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Surnames: DOWDEN, FOSTER, MARTIN, STANCOMB
Classification: Obituary
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, May 18, 1916, Volume
XXXIX, Number 27, Page 3, Column 5, “Mrs. Milt Foster Died Last Friday.” [Transcribed on
September 24, 2005 by RLJ from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the
Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.]
Mrs. Sarah E. FOSTER, wife of W. M. FOSTER, died at her home in the south part of town
last Friday morning, May 12, after a short illness of a serious attack of asthma, aged
forty-four years two months and twenty-four days.
She was the daughter of William DOWDEN, of Bloomfield.
At the age of sixteen years she was married to W. M. FOSTER, to which union four children
were born—three girls and one boy, the oldest and youngest of whom preceded their mother
to the home eternal. The remaining children are Mrs. Mose STANCOMBE, and Miss Lora
FOSTER, who with the husband, father and two grandchildren mourn the loss of a devoted
wife, mother and daughter.
She is also survived by three brothers and one sister—Joseph, Homer and Francis DOWDEN
and Mrs. Lora MARTIN.
About nine years ago she became a member of the Antioch Christian church in Taylor
Township.
She was a loyal neighbor and friend to everyone who came in touch with her. Many are her
friends who mourn her departure to the life beyond.
The funeral services were conducted at the family home last Sunday at 2 p.m. by Rev.
Merritt OWEN, of the Christian Church, after which the interment was at Grand View
Cemetery.
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Link to the Obituary of her father, William DOWDEN [1843IN—1918IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/admin.message/rw/localities.northam.usa...
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Link to the Obituary of her mother, Mary M. (GRAHAM) DOWDEN [1845IN—1910IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/admin.message/rw/localities.northam.usa...
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NOTES—RLJ: INDEX TO MARRIAGE RECORDS IN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1939, WPA, Index Page 285
& 286: FOSTER, William M. to Sarah E. DOWDEN, 1 Oct 1887, Book M, Page 321; FOSTER,
Carrie E. to Moses A. STANCOMB, 27 Feb 1909, Book S, Page 48. (2) GRANDVIEW CEMETERY,
RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1898—1983, 1983, G.C.H.S., Page 51: FOSTER,
Milton, 8 Dec 1868—17 Mar 1950; FOSTER, Sarah E., 18 Feb 1872—12 May 1916, {No stone
marker; 2 urns with flowers mark the graves.}