Fidelia (Young) Foster (1831 - 1875)

Born 20 May 1831 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Franklin Foster — married 16 Feb 1870 (to 8 Mar 1875) in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Died 8 Mar 1875 at age 43 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Biography

Fidelia, daughter of Charles and Dolly (Pratt) Young, was born at Weymouth, MA on May 20, 1831 and baptized there on April 6, 1832. She married Robert Franklin Foster, son of Robert and Elizabeth W. Foster, on February 16, 1870 at Boston, MA. Her husband was born ca. 1792 at Portsmouth, NH. Fidelia died of Bronchitis at Boston, MA on March 8, 1875 and is buried at Union Cemetery at Scituate, MA. No record of children found.

Sources

• Vital Records of Scituate Massachusetts to the year 1850, three volumes, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909), 1:421 (birth recorded from gravestone)

• Vital Records of Weymouth Massachusetts to the year 1850, two volumes, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910), 1:358 (baptism)

• United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD9Q-9Y4 : 9 November 2014), Fidelia Young in household of William Young, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; citing family 100, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• Massachusetts State Census, 1855, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ4C-2PT : 15 November 2014), Fidelia M Young in household of William Young, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 953,957.

• United States Census, 1860, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXRK-RZJ : 30 December 2015), Fidelia Young in entry for Squire J Allen, 1860., Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Massachusetts State Census, 1865, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQZM-9YG : 15 November 2014), Fidelia Young in household of William Young, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 954,578.

• United States Census, 1870, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD3L-9CR : 17 October 2014), Fidelia Foster in household of C D Pratt, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 242, family 1805, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,142., Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Ancestry.com, database on-line, Provo, UT, USA, 2011), (death and burial)

• Find A Grave, Memorial #166857742