Elizabeth Davis
1858 - 1915 (56 years)
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Name Elizabeth Davis Born 13 Nov 1858 Davis County, Indiana 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Female Census 1900 Grantsville Township, Linn County, Missouri Census 1910 Grantsville Township, Linn County, Missouri Died 6 Jan 1915 Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri [1, 2, 3] - Missouri death certificate
https://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1915/1915_00001066.PDF
Buried 7 Jan 1915 Grantsville Cemetery, Purdin, Linn County, Missouri [1, 2, 3] - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150324981/elizabeth-j_-fosher
Wife of Jacob L. Fosher.
Person ID I2882 Hedges Last Modified 1 Oct 2023
Family Jacob Lemuel Fosher, b. 12 Mar 1854, Indiana , d. 22 Apr 1900, Linn County, Missouri (Age 46 years) Married Sep 1883 [3] Children 1. Gertrude Fosher, b. 29 May 1887, Missouri , d. 23 Feb 1986 (Age 98 years)Last Modified 1 Oct 2023 Family ID F1307 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Missouri death certificate
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Born - 13 Nov 1858 - Davis County, Indiana 
Census - 1900 - Grantsville Township, Linn County, Missouri Census - 1910 - Grantsville Township, Linn County, Missouri 
Died - 6 Jan 1915 - Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri 
Buried - 7 Jan 1915 - Grantsville Cemetery, Purdin, Linn County, Missouri = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Headstones Fosher, Jacob L, Elizabeth J.
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Notes - Elizabeth J. Fosher, widow of the late Jacob L. Fosher, whose death occurred at Kansas City, where she had gone for a surgical operation, January 6th, a brief notice of which appeared in last week’s Gazette, was born in Davis County, Indiana, October 13, 1858, and came with her father’s family to Linn county in 1878 and had made her home in Grantsville township continuously since.
She was married to Jacob L. Fosher, a member of the well known Linn county Fosher family, September 1883, who, at the time of his death April 22, 1900, owned and operated the farm, once owned by his father, residing on the Fosher homestead, a landmark on the Brookfield and Grantsville road.
Mrs. Fosher was a most capable woman, and after the death of her husband, managed the farm successfully.
Her surviving relatives are four children, Mrs. Leona D. Johnson, Mrs. Gertrude Blackburn and Katharine and William Ray Fosher; her mother, Mrs. M.E. Davis; three sisters, Mrs. W.M. Bumgarner, Mrs. C.S. Hale and Miss Glen Davis who reside in Purdin, and one brother, W.A. Davis, of Grantsville township.
She had many warm friends in the community in which she had lived so long, by whom she was loved and respected for her sweet christian character.
The funeral services were held at the Grantsville church, Saturday, January 9th, the services conducted by Elder Edwards, of Chillicothe, and the body consigned to the tomb in Grantsville cemetery to await the resurrection morn.
Pallbearers were J.W. Blackburn, A.N. Russell, F.O. Blunt, C.B. McCollum, Wm. Brown and J.J. Burns.
Brookfield Gazette, Brookfield, Missouri. Saturday, 16 January 1915.
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- Elizabeth J. Fosher, widow of the late Jacob L. Fosher, whose death occurred at Kansas City, where she had gone for a surgical operation, January 6th, a brief notice of which appeared in last week’s Gazette, was born in Davis County, Indiana, October 13, 1858, and came with her father’s family to Linn county in 1878 and had made her home in Grantsville township continuously since.
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