, of Sugar Island, one of the pioneers of the county, is dead at the age of 80 years. She leaves a husband, who is 90 years old. In the death of Mrs. Foster Northern Michigan loses one of its most interesting characters. Mr. and Mrs. Foster were married at Hudson Bay in ’56 and soon after came to Sugar Island, tramping all the way over land. Through all the years that have intervened since the time they first set foot on this fertile garden spot in the St. Mary’s river and the present day the Fosters have been known as the most famous people of that locality. Mr. Foster was a native of Scotland, coming from that country about 60 years ago.
One of the most interesting things connected with their life on the Island is their lack of knowledge concerning the outside world. Although year after year they have seen modern vessels passing up and down the river, they have never ridden on a steamboat or traveled on a train. Mrs. Foster closed her eyes in that last, long sleep that sooner or later comes to all mankind without having felt the influence of the great wide world teeming with the excitement of commerce and society. She will be long remembered as one of the quaint characters of a region that has had much to do with the making of the history of the great northwest. Sugar Island has lost one of its most valuable citizens.
Contributed by Barbara Halloran - Note: Nancy Moore married Hugh Foster about 1846 not 56. They came to Sugar Island about 1854.
