The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-23
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Funeral Services Held at Medora
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AMERICAN FRONTIERS
Of Revolutionary War Stock,
Served in Civil War and for
Years in Regulars

Inc remains OF the late James W.
Foley, news of whose death at Me.
dora on Thursday saddened his hun
dreds of friends throughout the state,
were brought to Bismarck yesterday,
and were tenderly borne by friends
Of Dakota's pioneer days to St. Mary's
cemetery, to find d resting place be-
side those Of the first wife ofDthe de-
ceased, who pasted away in 1897, and
daughter, who died here III" 1883. w.,
The funeral services held atsMedora
on Saturday were attended by practi.
cally everyone in that section of the
state, and were the most impressive
the little Billings county town has
ever witnessed. Many of the old
friends of the deceased, accompanied
the family to Bismarck and partici.
pated in the last Htes. at the grace.
side, where Rev. George Buzzelle of
St. Georges Episcopal church read
a brief service. ..n%
o-.. Born in Maryland.
The late James. w. Foley. was born
at Belair, Nd, On July 1S, f845, and
he died just one day following his
72nd birthday anniversary. DOR the.
last two or three years he had SUI
fered from arterio sclerosis. Last
Thursday night he was seized with
angina pectoris, and an hour later he
died, retaining his faculties until the
very last.
There survive widow, formerly
Mrs. Gertrude Wood Of jamestown,
with whom the deceased was united
in 1894. and the following sons and
daughters: Edgar s. Foley, Port.
land, Ore; Rolla K. Foley. Sentinel
Butte; James w. Foley, San Francis
co, Cal; Rachel A. MRS w. r. Den
niston), Spokane, Wash; Mary F.
(Mrs Stewart Todd), Billings, Mont,
and Charles R. Foley, Hardin, Mont
OF Revolutionary Stock.
The deceased was of southern
stock, his ancestors having served in
the war Of the Revolution. His par
ents died when he was a boy, and
he was brought up on farm in Ian
caster county, Pa, which he left at
the age Of II to enlist with the 9th
Pennsylvania, with which he served
through three years of the Civil war.
At the close of the war he was sta
toned at Carlisle barracks, Pa, as
cavalry Instructor. There he met and
welded Rachel Aston Shryock, whose
ancestors came to America in 1852,
and who was first cousin to Ridg-
way knight, who probably stands at
the head of art in Trance.
Mr.. Foley went with his bride to
Texas, where he served on the from.
tier for three years, among his asso-
ciates being then Lieutenant Henry
w. Lawton, later to become command.
er of the American troops in the Phil
ippines and one of Americas fore.
most soldiers. The friendship be-
tween these two endured until Cen
eral Lawton's death In the Philip
pines, where he was killed in action
The eldest two sons were born at
Fort Griffin, Texas, then part of the
Apache and Comanche country. In
the early '70s the family went to st.
Louis, where Mr.. Foley was stationed
at the old Arsenal. Thence he was
transferred to the frontier country of
Montana and Dakota and stationed At
old Fort Lincoln in 1878. In 1883 he
resigned from the army and brought
his family to Bismarck, in order that
the children might receive the bene-
fits of the public schools, In which
all were students.
To Medora.
y In 1886 the deceased accepted
position with the old Northern Pacific
Refrigerator Car company, which was
organized by the Marquis de Mores,
a French nobleman, and Of which the
late Mr.. Foley wrote an Interesting
series of articles, recently published
in the Tribune. Within year he
was made manager of the company
and had charge of its properties from
St. Paul to the Pacific coast. He had
remained in that position just 80
years when death overlook him.
He was always much interested in
the development of Billings county.
He served number of years as coun-
ty treasurer. He was a man of wide
reading and broad grasp of public
affairs, as his press comments on a
great many topics Indicated. HIS L.