Moses Little Foster - Obit

Calhoun Times

January 16th, 1890

DEATH OF MR. M. L. FOSTER

The sudden death of Mr. M.L. Foster which occurred at his residence yesterday morning will be a great surprise to his many friends throughout the county. He has only been sick a day or two, and no serious trouble was apprehended until Tuesday night, when he suddenly grew worse and continued so until his death as above stated, which resulted from heart trouble.

Mr. Foster was about forty-five years old, and leaves a wife and six children to mourn his untimely death. He owned on of the finest farms on the river, and had only moved to town a few weeks ago for the purpose of educating his children.

We are requested to announce that the funeral services will be conducted at his late residence by Rev. T. J. Simmons, and he will be buried to-day at eleven o'clock with masonic honors.

Also published in the Calhoun Times, on January 16th, 1890.

Bretheren; since our last meeting in this our fraternal home, another masonic column has been broken and oneof our number has been summons to lay down the tool of labor and take up the jewel of eternity.

On Wednesday, the 15th last, our Brother M. L. Foster was called from labor to refreshment; he was in the full vigor of his manhood and meridian of life whe the reaper came and with the sycle of time cut him down and gathered him into the archives of the eternal beyond.

Brother Foster was born in Gwinnett County, Georgia, July 7th, 1846 where he lived with his parents until the war. At an early age he volunteered in the services of his county and at the close of the conflict he was paroled an honored Confederate soldier being then not quite 20 years old. He returned to his fathers home in Floyd county, Georgia where he lived until the Fall of 1868, at which time he came to Calhoun, GA and entered the merchantile house of Foster and Harlan as a clerk, in whose employ he remained until the Fall of 1872, at which time he was married to Miss M. A. Pulliam.

After his marriage he choose for his occupation that of a farmer, his almost unparalelled success therein is too well known to us to need comment thereon. He had moved back to Calhoun only about ten days before his death, for the purpose of educating his children. Alas! how brittle is the thread of life.

Brother Foster was a kind and loving husband, a tender and affectionate father, and while we drop a tear of sorrow over his grave we would not forget to extend our sympathy to the widow and orphan children of our departed brother. Into the hands of him who doeth all things well we would commend his loved ones, remembering that it is he who has promised to be husband to the widow and father to the orphans, trusting in his unbounded goodness, we share with them in their sad bereavment.

Our Brother possessed an unusual flow of language, sparkling often with innocent humor and frequently infused with poetic fancy. His social qualities with those who knew him well were most pleasant, he was possessed with an energy both of mind and body that brooked and surmount-...............

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