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Individual Record for: Issac Ira Foster (male)

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Isaac Ira Foster, "Ike," the son of Fenner Foster and Julia Ann (Babbit) was born in Iowa and died of a heart attack at age 60. He is buried in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, at Mt. Pleasant, Skamania Co., next to his father Fenner Foster. Ike's paren ts moved from Iowa to Nebraska in 1869 and came to Portland, Oregon in 1870, and shortly after that to Skamania Co. (Fenner Foster, Ike's father, was Skamania Co. Tax Assessor in 1885.)

Ike was in the logging and wood business. Later, with his brother Monta Foster, in the scow business between Cascade Locks and The Dalles. After that he ran a jitney business and skating rink in Stevenson. The Fosters lived at Stevenson, but betwe en 1889 and 1891, while working for the timber industry, Ike and Flora moved to Lewis Co. Washington, then to Seattle and after that to Roy in Pierce Co. Washington. Flora's sister and brother-in-law, Rosa and Daniel Jones, were also living in Ro y at that time.

Ike and Flora Foster began living together about 1885 in a marriage of "common law." They married legally, and supposedly under pressure from the Iman family, after all their eight children had been born.


Ike Foster also married a Myrtle Elizabeth Gould in 1880. Other than the marriage date, place and the census, there is very little for the record concerning Elizabeth Gould. It is probable though that the marriage ended in a quiet divorce. There a ppears to have been no children.

SKAMANIA COUNTY PIONEER, 8 May 1919, obituary, Ira I. Foster, "This community was shocked last Monday morning when it was announced that "Ike" Foster had passed away at the home of his son-in-law, Leo Moore, from an attack of acute indigestion. Su nday evening he left the jitney stand to spend the night at the home of his son-in-law, Leo Moore, and seemed to be in excellent health. After eating a hearty supper he retired, but called his daughter to his bedside a couple of hours later sayin g he did not feel well. He rapidly grew worse and passed away before medical help could be summoned. Isaac I. Foster was born at Tootsboro, Iowa, November 7, 1858, and moved with his parents to Nebraska in 1869, remaining there about a year. The y continued their journey westward and arrived in Portland, Oregon on April 10, 1870, since which time he had made Oregon and Washington his home, following the logging and wood business. For a number of years he was associated with his brother, M onta, in the scow business between Cascade Locks and The Dalles. For several years he was over on the sound in the logging contracting business. For the past few months has been in the jitney business here. "Ike" Foster was a man well known and ha d many friends, and was a staunch friend toward Skamania county and Stevenson. Funeral services are being held here today, and the body will be taken to Mt. Pleasant and laid to rest beside his father. He is survived by his wife, seven children, a nd thirteen grandchildren. The children are Mrs. William Black, of Vancouver, Miss Lenna Foster, of San Francisco, Mrs. J. F. Joyce, of Prairie City, Wash., Mrs. Hattie Smith, of Woods Cross, Utah, Mrs. Leo Moore, Ira and Fenner Foster, of Stevens on. His brother F. F. Foster, lives at Carson. Mrs. A. J. Hull of Colton, California and Mrs. C. J. Moore of Vancouver are his sisters. His many friends extend to the sorrowing wife and bereaved children their heart-felt sympathy in this, their gr eat hour of grief."

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