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              <text>Emil Foster and Mabel Shaw family letters, 1933-1948</text>
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              <text>Letters from the Peder Emil Foster and Mabel Shaw family. The people in the collection of letters include:


Harold Johannessen Skaug/Schau/Shaw, born in Norway.
Francine Matilde Lange, wife of Harold Shaw, born in Mandal, Vestfold, Norway.
Mabel Knot, adopted daughter of Harold and Francine. Her father and mother were Joseph Knott and Theresia Hartmann, Germans living in the eastern Czech Republic, known as Sudeten Germans. The parents were not mentioned in the letters. 
Peder Emil Fostvedt-Foster, husband of Mabel, born on december 2, 1884 in Sande, Vestfold, Norway. The name Foster was used in the United States. 
Peder Emil and Mabel's children:
Harriet Shaw Fostvedt-Foster, born in Jersey City, News Jersy on November 6, 1918 (Married Herman Lee Parrish from Bethany, Oklahoma)
Evelyn Beatrice Fostvedt-Foster, born in Jersey City, on March 19, 1920 (married Robert Wilson Mason from Tennessee)
Frances Ann Fostvedt-Fostre, born in Miami, on July 25, 1932 (Married James Walton Debnam from Maryland)</text>
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              <text>James and Fran Debnam 
555 Couch Ave
Kirkwood, MO 63122</text>
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