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History of Mercer and Henderson Counties Illinois
page 728
Robert Foster is a son of Robert and Margaret (Nickson) Foster. He was born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1820, and was reared on a farm, and at the same time receiving a good education. On March 17, 1845, with his brother John and othres of his fathers family he left his native home for America, and about May 1 of the same year arrived in Rock Island, Illinois. The fisrt summer was spent by himworking in a brick-yard at Rock Island, while John worked his first season in the Preemption township for John Whitsitt, Esq. Thus they made their start "slow but sure." The brothers finally purchased land in section 3, in Preemption township, where robert still lives, and where john lived till the time of his death. Dec 30, 1881, in the seventieth year of his age. He was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which he gave liberally of his means, making it a point to give annually fifty dollars toward the support of the church he was a member. Some years before his death he gave a house and lot in Rock Island to the Methodist Episcopal Church there to be used as parsonage., and a short time previous to his death he willed the missionary society of Rock Island property to the value of $2000, the proceeds of which is to be used in foreign missionary work, and during the last year of his life he contributed $100 to the missionary fund. In 1859 Robert was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Kennedy, a native of County Fermanagh Ireland, by whom he was the father of twelve children, seven of whom are now living:Matilda, John, William, Walter, Sarah J., Abba M., and Robert D.. The oldest daughter, aged twenty years, and the third son, aged fifteen years, fell victims to the dread scourge diptheria, as well as did some of his family in the younger years. Mr. Foster and his wife are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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