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M George Foster

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1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 4-7:
Foster George, M, Married, 32, born England, W[esleyan] M[ethodist], Farmer;
Anne, F, Married, 32, born UC, Baptist;
Eli, M, Single, 6, born UC, Labour.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 501-502:
Reuben Bruner, an esteemed resident of Gosfield South, County of Essex, is probably one of the most venerable citizens of this locality, belonging to one of the old families.
      In early days three youths, George, Adam and Henry Bruner, accompanied their widowed mother to the County of Essex, and lived for a time on Grosse Ile. Later, when their mother married a Mr. Tofflemire, the family removed to Cedar Creek, and there the lads were reared. Of these, George was the father of our subject. ...
      George Bruner, like his brothers, was born in Pennsylvania. When he located in Gosfield township on his own responsibility, he settled on Lot 21, Concession 5, a government tract of 200 acres... Mr. Bruner died May 12, 1834, aged fifty-seven years. He married Elizabeth Tofflemire, daughter of Martin Tofflemire, who came here from Kentucky, although he lived originally in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bruner died in 1868, aged eighty-four years. The children born to them were the following: Nancy married George Foster, and at the time of her death lived in Romney...