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Rev Joseph Foss

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Rev Joseph Foss

Birth
Lee, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA
Death
30 Dec 1852 (aged 86–87)
Brighton, Somerset County, Maine, USA
Burial
Athens, Somerset County, Maine, USA GPS-Latitude: 44.9266687, Longitude: -69.6671849
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Parents: Josiah Foss and Elizabeth (Weeks) FOSS.
Rev. Joseph Foss was an ordained Free Will Baptist minister.
He married Elizabeth Tuffs; lived in Lee, NH until 1802. He went west to Brighton, ME, in 1812, and began holding meetings. He became pastor there and stayed pastor for forty years, doing much ministerial work in towns that had no regular minister. He was a worthy and esteemed minister. He preached more than fifty years and died in his 88th year of age.
(Taken from Free Baptist Cyclopedia, pub. 1889, by Ward and Burgess; also, from online message where he was bur).
Additional information is welcome:

"He did much ministerial work in towns that had no
regular minister. He died in that town in 1852."
Parents: Josiah Foss and Elizabeth (Weeks) FOSS.
Rev. Joseph Foss was an ordained Free Will Baptist minister.
He married Elizabeth Tuffs; lived in Lee, NH until 1802. He went west to Brighton, ME, in 1812, and began holding meetings. He became pastor there and stayed pastor for forty years, doing much ministerial work in towns that had no regular minister. He was a worthy and esteemed minister. He preached more than fifty years and died in his 88th year of age.
(Taken from Free Baptist Cyclopedia, pub. 1889, by Ward and Burgess; also, from online message where he was bur).
Additional information is welcome:

"He did much ministerial work in towns that had no
regular minister. He died in that town in 1852."


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  • Maintained by: gramiam2
  • Originally Created by: wvy
  • Added: May 19, 2011
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70064114/joseph-foss: accessed ), memorial page for Rev Joseph Foss (1765–30 Dec 1852), Find a Grave Memorial ID 70064114, citing Mount Rest Cemetery, Athens, Somerset County, Maine, USA; Maintained by gramiam2 (contributor 48728132).