George Foster, Jr.

• Residence: Provo, Utah, Utah Territory, United States - 1860
• Residence: Utah, United States - 1870
• Residence: Franklin, Oneida, Idaho, United States - 1880

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George Foster immigrated from Ireland and became a Utah pioneer. He was the son of George Foster and Mary Wallohene, who was the daughter of Thomas Wallohene and Mary McCullough. Young George was born in Castlederg on the river Derg, Tyrone County, Ireland, August 1810. At the age of 22 in the year 1832, he went to a ship to bid good-bye to a friend who was sailing for America. At sailing time, the friend changed his mind about going. George took his ticket, went to America, never to return to his family or his native land. He married Jane McCullough, 25 July 1835. She was a daughter of Joseph and Mattie (Mary) Hutchinson McCullough. To them were born eight children. Although Jane was born in the same county of Ireland as George, research has not yet discovered whether their families were acquainted at an earlier time.

George was a blacksmith by trade, and owned a foundry in Cincinnati, Ohio. While forging there a piece of hot iron hit one of his eyes, and he lost the sight of that eye. Soon after, he sold the foundry and bought a farm in Ohio. The family was well-to-do financially at that time.

It was while living on the farm in Ohio that George heard the missionaries preach the Restored Gospel, which he embraced in 1842, at Hamilton County, Ohio. It was not until the following year, in September 1843, that he entered the waters of baptism and was confirmed by Elder Andrew Lamoreaux, also was ordained an Elder. This was the time of persecution of the Saints when baptism was prohibited. Because of persecution inflicted upon members of the church, the family was almost without funds or property. They had lived in Illinois on a farm for a while, but had to leave their comfortable home in the dark of the night and they settled in Nauvoo in the spring of 1844. Here George was ordained a Seventy by Elder Roswell Hyde. He served as a guard for the Prophet Joseph Smith.

The family enjoyed living in Nauvoo very much. Mary Ellen Foster writes how they heard the Prophet Joseph Smith "thunder forth the gospel in plainness and convincing argument, as he stood under some trees in a bowery near the Temple."

George and his family were in Nauvoo when the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum were martyred, and went through the trials of expulsion from their beautiful city. George was now only 36 years old when they located in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. George helped erect houses which formed a square, in the center of which the animals were kept, to protect them from the Indians . His wife and children helped dig for suitable roots, which formed part of their diet. One baby, Thomas James, the sixth child was born here in 1847. It was while living here that George and Jane were sealed for time and eternity by Brigham Young.

In 1849 the family crossed the Missouri to Pottawatomie County, Iowa, and built a three room log cabin at Kanesville, now Council Bluffs. At one time when the family was all ill with ague in Kanesville, a mob came to the house with blackened faces and handkerchiefs over their mouths. They threatened to burn down the house and barn if the family didn't leave in 24 hours. Jane commenced to cry, "Oh, George, what shall we do? Where shall we go," she asked, "with our little ones?" "Nowhere," answered George. "We will go nowhere," he said quietly. "They will never molest us." The mob never did come back. George opened up a farm and he helped erect a school house. It was here that he accumulated sufficient means to undertake the long and weary journey across the plains.

In 1852, the family left for the Great Salt Lake Valley with Captain Tidwell's company. George's greatest trial came to him while on this journey. Cholera broke out in the company with which the family was traveling, and Jane, his beloved wife and mother of his eight children, died 10 July 1852, of this dreaded disease at Plum Creek, 350 miles west of the Missouri River. George had to move on with eight motherless children. Jane, the baby, was only four months old. They arrived in Salt Lake City in 1852. After the death of his first wife, Jane, a blow from which he never recovered, George went through life a quiet man. He passed through much affliction.

For years after arriving in Salt Lake, the family experienced all the hardships of early pioneer life. Bread was seldom included in the menu. Thistle and sego roots became the staff of life. Only the four month old baby had milk. George took a cow with him all across the one thousand miles of plains. The milk Old Cherry gave saved the life of his baby daughter, Jenny. The cow lived long after their arrival. She was a pioneer also. George was ordained an High Priest 8 Apr. 1853 by R. Cahoon and G. B. Wallace at Sale Lake City. (Bk F, p. 11)

On 30 Nov. 1858, George Foster was married and sealed in the Endowment House to a young lady from Switzerland, Verena Fischer, daughter of Johann Jakob Fischer and Anna Barbara Schaufelberger. She had formerly been married 26 Nov. 1855, to a German Immigrant, Peter Hofheintz. This turned out to be an unhappy plural marriage, which ended in divorce. One child was born to this couple, Ellen Hofheintz, 17 Dec. 1857, at Salt Lake City, Utah. After Verena married George, he raised Ellen as his own daughter. The family moved to Provo, Utah, where Verena bore three children, two of whom died, the first and third. By 1863, the family was fixed to the pioneer mother. However, since three of the older girls (by the first marriage) were living in Logan, they pulled up stakes and moved to Logan in 1863, and started all over again. Three more children were born here.

In the fall of 1873, they moved to Whitney, Idaho. Joseph, the son by George's first wife, Jane McCullough, had also moved to Whitney prior to this, he being one of the very first permanent settlers in 1869. Joseph and his wife, Clarissa Birdno had only lived here for four years, when she died, leaving two motherless children.

Whitney was still a very primitive pioneer town as the railroad came only to Franklin. These farmers raised only their butter, eggs, and vegetables and a little livestock. They had no irrigation at this time and the Fosters were very instrumental in bringing the essential canals to this valley. The son, George Benjamin (1864) worked to help his father. Winnie Foster Reese writes, "When father was a boy he worked with pick and shovel digging the canal that brought the irrigation water from the canyon. Grandfather was getting along in years and had poor health, so at a very young age, Father had the responsibility of his father's family and farm, being the only son." No doubt the fact that George had pioneered in so many early settlements, Provo, Logan, and now Whitney, contributed to the early decline of his health.

The first community school in Whitney was held in a granary in 1877, in a log cabin owned by Robert Hull. The teacher was Verena Foster, George's daughter, age 16, and she held classes until there was too much snow for the children to attend. The first public schoolhouse was built in 1879. Verena later married Joseph Smith Wright.

George was a devoted husband and father. He was a man of faith and integrity, faithful to every trust, a true Latter Day Saint. He sacrificed much his religion and would cheerfully have laid down his life for the Prophet Joseph Smith. He was a charitable man in his views. He served as ward teacher, but poor health prevented him from participating in much public or church activity after he reached the west. George died at his home in Whitney, Idaho, in 1888 at the age of 78.

It is interesting to note that George did temple work for both the living and the dead, from his youth to his old age. In Nauvoo in 1844, he did baptisms for his father and brothers. (Bk K, p. 114) In the early days it became customary for holders of the priesthood to have women sealed to them, both living and dead, in order to give them a chance for exaltation in life after death. George followed this custom and had several women sealed to him at various times, two of them being his wife's relatives from Switzerland. George, his son Joseph, daughters, Sarah Blair and Mary Ellen Cluff and possibly others did quite a lot of temple work in 1884 and 1885 at Logan for Jane McCullough's ancestors as well as his own.

SOURCE: http://www.ourfamilylegacy.info/files/fostergeorge1810biography.html

This history compiled by Esther M. Wright, 1969, from the following Sources:

1. Idaho State Journal 11 Jan. 1963

2. Cluff Family Journal, published 1899-1904, edited by Harvey Cluff and other members of the Cluff family.

3. Short history of George Foster, compiled by Nettie Jones Phillips, great grand-daughter of George Foster and first wife Jane McCullough.

4. History of a Valley published by Deseret News Publishing Company for the Cache Valley Centennial Commission, 1956, pp. 74, 343.

5. George Foster's personal journal kept by himself, assisted by daughter Sarah Foster Blain as copied by grand-daughter Edna Foster.

6. Information related to grand-daughter Winnie Foster Reese by Verena Fischer.

7. Many other family records and church records.

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HISTORY OF GEORGE FOSTER HISTORY OF GEORGE FOSTER Born in 1810 – by George G.. Foster, a great grandson

George Foster was born in Castlederg, Tyrone County, Ireland, August 15, 1810. George was the son of George Fos

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Invalid baptism temple code: LIV. Invalid baptism temple code: LIV. Blacksmith-Farmer. George Foster was born 10 August 1810 in Castlederg, County of Tyrone, Ireland. (his age was given in the 1880 census as 75, which would have ment he was born in 1805)In 1832 at the age of 22 years he went to a ship to bid goodby to a friend who was sailing to America. At the ship the friend changed his mind. George Foster took his ticket and sailed to America never to return to his native country or family. There is a listing on the 1820-46 index, found George Foster 22 years old, M Farmer, nationality Irish, last permanent residence Ireland US port of entry, NY, vesel Orpheus, port of imbarcation: Liverpool, Arrived: Oct 21 1834. This date would have put his birth date in 1812. He became a blacksmith by trade and after coming to America he lost an eye, being struck by a piece of red hot iron, while he was forging iron. On July 25, 1835 he married Jane McCullough. To them were born 8 children. 1840 Cencus shows the Foster, George in Hamilton County Ohio, township Cycamore. George Foster embraced the LDS Church in 1842 at Hamilton County, Ohio. He was baptized and confirmed by John Lamoreaux. He was ordained an Elder by John Lamoreaux. In the spring of the same year, (1843) the family moved to Nauvoo (Bear Creek). The family was run out of Bear Creek by mob action and they moved from there in 1844 they moved to Nauvoo. George Foster was ordained a seventy by Roswell Hyde in the spring of 1846. Soon afterwards the family moved to Winter Quarters, and in 1848 moved to Kanesville, Potowatamy Ohio. In Kanesville they built a three room log home where they lived for five years. In 1852 he left for Salt Lake City in June of 1852 with the Captain Tidwell Company, arriving on September 15, 1852. The family established themselves in Willow Creek(now Grantsville) and George started hauling freight. Upon arriving at Plum Creek 350 miles west of the Missouri River, which was the cros sing place on the Loup River where there was a US Government Indian camp and where Cholera infection had cause the abandonment of the settlement, on July 10, 1852 his wife Jane died of Cholera. With 8 children he completed the journey across the plains. Jane the baby was four months old. George Foster was a devoted husband and father. After the death of his wife, Jane, a blow from which he never recovered, he went through life a quiet man. He was both father and mother to his bereved children. In April 1858 he buried his son Thomas James. In November 1858 he married Verena Fisher, daughter of Jacob and Anna Barbara Schaufelberger Fisher. To them were born six children. In the year 1870 George married Margaret Schaufelberger, the Aunt of Verena and 2 years older than George. She died in Logan in 1877. In the fall of 1873 George, Verena, and their children moved to Whitney, Idaho where they spent the remainder of their lives. He died at his Whitney home June 1, 1888. He served as ward teacher, but poor health prevented much public activity after he reached the west. He was a charitable man in his views. Member of the Utah Legislature. George did baptisms for the following George Foster Son Mathew Kelley Foster Brother Thomas Foster Brother Joseph Foster did the following Baptisms at the Logan Temple Joseph McCullough, Ireland,G son James McCullough Ireland : Nephew Thomas Waleghene,Tyrone Ireland GGson William Walleghene 3 Cous William Walleghene 2 Cous Guy Bleakley Cousin Shew Bleakley Cousin John Bleakley Cousin John McClarey (McEldowney) Cousin Samuel Mullen Cousin John Mullen Cousin Robert Wilson Cousin James Sherer Jr 2 Cousin Sarah and Mary Ellen did baptisms for the following Margaret Blakely Effie Bleakley Mrs David Blakely Mary Ann Wallinghene Mary Walleghene Mary Ann McCullock Jedd Blair on 3 Feb 1891 did the following bap tisms for friends of George Foster from Tyrone Ireland John Simson, William Carson, John Murry, William Marshall, Charles Kemper, William John Boyd, Charles Calhoun, James Henderson, John Armstrong, Dan Colter, William A. Foster, John Funston, James Funston, William Funston, Henry Funston, George Funston, John Funston, John Armstrong, James Armstrong, John Armstrong Jr. Andrew Armstrong, George Armstrong, Frank Grace, George Grace, Maxwell Green, Edward Gibson, Andrew Fleming George Fosters History Writen in his own hand.: I emmigrated to America in 1832. I was Married to Jane McCullough in 1835 in Cincinnati. She was the Daughter of Joseph McCullough and Mattie Hutchenson. We had 8 Children, Namely, Sarah Jane, Mary Ellen, Margaret Ann, Eliza Arnette, Joseph, Thomas James, Matilda Ruth and Jane. I embraced the Gospel in 1843 in the state of Ohio. I was baptized by John Lamoraux. I was Ordained an Elder by the same. My wife Jane was baptized in March 1843 by Andrew Lamoraux. Confirmed by the same. In the spring of 1842 we moved to Nauvoo. I was ordained a seventy by Roswell Hyde in the spring of 1846. I moved to Winter Quarters the same spring. In 1848 I moved to Potowattamy. In 1852 I left Potawattamy for Salt Lake. My wife Jane died in July 1852. She was sealed to me by President Brigham Young in Winter Quarters. I arrived in Salt Lake City in 1852. My son Thomas James died 1858 September. My wife Jane had 3 Sisters and 1 brother, namely James, Jueda, Eliza, Mary Ann.

George FOSTER had a total of six (6) wiv

George FOSTER had a total of six (6) wives. Name may be George FOSTER Jr. Baptism may be 6 Feb.

Children No.s 6 have been added to this

Children No.s 6 have been added to this sheet by Mrs. Waldo Cluff on 30 Nov 1966. Adjustments will be made in arease marked "X". George Foster

George Foster was our ancestor who immigrated from Ireland and became a Utah pioneer. He was the son of George Foster and Mary Wallohene, who was the daughter of Thomas Wallohene and Mary McCullough

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George Foster was born in Ireland and came to America in 1832. In 1835 he married Jane McCullough who also was from Ireland. They joined the Church and moved to Nauvoo in the spring of 1843 with their four children. George served in the Nauvoo Legion. Their son was born in Nauvoo three months after Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed, they named him Joseph Hyrum Foster. They fled Nauvoo with the saints in 1846. George and Jane were sealed together in Winter Quarters by Brigham Young. In 1852 while the family was journeying to Salt Lake City, tragedy struck. Jane died of cholera 35 miles west of the Missouri River, leaving George to care for their 8 children. They ultimately settled in Idaho, where he died in 1888. - written by Steve Foster Gilliland George Foster (1810-1888) (The following is copied from an original in his good hand) I immigrated to America in 1832. I was married to Jane McCullough in 1835, in Cincinnati. She was a daughter of Joseph McCullough and Mattie Hutchison.

We had eight children namely, Sarah Jane, Mar George Foster Jr. written by Winnie Foster (from daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum) George Foster Jr. was born August 1810 in Castlederg on the River Derg, Tyrone County, Ireland. He was the son of George Foster Sr. and Mary Wollehene – the daughter of Thomas Wollehene and Mary McCu

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Hi Priest George Foster by Esther M. Wright This history compiled by Esther M. Wright, 1969, from the following Sources:

1. Idaho State Journal 11 Jan. 1963 2. Cluff Family Journal, published 1899-1904, edited by Harvey Cluff and other mem

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!1. From a printed biography in posession of Morgan J. Ririe, written by George Foster (his wife is Joyce [Cameron], of Lola Isabelle [Burnett] Cameron, of Agnes [Ririe] Burnett, of James Ririe,) of 4362 Bruce Circle, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84109, about 1992. HISTORY OF GEORGE FOSTER HISTORY OF GEORGE FOSTER Born in 1810 – by George G.. Foster, a great grandson George Foster was born in Castlederg, Tyrone County, Ireland, August 15, 1810. George was the son of George Foster and Ma

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Line 916 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: BAPL SEP 1842 6 FEB 1969 History of George Foster, Jr. (1810-1888) (This history is found on pp. 90-94 of Millie Foster Cheesman's family history book, Cheessman-Foster Family As of October 2016 It is taken from a history compiled by Esther M. Wright, 1969.)

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Verena or Farana/Fischer * 30 Nov 1858

Verena or Farana/Fischer * 30 Nov 1858

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Description: John Tidwell Company

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See attached census record.

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according to Ancesty.com

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1880 US Census

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9GFK-1YB Geo Foster in entry for Margaret Ann Cluff, "Utah, Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1937" "Utah, Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1937," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDW-R182 : 26 February 2016), Geo Foster in entry for Margaret Ann Cluff, Sandwich Islands; records extracted by FamilySe https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDW-R182

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