Individual Details
Amelia Foster
(Abt 1830 - 17 Aug 1893)
OBITUARY: The Yellowstone Journal, Miles City MT, 18Aug1893
Mrs. Amelia Kingsley, a pioneer of Custer County died at the residence of Mrs. Kimes in this city last evening. The deceased had been ailing for the past year and half and has been confined to the house about one month. Some
three weeks since she was removed to town and has since been gradually sinking from complications of heart disease, asthma and dropsy.
Deceased was 63 years of age, a native of Ireland, but had lived many years in Canada before coming to Montana. Mrs. Kinglsey leaves nine grown children, four of which are daughters and all married. Seven of her children are at present living in Custer county, and the family has lived at times in Miles City and the Rosebud and at present on Pumpkin Creek.
About Simcoe County, Ontario Branch of the Ontario Genalogical Society, Pox 892 Barrie Ontario L4M 4Y6
After the U.S. Civil War, the Homestead Act offered free land in the American Mid-West and after the building of the first Canadian transcontinental railroad, the Canadian Prairies became accessible for settlement. Many members of Simcoe County families “went west” to either the U.S or the Canadian West. Gold discoveries in California, the Cariboo and the Klondike, attracted others as did the great American industrial cities such as Detroit and Chicago. But, Simcoe County in 1900 remained primarily an agricultural county.
Amelia Kingsley filed a Declaration of Intent to become a citizen of the United States on December 16, 1890 in Custer County, Montana. On the same day she filed a homestead application for 160 acres in Section 10, Township 1, Range
48E, Stacy unit, Custer county, Montana. The house on Amelia's homestead was a log structure, about 16 x 24, built in 1877. Other buildings included a corral, a shed and a small stable.
CHILDREN:
LAST WILL and TESTAMENT of Amelia Kingsley, Stacy, Custer Co., Montana, 17 Dec 1892,
Recorded Book A of Wills & Letters, Pages 39 and 40, Custer Cty, Montana
--Eldest daughter, Charlotte Doonan, Stacy, Custer Co., Montana
--Eldest son, James Kingsley, Unknown residence
--2nd son, William John Kingsley, Unknown residence
--3rd son, Franklin L. Kingsley, Maiden, Fergus Co., Montana
--2nd daughter, Henrietta Clark, Livingston, Park Co., Montana
--4th son, Robertson Kingsley, Stacy, Custer Co., Montana
--3rd daughter, Mary Elizabeth Broughton, Pumpkin Creek, Montana
--4th daughter, Joan Maria Matilda Sophia Kingsley, Stacy, Custer Co., Montana
--Youngest son, Alfred Alexander Kingsley, Flat Willow Creek, Fergus Co., Montana
Mrs. Amelia Kingsley, a pioneer of Custer County died at the residence of Mrs. Kimes in this city last evening. The deceased had been ailing for the past year and half and has been confined to the house about one month. Some
three weeks since she was removed to town and has since been gradually sinking from complications of heart disease, asthma and dropsy.
Deceased was 63 years of age, a native of Ireland, but had lived many years in Canada before coming to Montana. Mrs. Kinglsey leaves nine grown children, four of which are daughters and all married. Seven of her children are at present living in Custer county, and the family has lived at times in Miles City and the Rosebud and at present on Pumpkin Creek.
About Simcoe County, Ontario Branch of the Ontario Genalogical Society, Pox 892 Barrie Ontario L4M 4Y6
After the U.S. Civil War, the Homestead Act offered free land in the American Mid-West and after the building of the first Canadian transcontinental railroad, the Canadian Prairies became accessible for settlement. Many members of Simcoe County families “went west” to either the U.S or the Canadian West. Gold discoveries in California, the Cariboo and the Klondike, attracted others as did the great American industrial cities such as Detroit and Chicago. But, Simcoe County in 1900 remained primarily an agricultural county.
Amelia Kingsley filed a Declaration of Intent to become a citizen of the United States on December 16, 1890 in Custer County, Montana. On the same day she filed a homestead application for 160 acres in Section 10, Township 1, Range
48E, Stacy unit, Custer county, Montana. The house on Amelia's homestead was a log structure, about 16 x 24, built in 1877. Other buildings included a corral, a shed and a small stable.
CHILDREN:
LAST WILL and TESTAMENT of Amelia Kingsley, Stacy, Custer Co., Montana, 17 Dec 1892,
Recorded Book A of Wills & Letters, Pages 39 and 40, Custer Cty, Montana
--Eldest daughter, Charlotte Doonan, Stacy, Custer Co., Montana
--Eldest son, James Kingsley, Unknown residence
--2nd son, William John Kingsley, Unknown residence
--3rd son, Franklin L. Kingsley, Maiden, Fergus Co., Montana
--2nd daughter, Henrietta Clark, Livingston, Park Co., Montana
--4th son, Robertson Kingsley, Stacy, Custer Co., Montana
--3rd daughter, Mary Elizabeth Broughton, Pumpkin Creek, Montana
--4th daughter, Joan Maria Matilda Sophia Kingsley, Stacy, Custer Co., Montana
--Youngest son, Alfred Alexander Kingsley, Flat Willow Creek, Fergus Co., Montana
Events
| Birth | Abt 1830 | , Ireland |  | ||
| Marriage | Abt 1852 or 1853 | Amos L. Kingsley | |||
| Death | 17 Aug 1893 | Miles City, Custer, Montana | | ||
| Burial | Custer County Cemetery | |
Families
| Spouse | Amos L. Kingsley (1822 - 1892) |
| Child | Charlotte Kingsley (1853 - ) |
| Child | James Kingsley (1856 - ) |
| Child | William John Kingsley (1858 - ) |
| Child | Franklin L. Kingsley (1860 - ) |
| Child | Robertson Kingsley (1864 - ) |
| Child | Henrietta Kingsley (1865 - ) |
| Child | Mary Elizabeth Kingsley (1868 - 1951) |
| Child | Joan Maria Kingsley (1870 - ) |
| Child | Alfred A. Kingsley (1874 - 1946) |
Endnotes
1. Miles City Genealogical Society, Custer County Cemetery Index, Page 111 of 228.
2. Canadian Census, 1871, Province of Ontario, Dist. 4, South Simcoe, Sub-district F, Div. 3, Essa Twp., p32.
3. Newspaper, The Yellowstone Journal, .
4. Miles City Genealogical Society, Custer County Cemetery Index, Page 111 of 228.