Zebedee Zebedee Zebedee (, "Zebedaios", ; , "Zvad'yah", ), according to all four Canonical gospels, was the father of James and John, two disciples of Jesus. The gospels also suggest that he was the husband of Salome: whereas Mark 15:40 names the women present at the crucifixion as "Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joses, and Salome", the parallel passage in has "Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children." The "Catholic Encyclopedia" concludes that the Salome of Mark 15:40 is probably identical with the mother of
Rebecca Salome Foster Rebecca Salome Foster Rebecca Salome Elliott Foster (October 24, 1848 - February 22, 1902) was a missionary/prison relief worker known as the "Tombs Angel" because she attended to criminals incarcerated at The New York Halls of Justice and House of Detention (otherwise known as "The Tombs"). Rebecca Salome Elliott was born October 24, 1848, in Alabama, the daughter of John Howard Elliott and Margaret Adele Blue. She married Union Civil War General John Armstrong Foster on February 28th, 1865. US President Abraham Lincoln attended their wedding since Foster was a member of the presidential cabinet. The Fosters had four children: