Mary Salome and Zebedee right hand; he is expressively depicted as an elderly man with sunken cheeks, his gaze is fixed on the observer. He is dressed in a buttoned robe. Mary Salome and Zebedee Mary Salome and Zebedee by Tilman Riemenschneider (c.1460–1531) originally formed the right wing of an altarpiece showing the family of the Virgin Mary. The central scene would have shown St Anne seated with her daughter Mary and the Christ Child. Mary Salome was another daughter of St Anne, half sister of the Virgin and wife of Zebedee. Riemenschnieder was one of the most important sculptors in southern Germany in
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