PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ NEWSLETTER No. 1
Dr. John Scott Davenport, Editor A Cold, Raw Memorial Day Weekend
University Station Box 7149 along the Wasatch Front,
Provo, Utah 84602 Monday, May 26, 1980
Dear Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz Folk;
This beginning letter has been a long time in coming, and is not being published under the auspices originally planned. It is, in essence, a continuation of the Fouts Folk Newsletters, which began in 1970 on an irregular basis, but we are now including all folk who are descendants of Hans Michael Pfautz, immigrant of 1727; Jacob Pfautz, in Pennsylvania by 1730; Theobald Pfautz (Dewald Fouts, Sr.) , immigrant of 1737; David Pfautz, immigrant of 1749; Conrad Foutz, immigrant of 1752; John Jacob Pfautz, immigrant of 1772; Dorothea Fautz, immigrant of 1787; Michael Pfoutz, immigrant of 1787; and John Pfautz, immigrant of 1816. Others of later immigration will be added as their presence’s become known.
The main thrust of research during the past year was the search of German records in the Genealogical Society of Utah archives for the antecedents of Conrad Foutz, Sr., which was fully funded by the Jacob Foutz Family Association of Farmington, New Mexico. However, the arrangement whereby the Association would publish the Newsletter did not work out. Because of a misunderstanding as to what some church leaders said regarding the responsibility of the Jacob Foutz Family Association to continue research beyond the 4th Generation, financial support for the project nearly ceased. While all the questions have not been resolved completely, we hope to get underway at least with this Newsletter. Hopefully before the next issue comes out we will get some written answers, similar to expressions recently made by other church leaders by phone, that will help everyone feel good about continuing their support.
In the meantime, the Newsletter will be written by Dr. John Scott Davenport, of Orem, Utah, and will be published by Dean R. Foutz of Honolulu , Hawaii. Until further notice, copies of the Newsletter will be distributed without further cost to all donors of the Jacob Foutz Family Association per mailing list provided, as well as to others on Dr. Davenport's Fouts Folk list. For the present, we'll try to bring you up to date on what's been accomplished in PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ Research with funds, subscriptions, and donations that you have Previously forwarded---to the Jacob Foutz Family Association.
By way of updating you on PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ research, let's run down the various immigrant ancestors and briefly view the current status of each:
Hans Michael Pfautz, Sr., (1727), of Lancaster Co., Pa,
This family is largely defined insofar as its line of this side of the Atlantic is concerned. The determination, from research in German parish records, that Jacob Pfautz, 1717-1800, buried in the Lutheran cemetery at Strasburg, Lancaster Co., Pa., was the second son---and not the oldest son as land records in Pennsylvania claimed--- has eliminated the remaining identification problem.
The family of "Baron" John Pfoutz, of Pfoutz Valley, Pa., the youngest son of this immigrant ancestor, is not largely defined. Lines out of Pfoutz Valley run to north and northwest Pennsylvania, extreme northeast Ohio, Michigan, and Oregon. One offbeat line was Missouri to pioneering Montana. Another was to Augusta and Rockbridge Cos., Virginia, and from there to Louisiana.
One major finding of the past year was the family of Joseph Fouts, youngest son of Peter Pfoutz. This Joseph Fouts was born in Chester Co., Pa., and lived in Frederick Co., Md.; Montgomery Co. , Ohio; and Henry Co., Indiana before settling in Hamilton Co., Indiana and dying there in 1837. Among Joseph's sons were Peter, Samuel, Michael, and Daniel---Peter and Daniel stuck together, and were in Huntington Co., Indiana; Lancaster Co., Nebraska; and Iron Co., Utah. Samuel and Michael are still elusive.
Several lines of the Hans Michael descent have also been polished up, including Peter D. Fouts, son of Daniel Fouts and Margaret Schaeffer. It took some cross-referencing, but we’ve put the lines straight through until today, and now include several descendants of that line among our Newsletter fo1k.
JACOB PFAUTZ, (1730), OF GERMANY TWP., YORK (NOW ADAMS) CO., PA.
We are no further in identifying Jacob Pfautz, father of Michael Fouts, Sr., of Randolph Co., North Carolina, and his sister, Anna Margaret Fouts Hoover---immigrant ancestress of President Herbert C. Hoover, than we were this time last year, Speculation continues that Jacob was a younger brother of Hans Michael (both named their Oldest sons "Michael," presumably for the paternal grandfather); that Jacob, who sold out in Germany Twp., York (now Adams) Co., Pa., at the same time that his son Michael and son-in-law Andrew Hoover sold out in adjacent Frederick Co., Md., went to North Carolina with his eldest son and eldest daughter. However, at least one of Jacob's daughters, Catherine, who married John Eckert, remained in the area. One known son of Jacob and two daughters are yet to be accounted for.
Insofar as the family of Andrew Fouts (1736-1771) is concerned, there is still much definition to be done among the families of the seven sons---in Brooke Co., Va., (now West Va.), and Morgan Co., Ohio, A grandson, also Andrew, was one of the earliest settlers in Iowa, died of drowning, with portions of his family going to California and back to Morgan Co., Ohio. This family was composed of hard-nosed frontiersmen, and had none of religious reservations of their Mennonite, Dunker, and Quaker cousins of North Carolina. Andrew shifted from Lutheranism to Anglicanism in Virginia (a not uncommon practice---a number of German ministers did it; after all King George III, as the Elector of Hanover as well as the King of England, was the ruling prince of the German Lutherans as well as the English Episcopalians, a fact that most historians have largely overlooked). Anyway, we've still got work to do on defining the lines of the family of Andrew Fouts, son of Jacob Pfautz.
It now appears that Joseph Fouts*(1779-1856) was, after all, a son of John Leonard Fouts, Sr., and not of Theobald Fouts, Jr., and Elizabeth Hoover Fouts---which means that the line is of Theobald Fouts, Sr., and not also of Jacob Pfautz. A rigorous check of census records puts Joseph in another family than Theobald, Jr.'s---and John Leonard was the only other son of Theobald, Sr., on New River waters (Wilkes-Ashe-Wautaga Cos., N.C.) old enough to have been Joseph's father, Peter Fouts, later of Montgomery Co. , Ohio, and Carroll Co., Indiana, was there cl793-1801, but he was the youngest of Theobald, Sr.'s sons, and was 12-years-old when Joseph Fouts of Ashe Co. was born---so that leaves John Leonard Fouts, Sr., by default, Excluding George Fouts, of Joseph, who went to Pike Co., Ky., before 1860, this line was largely wiped out in male lines by the Civil War.
(* = of New River Waters, Ashe Co., North Carolina)
Real progress has been made relative to Andrew Fouts, Sr., second son of Michael Fouts, Sr., both of Randolph Co., N.C.; Andrew, Sr., (1751-1834), was the only Fouts in North Carolina who, by documented behavior, actively aided The American Revolution. He remained in Randolph Co. and died there, with most of his family having moved to Indiana. An Illinois Fouts descendant and a Colorado Fouts-Morgan descendant of Andrew, Sr., are working on the definition of the basic Randolph Co. family---including Osborn and Allen lines, and what happened to Andrew, Sr.'s son William? (Was he the William who was married twice and divorced once in Washington Co., Indiana , in the 1840s and early 1850s?). For those of you who are Keeping family sheets, strike out Rachel LOW as Andrew's wife and enter "Rachel Merrell, daughter of William Merrell." William Merrell had the land adjacent to Andrew, then his son Dan Merrell had it. Andrew, Sr. named Zaza C. Merrell (apparently a nephew) as executor of his estate. There are several documents in the N.C. Archives, Randolph Co. files, which indicate that Andrew and the Merrells cross-bonded each other on occasions. The Merrell connection also explains why Andrew stayed in North Carolina---he had one of the best farms in the "Rich Lands of Uwhary." What Andrew didn't have of those lands, the Merrells had. For those of you who are history buffs, William Merrell was the brother of Captain Benjamin Merrill, the Regulator, who was hung, drawn and quartered by Gov. Tryon in 1771. For those interested, there's a double DAR-SAR certification in this line.
Theobald Pfoutz, Sr., (1738), of Randolph Co., N.C.
We're still working on the Southern extensions of this family. We know that most of the family of Lewis, sixth son of Theobald, Sr., who settled in Cabarrus Co., N.C., before 1800 and returned to Lutheranism, was wiped out by the Civil War. We've still got work to do on the family of Leonard Fouts, Jr., wife Sarah Younce, which moved, in pieces, 1835-43, to extreme southeast Tennessee--- then, by 1850, to Gilmer and Murray Cos., Georgia. The family, as noted above, was located in Wilkes-Ashe Co., N.C., cl785 until it began moving--- not counting a swing of Leonard Fouts, Sr., with some of his family at least, into Kentucky in the mid-1790s and again in 1801-02. Leonard had land in Muehlenberg Co., Ky., and speculated in land in Warren Co., Ky. He also married a daughter Mary, to Joseph Ray, there in 1795.
John Martin Fouts, b. 9 Sep 1781, North Carolina. appears to belong to the Theobald, Sr., line, likely through John Leonard Fouts, Sr. In mid-1820, apparently after the Census was taken, a John Martin Fouts and a man named Anderson appeared in the upper River country of Louisiana. There, on 18 Feb 1821, he married Martha Ware Nelson, a widow, said to have been born in North Carolina, 14 Jan 1790. There were five children in the family: Maria Theresa Fouts, b. 20 Nov 1821; David Cook Fouts b. 20 Jul 1823; John Martin Fouts, Jr. , b. 21 Aug 1830; Thomas Jefferson Fouts, b. 14 Feb 1834; and Martha Jane Fouts, b. 13 Sep 1836. John Martin Fouts died on 19 Feb 18445 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. There is a possible clue in the oldest son being named David for all of the sons of David Pfautz (1749) by his second wife named their eldest sons David (as did those eldest sons to their eldest sons), but David Pfautz was dead in 1779 when his wife and family appeared in North Carolina records, living adjacent to Andrew Garron on the Rowan (now Davidson) side of the county line with Randolph---less than a mile from the Fouts' of Randolph Co. None of the Widow Fouts' five sons (all born after 1760) were on the tax lists in 1781, meaning they weren't old enough to be taxables, either as householders or unmarried polls, with the possible exception of Nicholas, the eldest---and he only had one son, (his last child born in 1815) naturally named "David". So, it doesn't parse for the David Pfautz line....
... and that takes us back to John Leonard Fouts, the peripatetic Fouts of Wilkes-Ashe Co., North Carolina. John Leonard, Sr., who went by "Leonard" or by "Leonard, Sr.", was a maverick in naming children, having sons George, Leonard, Jr., Joseph, Jacob, and Solomon---all but Jacob being unique among the North Carolina Fouts. He could just as easily have had a John Martin in the group. He would have been born between Joseph and Jacob. Anyway, for the time being, we circumstantially attribute John Martin Fouts to the Theobald, Sr. , line. It became quite a prestigious family in Northwest Louisiana, in medicine, education, and the Baptist ministry.
We've also done some work on further definition of the family of Phillip Fouts, youngest son of John Daniel Fouts (John Fouts, Sr.), eldest son of Theobald, Sr., who died in Randolph Co., North Carolina, in 1803. Phillip was in Randolph Co., North Carolina, in 1810; in Buncombe Co. , North Carolina in 1820 (with a passle of Garrons, Rhodes, and Merrills---all from the Uwharrie); in Shelby Co., Indiana in 1830 (with Arnolds, Absalom and Dougan Fouts---nephews, son of Jacob); in Polk Co., Missouri, in 1840 (with Fouts of Andrew, Sr., of Randolph Co., North Carolina); and his widow and large family, still together, was in Polk Co., Iowa, in 1850. By 1860, the family had scattered to the winds; most had gone on the Oregon Trail in 1852, but one had gone back to Polk Co., Missouri, and then into Kansas; one had gone to Texas, and one had gone gold prospecting in California, We've run all of them down except the one in Texas---he served in Confederate Cavalry, and there's some doubt if he survived.
Anyway, we'll likely be working on Theobald's Fouts for sometime.
Conrad Foutz, (1752), of Washington Twp., Franklin Co., Pa.
By far, most of the funded research during the past year has been in trying to establish the origin of Conrad Foutz, Sr. When he enlisted for military service during the French and Indian war in 1759, Conrad gave Zweibruecken as his birth place on enlistment papers. Robert Jowett, an accredited genealogist (A.G.) specializing in Old German records, spent almost a year in reading through all of the Lutheran parish records of Zweibruecken ---- which was almost a dry hole. It was not until the last batch of parishes---in Northfelden, belonging to the Principality of Birkenfeld, but ruled by Zweibruecken that a Fautz was found. In 1738, Elizabetha Fautz, of Nofelden, was given permission to immigrate to America.
Only the rare ship's passenger- list identified the female passengers, and Elizabeth wasn't on one of those rare lists. But we do know that Theobald Pfautz, Sr., (as Theevia Fautzen), arrived in America in 1738 on the Ship "Davy", being slightly past 16-years-old. Now, was Elizabetha Fautz related to Theobald Pfautz and was Theobald also from that isolated part of Zweibruecken which lay east of the Rhine? Anyway, we have found our first Fautz in the domain of Zweibruecken, and we still have no Pfautz, Fautz, etc., who were living west of the Rhine in any of the records yet searched. The misunderstanding in Farmington (mentioned earlier) occurred just as Mr. Jowett was approaching the Nohfelden parish reading, and the project was shut down. However, the work is being continued---under temporary joint financing by Dean Foutz and Dr. Davenport.
Our current plans are to finish the Conrad Foutz ancestral identification search in the Zweibruecken records---and then to proceed to the identification of the German roots of all of the Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz in America. We know they center around the Neckar River, east of the Rhine, in Baden and Wurtemburg. And much evidence suggests that all Pfautz, etc., have a common ancestry. Anyway, we plan to search it out---and Mr. Jowett is willing to go to Germany, if needs be, to do the search in records which are not available on microfilm in the U.S. (Some Lutheran jurisdictions have refused to allow Mormon microfilming of their records---others have freely shared. So some research may have to be done in Germany.)
John David Pfautz, (1749), of Lancaster, Pa.
In terms of advancement, John David Pfautz, who arrived in America in 1749, has come from the back of the pack and gone out in front in terms of identification. In the early days of the Conrad Foutz search, Mr. Jowett checked out a few "easy" parishes (previously identified as containing Pfautz members), and found a large number of baptisms, for John David Pfautz, who lived in Merchingen, Rhenish Palatinate, for approximately 12 years before emigrating to America. There was a large amount of infant mortality among John David's children, but he, wife Maria Agnes (surname yet unknown), son John Frederick, and daughter Charlotte emigrated to America in 1749. Here, he located in Lancaster Borough, Pa. , where he earned his livelihood as joiner (carpenter). In 1754, daughter Charlotte married John Michael Lenth (Lentz, Links) in Trinity Lutheran Church. On 24 Jul 1759, John David Pfautz, widower, married Anna Barbara Hohn (Hahn, Hawn, Hon), widow, at Trinity Lutheran. In 1762, Frederick Fouts married Susanna Christy (Christig) in the Lancaster Episcopal Church. From here on, Frederick and his father apparently parted company.
We have not yet determined where either Frederick or his father David Pfautz were after 1766. David Pfautz dropped off of the Lancaster Borough tax lists in 1765, and Frederick disappears from the area's records until the late 1770s---when he again appeared on Lancaster Co. tax lists, in Hempfield Twp. So far, we know nothing specifically about David Pfautz until January, 1779, when a "patriot," taking advantage of nonjuring (refused to swear an oath of allegiance) pacifists in Rowan Co., N.C., entered upon the improvements (cabins, outbuildings, cleared land) of Andrew Garron and the “Widow Fouts.” This predatory activity was successful (it was not until the mid-1790s that Peter Fouts, the Widow's second son, was able to buy the land from the "patriot"). Positive identification of the widow did not come until the Census of 1790 where a Frederick Hun (Hawn) was enumerated in the same census group with Nicholas, Peter, and John Fouts, all sons of the Widow. Subsequent tax lists showed that Frederick Hawn was living on Fouts land. Hawn’s will, Rowan Co., N.C. Wills, D:173, notes that he was born May 2, 1744, and died June 9, 1801---and he left three sons: Frederick, Jr., Phillip, and John,
In subsequent years, where the Widow or her sons were, there also were Hawns or Hons. In Rowan (now Davidson) Co., N.C., in Lincoln Co., N.C., and in Indian Creek Twp., Harrison Co., Indiana Territory (and State). There is a cemetery in Bradford, Harrison Co., Indiana, (across from the Catholic Church), wherein are buried numerous Hons and Fouts---including six David Fouts,
The Widow's sons, by order of birth, appear to have been Peter, Nicholas, John, David, and Jacob. Peter (1761-1811) apparently lost a land entry also, in 1784, and the family moved to Washington Co., Md., where Nicholas bought a house and lot in Jerusalem (near the Frederick Co., line) in July, 1786. There were a number of Hawns in the area. In March, 1789, Nicholas Fouts sold the property in Jerusalem and moved back to Rowan (now Davidson) Co., N.C. In the Census of 1790, Peter Fouts was enumerated in Washington Co., Md. But he was also enumerated in Rowan Co., N.C., because the N.C. Census of 1790 was not taken until the first six months of 1791. In June, 1790, Peter pledged a horse and a cow to John Rowland as security for a joint note to John Rickard. Then, he apparently moved back to North Carolina,
In the Census of 1790 (1791) in Rowan Co., N.C., Nicholas, Peter, and John Fouts are enumerated as separate households. David and Jacob are apparently enumerated in Nicholas' household. Allowing for the widow and three wives, the enumeration, indicates only four others in the three households, all female, who could have been either daughters of Nicholas, Peter, or John---or sisters. No evidence has been found that suggests that there were any daughter’s in David Pfautz' second family. Jacob dropped out of sight after 1794, has not been found elsewhere. Peter died in 1811, Nicholas in 1820, both in Rowan (now Davidson). David moved to Lincoln Co., N.C., in 1802, then to Harrison Co., Indiana Territory in 1815---and died there in 1816. John Fouts divested himself of his lands to his sons in the early 1830s---and moved away. All of Peter's family, except eldest son David, moved to Pike Twp., Marion Co., Indiana, in the mid-1830s. Nicholas died in 1820 in the process of moving from Rowan (now Davidson) to Lincoln Co., N.C., leaving eight daughters and a five-year-old son David. In the N.C. Census of 1850 are David of Peter, David of Nicholas, and David of John. David of David is enumerated in Harrison Co., Indiana. Despite naming his eldest son David, John Martin Fouts, of Louisiana, cannot be fitted into this family.
In 1793, Frederick Fouts, of Hempfield Twp., Lancaster Pa., moved to Washington Co., Md., and bought a farm on Conococheage Creek, two miles from the Pennsylvania line and six miles from the Potomac and Virginia. In 1797, David, son of Frederick, moved to Randolph Co., N.C., where he located on vacant land between Andrew Fouts, Sr. (son of Michael, Sr., eldest son of Jacob Pfautz) and John Fouts, Sr. (John Daniel Fouts, eldest son of Theobald Fouts, Sr.)---which, considering that the Widow Fouts was living due west of Andrew, across the county line, about half mile, placed three out of the first five Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz to emigrate to America in the same tight neighborhood. Coincidence it may have been, but it sure looks like kinfolk from the Old Country in a family settlement.
The David Pfautz family was essentially Lutheran until the mid-1810s. In Indiana, the family of David Fouts came under Dunker influence. David Fouts*, was a Dunker minister. Later, both he and George W. Hon became noted exhorters of the Campbellite Disciples of Christ. Nicholas apparented turned Dunker in North Carolina, for in 1808, he left the Lutheran area of Rowan (now Davidson) and moved west into the Reedy Creek Dunker congregation area. The widow Fouts apparently moved with him. A cryptic note in The Moravian Records suggests that she died at an advanced age on Nicholas' plantation in 1817. The Moravians referred to her as the "Widow Fausz." (* = of David)
Most of the Fouts In Central North Carolina today are descendants of David Pfautz' second family. There was a plethora of sons in all families, and while the family sustained, casualties, in both the Union and Confederate ranks during the Civil War, there were many sons left. To the contrary, Frederick Fouts, who died in 1804 in Washington Co., Md., left seven sons, but has few descendants of the surname today. Son Jacob had one son, who had no sons. Henry had one son, has a number of descendants in the area of Cleveland, Ohio, today. Son John appears to have died in 1808---he was included in the first distribution of his father's estate in 1807, appears in a cryptic note as deceased, with Jacob as administrator in 1808---whatever, he was not married. William did not marry until late--- had a family of at least four sons and two daughters---two of the sons died in the Civil War (Indiana regiments). William, Jr., left only one son. Jacob of William left four sons, before his early death, but these lines have all run to girls. What happened to Frederick, Jr., the hatter, is not known---unless he was the John Fouts, hatter, who appeared in, Eastern Ohio in the mid-1820s and established a hat business in Mt. Eaton, Wayne Co., Ohio (which just happened to be the bailiwick of the family of George Pfoutz, son of "Baron" John Pfoutz, of Pfoutz Valley, Pa.). Whatever, John Fouts married in Mt. Eaton and sired four sons and one daughter before dying in 1837. This John was in some manner related to Henry Fouts, of Clear Spring, Md., which is located approximately a mile from where Frederick Fouts, eldest son of David, lived and died in Washington Co., Md. Henry Fouts, of Clear Spring, Md., was a hatter also---and had two sons: Marion and George W.. John Fouts, of Mt. Eaton, hatter, had four sons, Nicholas Martin Fouts, George Washington Fouts, George Jacob Fouts, and John Fouts--the daughter's name was Theresa. The "Nicholas Martin" is significant, for three Nicholas Martins---father, son, and grandson--- in succession served the Conochocheage Dunker congregation (now Broadfording Church of the Brethren) just north of Clear Spring, Md., on the Pennsylvania line.
But the plot has other elements which have other claims---in 1840, Jacob Foutz, grandson of Conrad Foutz, Sr., by son John, did LDS ordinances in proxy for his dead brother John. While there is no direct connection between John Fouts, of Mt. Eaton, and Jacob Foutz, both Jacob Foutz and his brother-in-law Jacob Hess, from the Dunker congregation area of Old Antietam on the Pennsylvania side of boundary with Washington Co. , Md., took up land in Richland Co., Ohio, at the same time and in the same area as did John Fouts, of Mt. Eaton, in 1830. Both Jacob Foutz and Jacob Hess subsequently became Mormon converts, went to Missouri with the Saints, were in the Hawn's Mill Massacre (where Jacob Foutz was, seriously wounded), retreated back to Illinois, settled in Nauvoo, and ultimately went West with the first wagon trains to Utah. Jacob Foutz had a brother John who was dead in 1840. John Fouts, of Mt. Eaton, died in 1837 His family stayed together near Mt. Eaton, Ohio, until the early 1850s, when George Jacob went to Peoria, Illinois, and became a miner. The rest of the family also moved to Illinois---then shortly after the Civil War, settled in Hardin Co., Iowa. John Fouts, Jr. remained on the same land near Mt. Eaton, did not marry until late in life, had one daughter. George W. married in Illinois, had a big family, mostly boys. Nicholas M. was past 50 when he married, but managed to sire two boys and a girl before he died. The family is gone from Hardin Co., Iowa, now---drifted away after W.W.I; most went to Oregon, according to the locals around Eldora, the county seat.
Just who John Fouts, of Mt. Eaton, Ohio, belongs to is still a toss-up. There was a lot of cross association between the Conococheage and Antietam Dunker congregations. The hatter connection and Clear Spring location is heavy circumstance favoring the Frederick Foutz, Jr., connection---but Frederick Foutz sold his interest in the valuable estate of his father Frederick, Sr., to a sister in 1811---and disappears from all further Washington Co., Md., records. Henry Fouts, hatter, of Clear Spring, does not appear in Washington Co. records until 1830, but was indebted to John Fouts before then---per notes in John's estate. Was John Fouts and Jacob Foutz taking up lands in Richland Co., Ohio, a coincidence? John had land in several northern Ohio counties. This one is going to require more documentation---from somewhere.
The Mystery Family of the Month - Can You Identify This Family?
In the search of Civil War records, Marion Jerome Fouts, as Jerome Fouts, was found in Co. A, 1st Battalion, Nevada Cavalry. Marion J. Fouts claimed to have been born on 28 March 1848 in Warsaw, Hancock Co., Illinois. When he enlisted in the Civil War, he was a miner in Nevada. During the War, his duty was entirely in Indian warfare in Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. After the war, he settled near Pauline, Adams Co., Nebraska, where he died on 27 Jul 1933. Thanks to Helen Squire, of Elyria, Ohio, we have the following data on Marion J. Fouts:
PARENTS: Daniel Fouts, b. 1818, married 27 Aug 1843 at Montrose, Iowa, by LDS Elder,
to Emmeline Perry, b. 1825.
CHILDREN: Marion Jerome Fouts b. 1845
David James Fouts b. 1847
John Lewis Fouts b. 1849, Warsaw, Illinois
Laura Ann Fouts b. 1851
Daniel Webster Fouts b. 1853, Hancock Co., Illinois
William Ashley Fouts b. 1855
Lyman Perry Fouts b. 1857
Lyman Perry is presumably the father of the mother. Samuel Fouts, son of Lemen Fouts, grandson of Andrew Fouts (of Brooke Co., now West Va.), married a Perry, but her father was William Perry. The "Ashley" has some family significance, because Marion J. named his eldest son "Henry Ashley." Does anyone recognize any of the elements of this family. Has anyone encountered it anywhere in Census searches? This data came to Mrs. Squire second hand from a cousin in California, who obtained it from a Perry Fouts several years back via a telephone conversation.
Social Notes and Previews of Coming Attractions
MOUNTAIN FOUTS OF NORTH CAROLINA - The descendants of Jacob Fouts (1786-1854), son of Leonard Fouts, Sr., of Theobald, Sr., will hold their five-year reunion on Friday, July 4, 1980, at the Iotla Elementary School near Franklin, North Carolina, starting at 10 a.m. sharp. This is fine affair, held way back in the Carolina mountains on the Little Tennessee River in the Cherokee Country. These folk are mighty hospitable, will welcome fraternal Fouts-Foutz as well as descendants of Jacob Fouts of Leonard. Dr. Davenport spoke at the 1975 Reunion, still hasn't got over the waxing that he took in horseshoes. Write Bob Fouts, Rte 9, Box 974, Franklin, N.C. 28734, or call Fred Fouts, (704) 524-2430 or Vance Fouts, (704) 524-6084. They'll help you with arrangements and tell you what to bring for the potluck.
FOUTS AND FOUTZ IN SALT LAKE CITY---Caroline Fouts Sarver, Helen Silvey, both of Sacramento, California; Shirley Fouts Spencer, of Mesa, Arizona, and Helen Fouts Tremlett, of Cape Canaveral, Florida, met In Salt Lake City, Utah, for a week's work each in the microfilm and records of The Genealogical Society of Utah. While there, they encountered Mildred Foutz, of Holbrook, Arizona, a LDS Genealogical librarian, also on a research tour. On Wednesday, May 14, the ladies hosted Dr. and Mrs. Davenport at dinner at the Hotel Utah. Guess what they talked about?