Ancestry of
Sam Walter Foss

American Poet

Dyer H. Foss

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• • Father of Sam Walter Foss — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Walter H. Foss 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Griffin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1822 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Mar 1897 
  • Death Location:
  • Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Newington Cemetery, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Polly Hardy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Apr 1851 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Samuel Walter Foss (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • The marriage year for Dyer Foss and Polly Hardy is recorded both as 01 APR 1850 and 1851. However, the 1850 Federal Census shows both still being single in July 1850, so the correct year is 1851.

• Additional marriages for Dyer H. Foss

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  • Spouse:
  • Eliza J. Hardy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Dec 1865
  • Marriage Location:
  • Candia, Rockingham, New Hampshire

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  • Spouse:
  • Clara Augusta Carkin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 May 1870

• Sources for Dyer H. Foss

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A048222.
  • ² Federal Census, NH, Rockingham County, 1870, Candia, p. 34, Image 34 of 37.
  • ³ Federal Census, NH, Rockingham County, 1860, Candia, p. 3, Image 3 of 40.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/20/2019).
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death certificate for son Sam W Foss.
  • ⁶ New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949, Death record for Dyer Foss.
  • ⁷ New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947, Death record for spouse Clara A Foss.
  • ⁸ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947, Marriage record for Dyer Foss and Polly Hardy.
  • ⁹ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1637-1947, Marriage record for Dyer Foss and Polly Hardy, gives year as 1850.
  • ¹⁰ Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Annual Meeting, 31 January 1912 . . ., Boston: Published by the Society (1912), lxxi.
  • ¹¹ Moore, J. Bailey, History of the Town of Candia, Rockingham County, N. H.: From Its First Settlement to the Present Time, Manchester, New Hampshire: George W. Browne, Publisher (1893), 518.