Ancestry of
Jodie Foster

Movie Actress

Alice Eddy Fisher

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• • Great-grandmother of Jodie Foster — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • Lucius George Fisher Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Katherine Louise Eddy   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Apr 1875 
  • Birth Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • Jan 1973 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Fairmont Cemetery, Denver, Colorado 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Alexis Caldwell Foster
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Oct 1897 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
  • Child:

  Lucius Fisher Foster (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • Alice's tombstone gives her birth year as 1875 while other sources give it as 1874.

• Sources for Alice Eddy Fisher

  • ¹ Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 21 MAR 1916, p. 15, Obituary for father Lucius G Fisher.
  • ² Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 07 AUG 1910, p. 6, Obituary for mother Mrs. Lucius G. Fisher.
  • ³ Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Marriages Index, 1871-1920, Marriage record for Alexis Caldwell Foster and Alice Eddy Fisher.
  • ⁴ Denver Post (Denver, Colorado), 16 AUG 1916, p. 8, Dance party article.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, CO, Arapahoe County, 1900, Denver, E.D. 83, Sheet 6B, Image 12 of 33.
  • ⁶ Federal Census, CO, Denver County, 1910, Denver Ward 14, E.D. 180, Sheet 4B, Image 8 of 16.
  • ⁷ Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1900, Chicago Ward 32, E.D. 1001, Sheet 3A, Image 5 of 35.
  • ⁸ Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1880, Chicago, E.D. 28, p. 44, Image 44 of 51.
  • ⁹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/29/2015).
  • ¹⁰ Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900, Marriage record for Alexis Caldwell Foster and Alice Eddy Fisher.
  • ¹¹ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 14, New York: James T. White and Company (1910), 120.
  • ¹² U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Alice Foster.
  • ¹³ Eddy, Ruth Story Devereux, The Eddy Family in America, Boston: T. O. Metcalf Company (1930), 639, 811.
  • ¹⁴ Harrison, Mitchell C., Prominent and Progressive Americans: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography, Vol. 1, New York: New York Tribune (1902), 117.
  • ¹⁵ Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 11, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 30.
  • ¹⁶ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: Hammond Press (1901), 300.
  • ¹⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 333.

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