Elysess Paul Foster (1918)
FOSTER
Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 3/13/2007 at 19:51:05
The Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, January 1, 1919
Page 3, Column 1Peru
After five weeks of prolonged suffering, Paul Foster, the 15 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Foster quietly passed away Saturday at 11 a. m. Burial was held from the home Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev. Peer, after which the remains were laid to rest in the Peru cemetery. The bereaved have the deepest sympathy of this entire community in their sorrowing hours.
__________________________The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, January 8, 1919
Page 1, Column 6Death of Elysas Paul Foster
Elysas Paul Foster of Peru, died Saturday, Dec. 28 (1918) at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Foster of typhoid-pneumonia. The lad would have been 15 years old this month. Funeral services were held Sunday at three o'clock in Peru.
________________________The East Peru Mail
East Peru, Iowa
Friday, January 03, 1919
Page 8, Columns 3 & 4Elysess Paul Foster.
Born Jan. 23d, 1904, died Dec. 28th, 1918, aged 14 years 11 months and 26 days. He was born in Union county, Iowa, and came with his parents to Peru six years ago in March.
Paul joined the M. E. church about 4 years ago and was a faithful member to his church and Sunday School, he was a bright and lovable boy, loved by all who knew him. He will be greatly missed in the school by his school mates as well as by his loved ones, at home. He was very anxious to go on with his school work, but God saw fit to take him to a more beautiful place as he told his mother he was going where grandma was. He said mother you have been as good to me but I cannot stay much longer.
He was so patient and uncomplaining, all through his long tedious illness, never murmuring thru all his suffering. He leaves to mourn his untimely death, his father and mother, three sisters and two brothers, and a host of relatives and friends. The funeral was held at the home Sunday afternoon, conducted by his pastor, Rev. Peer, and the body laid in the Peru cemetery.
East Peru Iowa, Dec. 28th 1918
Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Foster and family. The closing of another year has brought to us another Christmas time with a profound sorrow and it has brought to you and family a bequest of grief with bleeding hearts that time cannot heal. It has taken from our midst one of our best boys, just building into young manhood, a bright intelligent pupil in his first year in the High School. Paul Foster was loved esteemed and highly respected by his school and class mates, and worthy the praises of his instructor and teacher, and when we behold his vacant seat draped in mourning in the school room our eyes become bedimmed with tears of grief and sympathy to those who are nearer and dearer to him and we realize the great loss in the family, home although he is gone from us. Let us be comforted and consoled by a gentle loving hand of the Nazarene who had “led him by the still waters through the shadow of death to that haven of rest where all is joy, and peace and love.
Let us remember Paul Foster with cherished memories of his clean pure life more and more as the years roll by, and be it resolved by all his school and classmates by all the grade teachers and by the Superintendent, that our profound sympathy be extended to Mr. and Mrs. Foster and family. I. W. Gard. Supt. Of Schools.
Those from abroad who attended the funeral of Paul Foster were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kirk, and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sawhill and son, of Des Moines, Earl Foster and family of Martinsdale, Ed. Kirk and family of Truro, Glen Kirk of North Dakota, and Fred Kirk of St. Joe, Mo.
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