Iowa
Old Press
FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
Sidney, Fremont Co., Iowa
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.
[transcribed by W.F., June 2006]