The Skamokawa Eagle-Thursday, August 18, 1904

Fed Foster, son of Hon. J. J. Foster of the Elochoman Valley, died at the residence of his 
parents on Friday, Aug 12 at 5 a. m. The immediate cause of death was consumption 
from which he had  suffered for about a year; the end came quietly and was painless.
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Fred Foster Passes Away
  Fred Foster, son of Hon. J. J. Foster of the Elochoman Valley, died at the residence of 
his parents on Friday, Aug. 12 at 5 a.m.  The immediate cause of death was consumption 
from which he had suffered for about a year; the end came quietly and was painless.  Mr. 
Foster was born in the Elochoman Valley Nov., 17th 1872 and lived his entire life in this 
vicinity where for several years he was engaged in the butcher business in association 
with Thos. Kent, Jr.  About the commencement of his illness, he entered into logging 
opening up a camp with the Kent Bros. but he was compelled to give it up and under 
advice of his physician went to Arizona and California seeking relief from the dread 
disease by a change of climate. Later he lived for a time in Boise, Idaho from which place 
he returned but three weeks ago. He leaves a wife, formerly Miss Lottie Nassa of 
Cathlamet and an infant son. Fred possessed the esteem and confidence of all who knew 
him in his business transactions be was ever considered an honorable and straightforward 
man; and in his social relations he was a man kindly considerate and sympathetic and the 
expressions of sympathy among his many friends were sincere because merited.
  His funeral took place Sunday under, in accordance with his expressed  wishes, the 
auspices of Cathlamet Camp No. 6983, Modern Redmen of America, of which he was a 
charter member and the first Venerable Consul, and in the Hall of the Camp services 
were held consisting of an address by J. Bruce Polwarth followed by the simple yet 
beautiful and impressive ceremonial of the order.  The choir consisting of Mesdames 
Chas. H. Warren and Nellie G. White and Messrs C. H. Warren and Clarence White 
rendered appropriate selections.  There was a wealth of floral offerings and the large 
attendance filling the hall was an eloquent tribute to Fred's high standing.  
  The remains were they conveyed to Greenwood Cemetery the burial ground of the 
Woodmen and there interred by members of the Camp which he had done so much to 
build up. During his illness he was sustained soothed and encouraged by the kindly and 
sincere spirit of brotherly love evinced by his fellow Woodmen who were with him to the 
last and who at his death took charge of his remains and did everything to lighten the 
burden of his bereaved parents and wife who desire through the columns of The Eagle to 
give expression to their appreciation of the spirit of fraternalism so sincerely and so 
unobtrusively shown and of such comfort in time of need.


Greenwood Cemetery-Cathlamet, WA
17 November 1872-15 August 1904
(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society in 2008 from original 
newspapers in the collection.