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Show December 12 , 1861. Trwee of Solon Foster ·'a sons stayed 1.n St. Geor·ge , w}·ere tleir escendanta still live--Ch~rles Frankl in Foster, Orson Hyde Poster and ~:; olo n Foster Jr . The oldest son, r~lll lam Riter Fost r, liv ?d J,._n E; ~ l t ake c·.ty lere h '-.s descendants have remaJ ned.. Thore are now over t.ne h, ndred des ce ndants of died from d:tpt.ter .a and e hardohi ps or .1oneer life , ~ n ch~ldhood , ~w forty-two doscendants of ~ olon Foster Jr. all left St . Ge' rge 1 and 1 i vt?: .now ·1 n Ca 1 ifor-ni a near Los Angeles and 1n Cedt-l.r Ct t~, U tah ~ f or th~ -(.os t part . Solan Poster l i ved to ~e e . hty- six 1n ~p1 cons t ari t hard tor , d neer Eh~ pr1vat1 on . He 1a born January 8 , 1811, in Danby, ' ..' O:"t pk:tno Cou;; t , n~w YOl"k, v:here h:!.s fath r &tart d the fi r st tbnne r y about 1810, and d ed March 1? , 1996 , a.t his Dld home ln t. al t L ke C ~ y wher . he 1·1ad been 11. v1 ng ln · h ·1 s old a ge, g o1n~ .o St ·• George only for t~ e war tn "il ~ :tnte Solon was th. Jnly onq of h s f a~tly of ten rrown Eons and da~ghtere tho Jent ~est from upper New York State. Hi s brothers , J osiah Hedees ?omter, of and Rev . ~1 l tu s ?o st ~ r of Towanda, lived near e ch other t n Penns j lvan1a . Josiah manu• factored and soll fanning mills and Jul1u was a Preebyteri n mi nLster . The ot.her three brot:ters , S las H well Post .r , ~ut~ . er ~ ost s r Jr . and Jabez F oster ~ lived i n Warsaw, Ne York , w1ti all the r f:st of the r .mi l y , .including all the sisters, Hetty, -3- |
