Elmina Olive (Foster) Potts (1873-1940) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Elmina Olive Potts formerly Foster

Born 7 Jul 1873 in Newburg, Iowa

Ancestors

Daughter of Thomas Israel (Forster) Foster and Cordelia A (Sherman) Foster

Sister of Emory Shotwell Foster, Clarence Sherman Foster, Arthur Thomas Foster and Nettie Belle (Foster) Sheley

Wife of Harry L Potts — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

[children unknown]

Died 5 Jan 1940 at age 66 in Wichita, Kansas

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Biography

Elmina 'Mina' was born in 1873. She was the daughter of Thomas Forster and Cordelia Sherman. She passed away in 1940 in Wichita, KS and was buried at Rose Hill, KS. She married late, to Harry Potts, and they lived on the Potts Family Farm at Rose Hill. They had no children. Elmina was a dressmaker before her marriage.

A family postcard verifies her address as Norton, KS in about 1917.

She is buried in the Friends Cemetery, Rose Hill, KS.

Sources

Elizabeth Joyce Hansford and Margaret W. Shapley, "Israel Chapman II & Parthena Pettibone Chapman: Their Ancestors and Descendants", Published by The Authors, 1970.
"Kansas State Census, 1895", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL8V-MZ7C : 12 March 2020), Elmira O Foster in entry for T I Foster, 1895.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2CY-DHY : accessed 21 December 2020), Elmina O Foster in household of Thomas I Foster, Norton Ward 1, Norton, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 110, sheet 3A, family 73, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 449; FHL microfilm 1,374,462.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KNWL-BV6 : accessed 21 December 2020), Harry F Potts, Pleasant, Butler, Kansas, United States; citing ED 31, sheet 6A, line 3, family 116, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 524; FHL microfilm 1,820,524.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X73V-MG9 : accessed 21 December 2020), Harry L Potts, Pleasant Township, Butler, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 35, sheet 4B, line 62, family 95, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 695; FHL microfilm 2,340,430.

DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elmina by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elmina: