Title	Mr.
Last Name	Foss
First Name	Obed
Middle Name
Maiden Name
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Alfred, ME
Date of Birth	1818-09-05
Place of Death	Dexter, ME
Date of Death	1891-03-29
Publication	The Eastern State 4-2-1891
Obituary	Death of Obed Foss. There have been few men in Dexter who secured the esteem of their fellow-men more than Mr. Obed Foss, whose death occurred Sunday last. His health had not been good for all winter, but about ten days before his death typhoid pneumonia set in, in a violent form. Mr. Foss was a native of Alfred, Me. In early youth his parents moved to Clinton, and in 1839 or '40 he came to Dexter and established himself in the cloth dressing, and carding business, in what has later been the picker mill building at the White Mill dam. In 1848, he became a member of the firm of Conant & Co. which built the Brick Mill and carried it on until 1856, when it was sold to Farrar and Cutler, Since then Mr. Foss has carried on his farm south of Lake Wassokeag. He was a very thorough man in whatever he undertook, and was an excellent farmer in consequence. His funeral occurred Wednesday forenoon, Revs. Mr. Gould and Mr. Brown officiating. His wife and family have the hearty sympathy of the whole community in their great loss. The Eastern State 4-2-1891 Obed Foss, son of Lemuel and Mary (Chadbourne), Foss was born in Alfred, Maine, Sept. 5. 1818. When a boy in his teens his parents moved to Benton Falls, where he learned the carding business of his father. In 1841 he came to Dexter to work for the Amos Abbott Woolen Company in their Carding Mill on Mill Street. In 1843 he was married to Miss Louisa M. Billings of Clinton, who was born in Albion on Sept. 26, 1822. To them were born, in Dexter, six children, two dying in infancy. Surviving children were: Rhodo C. born in 1844; Lucy P. in 1845; Mary, L. in 1847; and-George 0. in 1855. Mr. Foss was one of the firm of Foss, Conant and Company, which built the Brick Mill, in 1848. This firm included Simon Foss, Andrew Conant, Obed and Benjamin Foss. Mr. Foss lived in town on Mill Street, until 1857 when he moved to the farm on the Ripley Road since known as the Foss Place and occupied today (1934) by his youngest daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Parkhurst, who is eighty-seven years of age and the only living member of the family. In politics Mr. Foss was always a Republican. He was a member of the First Universalist. Church Society. He died on the farm where he lived for many years on March 29, 1891. He was survived by Mrs. Foss and the four children. Mrs. Foss died Dec. 28, 1899 and the last month, of the last year of the century. Contributed by Mrs. Mary L. Parkhurst. The Eastern Gazette 1-6-1944 p.3 (LHC)