Pauline Jatho Foster gave this walking stick to her husband Marcellus Foster in 1887. Click the image to see details of the inscription.
Grave of Marcellus P. Foster, Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia (thanks to Steve Mason for the photo)
Pauline Maria Alexandra Jatho, born on July 24, 1854, was G.W.'s and Elise's older daughter. She was educated in Charleston and spent some time in the western South Carolina community of Greenwood. After the death of her father in September 1870, she and her family returned to Charleston. Once resettled in the community mother Elise arranged for the entire family to become members of St. Matthews German Evangelical Church on King Street; all the children were baptized there in 1873.
Perhaps preferring an English-speaking congregation (St. Matthew's services were conducted entirely in German), the Jatho children gradually migrated to St. John's Church, where archives show a marriage between Pauline and Marcellus P. Foster on December 1, 1875. Marcellus was one of the fifteen children of John and Jane Em Zinn Foster of Augusta, Georgia. Marcellus studied law and established himself in a distinguished career.
Marcellus and Pauline made their home in Augusta where Marcellus had his practice; they had no children. After Marcellus' death on June 18, 1897 Pauline, now a landlady, continued to live in Augusta to be near her younger brother Edmond, who had a sales business there.
After 1920 Pauline returned to Charleston to be closer to her brother George and his family, including her niece and namesake Pauline Marcella, George and Arnolda Jatho's daughter. Pauline Foster died in Charleston in July 1926 and was buried in the Jatho family plot at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston.