Wynn Edmund Foster
-Lillian Foster
-Vivian Foster
William Arthur Webb (12/14/1881-1952)
m. Margaret Steele (9/4/1903)
Allan Walter Webb b. 11/7/1883 d. 11/19/1884
Mary Ann Cook Webb b. 8/10/1885 d. 5/4/1886
Annie Margaret Webb 9/2/1887-9/10/1963 (check orig. death certificate)
m. Alexander McCarter??