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SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

JOHN FOSTER,
WHO DIED JUNE 29TH 1924
AGED 82 YEARS

ALSO OF

MARTHA,
THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED JAN 5TH 1899,
AGED 59 YEARS
INTERRED IN DESBOROUGH CHURCHYARD

"AT REST" 



John Foster was born at Desborough about 1847, the son of Robert Foster of Rothwell and Elizabeth Sharp of Great Easton in Leicestershire.

I believe his wife to be Martha Yeomans, married between 1881 and 1891 - there is a BMD index record for John in 1888 but no wife with the same reference, so one or the other has been mis-indexed. Martha was buried in Desborough churchyard, with a memorial there.