Ancestry of
Jodie Foster

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Alice Eddy Fisher

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

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