OBITUARY.Elijah Thornton Foushee was born in Randolph Co., N. C., May 29, 1834 and passed into the great beyond Thursday, Oct. 9, 1919.He was married to Margaret M. Forrester, of Chatham Co. N. C., A. D, 1855.To this union was born ten children, five of whom preceded him, three of them dying in infancy, William Parker, the eldest dying at the age of twenty one and Mrs. J. R. Carpenter, who passed away Jan. 16, 1918.He volunteered his services in the Civil War in 1861. He joined Gen. Robert E. Lee's army and fought valiantly for the right of his Countrymen as he saw them until the surrender of this army in 1866.After the close of the war when his beloved south was in the throes of Reconstruction, he left the land of his birth, migrating westward, settling on a farm near Knoxville, Ray Co., Mo., where he and his family resided until coming to Oklahoma in 1898, locating near Shawnee, where his faithful wife passed away in 1902.In 1904 he, with his daughter - the other children having previously married, came to Stroud, where he resided until his death.In 1895 he united with the Primitive Baptist Church at the Marion Church near Knoxville, Mo., of which he was a loyal member until his death.His five remaining children who were with him during the last two weeks of his illness are Eliza Foushee, Mary Foushee Comer, A. L. and C. M. Foushee all of Stroud, Oklahoma, and Elijah Thornton Foushee, Jr., of Princeton, Kansas."
OBITUARY.Elijah Thornton Foushee was born in Randolph Co., N. C., May 29, 1834 and passed into the great beyond Thursday, Oct. 9, 1919.He was married to Margaret M. Forrester, of Chatham Co. N. C., A. D, 1855.To this union was born ten children, five of whom preceded him, three of them dying in infancy, William Parker, the eldest dying at the age of twenty one and Mrs. J. R. Carpenter, who passed away Jan. 16, 1918.He volunteered his services in the Civil War in 1861. He joined Gen. Robert E. Lee's army and fought valiantly for the right of his Countrymen as he saw them until the surrender of this army in 1866.After the close of the war when his beloved south was in the throes of Reconstruction, he left the land of his birth, migrating westward, settling on a farm near Knoxville, Ray Co., Mo., where he and his family resided until coming to Oklahoma in 1898, locating near Shawnee, where his faithful wife passed away in 1902.In 1904 he, with his daughter - the other children having previously married, came to Stroud, where he resided until his death.In 1895 he united with the Primitive Baptist Church at the Marion Church near Knoxville, Mo., of which he was a loyal member until his death.His five remaining children who were with him during the last two weeks of his illness are Eliza Foushee, Mary Foushee Comer, A. L. and C. M. Foushee all of Stroud, Oklahoma, and Elijah Thornton Foushee, Jr., of Princeton, Kansas."
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