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Robert A. Foss

BIRTH: 14 Sep 1881, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts
DEATH: 28 Nov 1959
BURIAL: Hamilton, Essex, Massachusetts
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Father: Robert Harmon Foss (28 Jun 1836 - 28 Dec 1924)
Mother: Abbie Ellen Whipple (13 Apr 1855 - 23 Apr 1901)

Family 1: Ethel Reed Morrill (8 Mar 1891 - 1 Jul 1984)

MARRIAGE: 18 May 1910, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Robert Morrill Foss (21 May 1911 - Feb 1984)
Philip Whipple Foss (7 Feb 1916 - 13 Nov 1995)

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|--Robert A. Foss 
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Notes

!SOURCE: Handwritten descendancy chart of Matthew Whipple by Shirley Whipple Adams (email hidden), mailed to Weldon Whipple Oct 2000. Shirley created the chart "20 yrs. ago in Ipswich [Massachusetts] at the library using Hammatt & Darling papers, Ipswich V[ital] R[ecords], Hamilton V[ital] R[ecords] & cemetery records." Gives a second wife, named Velma.

!SOURCE: Email from Nanette W. Condon (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 8 Mar 2001. "He did not have a second marriage."

!SOURCE: 1 Jun 1900 federal census of District 467, Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, sheet A1, dwelling 3, family 3:

Foss, Robert, head, b. 28 Jun 1836, age 63, married 23 yrs., b. ME, parents b. ME, farmer
Foss, Abbie E., wife, b. 14 Apr 1855, age 45, married 23 yrs., b. MA, parents b. MA
Foss, Clara L., dau, b. 15 Nov 1879, age 20, married 1 yr., b. MA, father b. ME, mother b. MA, at home
Foss, Robert A., son, b. 14 Sep 1881, age 18, single, b. MA, father b. ME, mother b. MA, farm laborer
Foss, Lawerence M., son, b. 1 Aug 1889, age 10, single, b. MA, father b. ME, mother b. MA, at school
Whipple, Sarah B., servant, b. 13 Apr 1868, age 32, single, b. MA, parents b. MA, housemaid
Canon, William, servant, b. 4 Jul 1855, age 45, single, b. MA, father b. Ireland, mother b. England, farm hand
Andrews, Geo. W., servant, b. 19 Jun 1834, age 65, single, b. MA, parents b. MA, farm hand

!SOURCE: 22 Apr 1910 federal census of District 486, Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts, sheet 6B (p. 12), living on Cherry Street, dwelling 142, family 154:

Foss, Robert, head, 73, widowed, b. ME, parents b. ME, Gardener, house [?]
Foss, Robert A., son, 28, single, b. MA, father b. ME, mother b. MA, Photographer, Picture house
Von Herman, Clara L., dau, 30, married 10 yrs., b. MA, father b. ME, mother b. MA

!SOURCE: Email from Matthew O. Kingsley (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 7 Mar 2021. Cites Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915 - familysearch.org (birth place, marriage).

!SOURCE: Email from Matthew O. Kingsley (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 7 Mar 2021. Cites Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 - familysearch (adds city of marriage).

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