Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1917 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Mary A. Rogers was born in Clarke county, Ohio, Feb. 3, 1837, and while quite young her parents moved to Indiana and located on Sugar Creek east of Crawfordsville, later moving to Romney in Tippecanoe county, where she grew to Womanhood. She united with the Methodist Episcopal] church when quite young. In 1857 she was united in marriage to Cyrus Foltz, who departed this life April 19, 1885. Two children were bom to this union, May Susie Foltz and Frank Foltz, who survive. After her marriage to Cyrus Foltz they continued to live in Tippecanoe county until the spring of 1868, when they moved to White county, Indiana, near Wolcott, and resided on a farm until the spring of 1870, when they located in Oxford, Benton county, Indiana, and resided there until the spring of 1886, when Mrs. Foltz and her son, Frank, moved to Rensselaer, her daughter having married Simon P, Thompson, of Rensselaer, previous to this date, where she resided until sickness caused her removal to Longcliff for treatment in the fall of 1914, at which place she passed away on July 2, 1917, age 80 years, 4 months and 29 days. Mrs. Foltz left but few direct relatives, three grandchildren, Edna Thompson Kurrie, Firman Thornpeon. and Simon Thompson, all ot Rensselaer, and one niece, Mm. Cyrus A. Myers, of Michigan City, Ina. ~ Mrs. Foltz was of a retired disposition and a lover of home, of her children friends.