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 Salome (Lomie) Elliott (1865), Marie Louise (1867), Jeanette Jennie (1873), and John (Johnnie) Armstong (1873). Rebecca's husband John Foster was a prominent lawyer and Republican politician in New York but eventually succumbed to alcoholism, abandoning his family two years before he died in 1890. Rebecca supported herself and her family from the remuneration received as a city missionary. From the time of her abandonment on she wore black mourning clothes in public. Rebecca Salome Foster was one of at least 14 people who died in the Park Avenue Hotel fire on February 22, 1902. Her role as the somewhat anonymous