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Foster Kemble Everly |
Foster Kemble Everly was born in 1884 in or near Kingwood, Preston County, WV, the son of Absalom and Sarah (Carroll) Everly.
Foster married Gay V. Bunner (1882- ? ) of Monongalia County, WV. Their marriage took place in about 1903. They resided in Pittsburgh as early as 1908, and at least as late as 1954.
Foster is mentioned in a profile of his brother
J. Ami
Everly in The History of West Virginia, Old and
New, published in 1923 by the American Historical Society, Inc. (vol.
II. page 412). The
profile calls Foster "a steamboat engineer out of Pittsburgh." A
typical steamboat is seen at right on Pittsburgh's Monongahela River,
parked beside coal barges.
When the federal census was taken in 1910, Foster and Gay had been married for seven years, but had no children. They made their home on Kaercher Street, and his occupation was listed as "marine engineer - steam boat."
By 1920, they had moved to Lydia Street in Pittsburgh, with no children, and Foster's employment given as "marine eng'r - coal co." Ten years later, in 1930, they were still making their home on Lydia Street, but he had changed his employment to "Proprietor - Confectionary Store."
Foster was alive at least as late as 1958, in Pittsburgh, when he was mentioned in the newspaper obituary of his sister May McCreery. He thus was the last surviving member of his immediate family.
Their fates after that are unknown.
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