Mary Ettie (Griffey) Foster (1891 - 1975)

Born 1 Sep 1891 in Watauga, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Augustus Privett Foster — married 3 Aug 1907 in Catawba, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1975 at age 83 in Concord, Cabarrus, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Mary Ettie Griffey was born September 1,1891 in Watauga, North Carolina to parents Horton Griffey and Mariah Pilkenton. ^[1]

Mary Ettie married Augustus Privette Foster on August 3,1907^[2] in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States where they raised a large family of thirteen children:^[3]

1. Jessie Odell (1910 - 1966)^[4]
2. Connie Mae (1912 - 1988)^[5]
3. Walter Smith (1914 - 1992)^[6]
4. Infant Son (Feb 28 1917- stillborn)^[7]
5. Roy Council (1918 - 1996)^[8]
6. Paul Jones (1919 - 1974)^[9]
7. Isaac Slate (1922 - 2011)^[10]
8. Mary Ethel (1924 - 2011)^[11]
9. Frances E. (1926 - 2012)^[12]
10. Norman Gray (1929 - )^[13]
11. Ruthalee / Ruthie Lee (1931 - 2010)^[14]
12. Dewey Elmo (1934 - 1940)^[15]
13. Pearl Elizabeth (1937 - 2020)^[16]

She passed away on January 21, 1975 in Kannapolis, North Carolina ^[17]and was buried at Kannapolis City Cemetery^[18].

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Facts

• Fact: Residence (1900) Reddies River Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States

• Fact: Residence (1910) Jerusalem, Davie, North Carolina, United States

• Fact: Residence (1920) East Spencer, Rowan, North Carolina, United States

• Fact: Residence (1930) China Grove, Rowan, North Carolina, United States

• Fact: Residence (1935) Same House

• Fact: Residence (1940) Kannapolis, China Grove Township, Rowan, North Carolina, United States

• Fact: Residence (18 Jan 1975) Kannapolis, Cabarrus, North Carolina

• Fact: Burial (21 Jan 1975) Kannapolis, Cabarrus, North Carolina, United States

• Fact: Residence: Kannapolis, Cabarrus, North Carolina

Name

Mary Ettie Griffey (Foster).

Source: Year: 1920; Census Place: East Spencer, Rowan, North Carolina; Roll: T625_1321; Page: 17B; Enumeration District: 125; Image: 39. Source: Year: 1930; Census Place: China Grove, Rowan, North Carolina; Roll: 1718; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0007; Image: 434.0; FHL microfilm: 2341452.

Source: Year: 1910; Census Place: Jerusalem, Davie, North Carolina; Roll: T624_1107; Page: 25A; Enumeration District: 0041; FHL microfilm: 1375120. Source: Year: 1940; Census Place: China Grove, Rowan, North Carolina; Roll: T627_2968; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 80-9.

Source: Year: 1910; Census Place: Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina; Roll: T624_1102; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0023; FHL microfilm: 1375115. Source: The National Archives at Atlanta, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; North Carolina World War II Draft Registration Cards; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 1926-1975, RG 147; Box: 121. Source: Number: 246-74-6816; Issue State: North Carolina; Issue Date: 1963.

Source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Reddies River, Wilkes, North Carolina; Roll: 1224; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0155; FHL microfilm: 1241224. Source: The National Archives at Atlanta, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 1926-1975, RG 147; Box: 121. Mary Etta Griffey. Mary Ettie Griffey.

Array

Born

01 Sep 1891; Watauga County, North Carolina, USA.

Marriage

3 Aug 1907; Catawba, North Carolina, USA.

Residences

Relation to Head: Mother. 1946; Kannapolis, North Carolina, USA.

1935; China Grove, Rowan, North Carolina.

Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head of House: Wife. 1 Apr 1940. ; China Grove, Rowan, North Carolina, USA.

Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Daughter. 1900; Reddies River, Wilkes, North Carolina, USA.

Cabarrus

Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head of House: Wife. 1930; China Grove, Rowan, North Carolina. 1913; Salisbury; Spencer, North Carolina, USA.

Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head of House: Wife. 1910; Jerusalem, Davie, North Carolina, USA.

Kannapolis, Cabarrus, North Carolina.

Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head of House: Wife. 1920; East Spencer, Rowan, North Carolina, USA.

Died

18 Jan 1975; Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA.

Buried

21 Jan 1975; Kannapolis, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA.

Files / Media

File: Media Format: jpg. gravemarker for Augustus P and Mary (Griffey) Foster.

Sources

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• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSBT-8LM : accessed 11 August 2021), Ettie Griffey in household of Horton Griffey, Reddies River Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 155, sheet 10A, family 180, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,224.

• "North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8XY-MV7 : 14 February 2020), Etta Griffey in entry for A. P. Foster, 1907.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML9Z-M2G : accessed 11 August 2021), Ettie Foster in household of Augustus P Foster, Jerusalem, Davie, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 41, sheet 25A, family 345, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1107; FHL microfilm 1,375,120.

• "North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VCSR-MN1 : 8 December 2014), Mary Ettie Griffey in entry for Connie Mae Foster, 31 Mar 1912; from "North Carolina, Birth and Death Indexes, 1800-2000," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing vol. D-10, p. 147, Davie, North Carolina, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZNY-PWV : 3 February 2021), Mary Foster in entry for Augustus Foster, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3Q1-N3Y : accessed 11 August 2021), Mary Foster in household of Privett Foster, China Grove, Rowan, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 7, sheet 9A, line 47, family 157, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1718; FHL microfilm 2,341,452.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW3Z-MCQ : 9 January 2021), Mary G Foster in household of Augustus P Foster, China Grove Township, Rowan, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 80-9, sheet 4A, line 28, family 47, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2968.

• "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGGL-Q2Y : 18 July 2017), Mary Griffey Foster, 18 Jan 1975; citing Concord, Cabarrus, North Carolina, v 0A cn 494, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,983,988.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 28 July 2021, 01:24), entry for Mary Ettie Griffey (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:9V4J-Q6K ); contributed by various users.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73229598/mary-ettie-foster: accessed 23 October 2022), memorial page for Mary Ettie Griffey Foster (1 Sep 1891–18 Jan 1975), Find a Grave Memorial ID 73229598, citing Kannapolis City Cemetery, Kannapolis, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA; Maintained by Richard Jordan (contributor 46497047) .

Memorial Page Here: [20]

• Findagrave memorial ID#:73229598

• As told by my great grandmother Connie Foster McCombs and written in a letter to me by her hand (the daughter listed as Connie Mae Foster in the Biography; making Mary Ettie my 2nd Great Grandmother)Becky Elizabeth

Acknowledgments

• Becky Elizabeth

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