PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ NEWSLETTER
No. 12 DECEMBER, 1986 No. 12
Published by Dean R. Foutz, 1600 Kapiolani Blvd., Suite 1130, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814
A British Empire Loyalist?
A BLACK SHEEP FOUND? CHRISTIAN FOUTS WAS WEALTHIEST OF FAMILY IN AMERICA,
BUT HE WENT OVER TO THE BRITISH DURING THE REVOLUTION
Considering that much of the early Genealogical interest outside the Mormons was among the ladies seeking ancestry, to qualify for DAR membership, it is understandable that Christian Fouts, immigrant of 1750, has received no attention. By the time of the revolution, Christian Fouts was a respected land owner in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, and held the Commonwealth's commission as a Lieutenant Colonel or- Horse (cavalry). But, alas, when the fortunes of War were toted up in Philadelphia in 1783, Fouts' property was confiscated by Pennsylvania. He had turned his coat, gone over to the enemy, and if he was related to any of the others Pfautz, etc., they had no desire to share in his disgrace. No one has yet claimed him.
If Fouts survived the Revolution, where did he settle afterwards? It was not in Nova Scotia among the Loyalists who refugeed there in preference to living under the American flag. He made a claim to the British crown in 1785, asking to be reimbursed for his material losses for taking up the King's cause. But he did not have to be in Great Britain to accomplish that.
Now, let's address another Fouts enigma: who was the John Martin Fouts who pioneered in Northwest Louisiana in the first decade of the 1800? What were the roots of George Fouts, of Clay Co., Florida, who served in the Confederate Cavalry in Tennessee and got captured by the Yankees? And where did the Rev. Jesse Fouts of Galveston, Texas, come from? Research has uncovered a number of Fouts --- all in the Deep South --- who cannot be related to other Pfautz, etc., ancestries. Until the late 1830s, when North Carolina Fouts moved South to take up abandoned Cherokee lands, the movement was northwest or northwards.
Backtracking the Rev. Jesse Fouts led to Clay County, Florida, and Clay County, Florida, led to Barnwell and Bamberg counties, South Carolina, with the Fouts there living among clearly English neighbors, considerably away from the German settlements.
There's still much work to be done, but "Christian Foost" in the Census of 1790 seems to be first of these South Carolina Fouts. Christian was settled in the southern part of Orangeburgh District (now Barnwell and Bamberg counties). Every other Foost enumerated in South Carolina in 1790 was located in Richland Co., Camden District, near the North Carolina line. There were a goodly number there, but were so clustered that all of them are listed on page 26 of the printed Census. They were all, per later Census appearances, Fousts.
But Fouts was consistently the name that appeared in later censuses where Christian Foost had appeared in 1790. For the moment, well make a tentative identification of Immigrant Christian Fouts and his progeny. If you know your Revolutionary War history, you likely know why South Carolina was more understanding of turncoats than was generally true elsewhere.
There will be more on Christian Fouts' family line as we get into depth research.
CHRISTIAN FAUTS ARRIVED IN PHILADELPHIA IN AUGUST 1750 ON THE SHIP NANCY, THOMAS COATAM, MASTER, FROM ROTTERDAM BUT LAST FROM COWES. HIS NAME APPEARS ON THE PASSENGER ;MANIFEST IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE FAMOUS GLASSMAKER HENDRICK WILLEM STIEGEL, LATER OF MANHEIM, LANCASTER CO., PA. (Strasburger & Hinke, Ship List 155c).
Order of Immigrant Ancestors
For reference as well as for the information of our new readers, we repeat the PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ Ancestor List in order of emigration from Germany to America. The ancestor letter, e.g., (A), (B), etc., is used to identify lines within this Newsletter. This list is revised to January 1, 1987:
(A) Hans Michael PFAUTZ, Sr., of Lancaster Co., Pa.; Immigrant of 1727.
(B) Jacob PFAUTZ, of York Co., Pa.; Immigrant before 1730.
(C) Theobald (Dewald, David) PFAUTZ, of Frederick Co., Md., and Randolph Co., N,C.; Immigrant of 1738.
(D) Johan David PFAUTZ, of Lancaster Co., Pa.: Issue of first wife, Washington Co., Md., Issue of second wife,
Rowan (now Davidson) Co., N.C.; Immigrant of 1749.
(E) Christian FOUTS, of Lancaster Co., Pa., and Barnwell District, S.C.; immigrant of 1750.
(F) Conrad PFAUTZ, of York, Northumberland, Lancaster, and Franklin Cos., Pa.; Immigrant of 1752.
(G) John Jacob PFAUTZ, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Immigrant of 1783. (No male Issue known)
(H) Michael PFOUTS, Sr.. of Washington Co., Md., and Harrison Co., Ohio; Immigrant of 1787.
(I) John FOUTS, of Morgan Co., Ohio; Immigrant of 1820.
(J) Adam FOUTZ, of Adams Co., Pa.; Immigrant of 1839.
(K) Jacob FOUTZ, of Baltimore Co., Md.; Immigrant of 1849.
(L) Lewis FOUTZ, of Montgomery Co., Ohio: Immigrant of 1850.
(M) William FAUTZ. of San Francisco, Cal . ; Immigrant of 1855.
(N) Gottlief PFAUTZ, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Immigrant of 1857.
(0) William FOUTZ, of Norfolk, Va.; Immigrant of 1866.
Not included here are immigrants of the surname who did not have issue. i.e., have no descendants, and two yet unidentified females, issue unknown. There were at least a dozen of the surname who emigrated to America after the civil War. These will be added to the list as their immigrant dates become known. The PFAUTZ Family originates in the Lower Neckar Valley, east of the Rhine, in what is now Baden and Wurtemberg states of West Germany.
OBITUARY - Loose Files INDIANA STATE LIBRARY
James Mahlon Fouts, son of Silas and Phoebe Fouts, was born in Wayne county, Ind., Nov. 30, 1852; died Jan. 2, 1908, age 55 years, 1 month and 2 days. He was married Martha A. Strickler, Dec. 22, 1873. To this union were born four children --- Cora, Allen, Clarence and Lenna, all of whom are living.
He was converted and joined the Church of the United Brethren in Christ at Sugar Grove ...about 37 years ago..."
PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ NEWSLETTER
is published more-or-less Quarterly by Dean R, Foutz , 1600 Kapiolani Blvd., Suite 1130, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814, and is written and edited by Dr. John Scott Davenport, 1101N American Towers, 48 West 300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. Dean Foutz is a descendant of Conrad Foutz, immigrant of 1753. Dr. Davenport is a descendant of Jacob Pfautz, immigrant before 1730. This publication is a non-profit venture in the better definition of the Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz and related surname lineages in America an Germany. Subscription is obtainable without obligation by writing Dean Foutz.
Contributions to help support the printing and mailing costs are welcome, and should be sent to Dean Foutz. Data, Items, Queries for the Newsletter should be sent to Dr. Davenport.
If you have a missing link or seek identification of your Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz ETC., Lineage, Dr. Davenport wil1 search the files without cost --- other than postage. Always include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your request.
Be patient about replies. Dean Foutz is a General Agent for Connecticut Mutual Insurance in the State of Hawaii. Dr. Davenport is vice-president, Research and Development for Bonneville International Corporation. Genealogy is a sideline --- sometimes has to be placed on the bback burner.
A Major Breakthrough:
PFOUTS WHO HAD MOVED TO CANADA IDENTIFIED 'BARON' JOHN's
SECOND WIFE IN 1927 MANUSCRIPT
You never know where you're going to find the missing pieces. When John W. Pfouts, 72, grandson of Reuben Pfouts and Ann Eagler, visited his old family home in Paint Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, in 1927, he noted that his kin had lost track of their origins and put together a manuscript of the Pfouts family genealogy as he understood it.
By then a resident of Hardisty, Alberta, Canada, John W. Pfouts, began with his great grandfather John Pfoutz, pioneer of Pfoutz Valley, Perry Co., Pennsylvania. John, the land baron, and his wife Margaret Bast. had six children, John W. said. They were: 'Michael, 1745 - 1827; Leonard, 1747 - ?; John, Jr., 1751 - ?; George, 1755 - 1835; Martha Pfouts Cameron, 1757 - ?; and David, 1762 - ?.
Not bad, but the evidence is that John of Pfoutz Valley was married first to Anna Kline, and that their children were: Leonard, 1742 - 1813; Michael, 1745 - 1827; George, 1755 - 1835; Elizabeth Pfoutz Reinhardt, 1758 - ?; and David, 1762 - 1821,
Anna was dead by 1769, because thereafter a Margaret signed with John Pfoutz on his many land conveyances. Margaret Bast would have been John's second wife and the mother of Israel Pfoutz, another of John's sons.
The John, Jr., is a maybe---there is tax role evidence, that both a John, Jr., and a Leonard, both of Pfoutz Valley, were assessed in 1780 and 1781 in Cumberland Co., Pa. But when Uncle Leonard Kline remembered his namesake, John's son Leonard, in 1788, he identified him as John Pfoutz, Jr., and there is no Pfoutz Valley evidence of another John besides John Leonard Pfoutz, the eldest son, among John, Sr.'s children.
The Martha Pfouts Cameron error is more of Old Senator Simon Cameron's doing, most likely. Simon's mother Martha was a daughter of Conrad Foutz and his wife Elizabeth by overwhelming documentary evidence, but Conrad, although a French and Indian War and a Revolutionary War veteran, had certain disabilities for Pennsylvania politics of the mid- and late Nineteenth Century. Conrad had been an economic failure (died on welfare) and too many of Cameron's Pfoutz cousins had joined the peculiar Mormons. So Senator Cameron moved in with the Pfoutz Valley family, claimed Conrad, but made him a son of Hans Michael Pfautz (A). Both John Eby Pfautz in his book (1881) and John W. Pfouts in his manuscript (1927) took the Senator at his word --- and included him in their genealogies. Simon Cameron and his son Donald represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate for almost 50 years and virtually controlled the Republican Party in Pennsylvania. If he’d claimed kinship to you, would you have denied him? (But we've been around the Cameron barn before, so let's move on.)
In a county history biography printed in 1881, John W.'s father David had described his ancestor as having come from Italy, but John W. had read John Eby Pfautz' book on the family and accepted the Swiss origin and the 1709 emigration to America (both wrong), but John W. exceeded David's outrageous narrative of how come John Pfoutz (pioneer of Pfoutz Valley) came by all that land. David had John being such a paragon among the Indians that they bestowed large tracts upon him. John W, had John being a "White Boy" among the Indians and wove a tale that ultimately included the "treacherous Delaware" and the “perfidious Shawnee" and Simon Girty and what-all. John W. got so caught up in his story that he lost track of dates --- and had John still being a respected "White Boy" hunter among the Indians when John was in his late sixties. If you want to read fiction, these Pfouts have a talent for it: David Pfouts, John W. Pfouts, Paris Swayze Pfouts, and Wm. George Pfouts, all descendants of John, Sr., via his son George, Sr. David was of Holmes Co., Ohio; John W. of Canada; Paris of Texas; and William G. of Montana. For those who would like to read John W.’s manuscript, which includes considerably more than reported here, write for a copy. Our thanks to Donald A. Knowlton, of North Royalton, Ohio, a descendant of Reuben Pfouts and Anne Eagler, who passed along a copy of the manuscript.
For those of you still filling in family sheets: George Pfouts, son of 'Baron' John, was married twice: his first wife was Sarah Woodrown (according to David); and his second wife was Ann Cole (Widow Eagler). By Sarah, George fathered Simeon (Clinton Co., Pa.), David (Augusta Co., Va.), Rebecca Pfouts Shane (Tuscarawas Co., Ohio); Reuben (Holmes Co., Ohio), and Sarah Pfouts Edgington (Crawford Co., Ohio). By Ann Cole Eagler, he had George, Jr. (Holt Co., Mo.). George died in 1835 at Mt. Eaton, Wayne Co., Ohio, and is buried there. George Pfouts, Sr., and all four of his sons, wherever they located, were millers.
We dwell perhaps overlong on this family, but this is where we've had most of the interest during the past three months. We have also heard from a gentleman in California who has a wrong side of the blanket connection but nevertheless has a fierce pride in his "Baron" John Pfoutz ancestry. Good for him!
A Solved Problem Revisited:
TEN YEARS AFTERWARDS, DEFINITIONS OF FAMILIES OF CONRAD FOUTZ, SR.,
AND SON JOHN FOUTZ REQUIRE LITTLE REVISION
We have a number of letters lately asking about the status of the family definitions of Conrad Foutz, Sr., and of his son John, both of whom are crucial in further developing the ancestry of Bishop Jacob Foutz, pioneer Mormon Bishop of Nauvoo, Illinois, and the Salt Lake Valley. In a recent visit to Salt Lake City, Dean R. Foutz went over the two family sheets with us and requested documentation. That we will do, but first we'll publish the two families here, and comment on what research activity has occurred during the past decade.
CONRAD FOUTZ, 1734 - 1818
Born 1734, Zweibruecken, Germany; emigrated to America, 1752; married, likely York Co., Pa., cl760; died 1818, Washington Twp., Franklin Co., Pa.
HIS WIFE
ELIZABETH ? , 1733-1822
Born 1733, place unknown; died 6 Oct 1822, Lewisburg, Union Co., Pa., while living with daughter Martha Cameron. Name on tombstone in Cameron plot, Lewisburg, Pa., is spelled "Pfoutz”.
Children: DAUGHTER
1. ANNA MARIA FOUTZ ALLEMAN, 1761 - 1819
Born 1761, Shrewsbury Twp., York Co., Pa.; married Henry Alleman, Derry Twp., Lancaster (now Dauphin) Co., Pa., 20 May 1781; died 1819, Dauphin Co., Pa. Children.
SON
2. MICHAEL FOUTZ, cl763 - ?
Born c1763, Shrewsbury Twp., York Co., Pa.; married ?; died ?. (This is one of most frustrating, for there is evidence that Michael remained in Derry Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa. for at least 30 years after father left, but nothing in land, court, or probate records. A number of Foutz in Lancaster Co., Pa., appear to be descendants of Michael's but no proofs yet.)
SON
3. CONRAD FOUTZ, Jr., cl765 - 1843
Born c1765, Shrewsbury Twp., York Co., Pa., married Mary Baker, possibly others, before, after; disappears from records in 1788 in Derry Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1788; reappears in Frederick Co., Md., in mid-1820s; moved to Dayton, Ohio, before 1830; died in Dayton, Oct 1843, At least seven children, likely more.
SON
4. JOHN FOUTZ, 1768 - 1803
Born 1768, Hopewell Twp., York Co., Pa.; married Elizabeth Hinkle, cl790; died Jul 1803, in or near Washington Twp., Franklin Co., Pa.. Five children.
SON
5. GEORGE FOUTZ, 1771 - 1861
Born 6 Apr 1771, Hopewell Twp., York Co., Pa.; married Elizabeth Henlein, c1797; died 10 Oct 1861, Ellisville, Fulton Co., Illinois, A number of children.
DAUGHTER
6. MARTHA FOUTZ CAMERON, 1771-1830
Born 7 Apr 1771, twin of George, Hopewell Twp., York Co., Pa.; married Charles Cameron, c1794; died 10 Nov 1830, Lewisburg, Union Co., Pa. A number of children,
DAUGHTER
7. ANNA BARBARA FOUTZ, 1773 - ?
Born Jan 1773, Hopewell Twp., York Co., Pa.; no record found since baptismal record.
SON
8. HENRY FOUTZ, c1775 - c18O4
Born c1775. Buffalo Twp., Northumberland Co., Pa.; married ?, 1796, Franklin Co., Pa.; died c18O4. One son, Jacob, whose sketchy biography by son roughly outlines Henry.
DAUGHTER
9. SUSANNAH FOUTZ HINKLE, 1779 - 185?
Born 1779, Derry Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa. married Gasper Hinkle, brother of Elizabeth Hinkle, c1799; died after 1850, Washington Twp., Franklin Co., Pa.
Two Possible members of this family have been disqualified. Jacob Foutz, of Bedford Co., VA., is more likely as son of John David, Pfautz, immigrant of 1749, than of Conrad Sr.
But all the evidence is still not in. Jacob Foutz of Bedford Co., Va., was a barrelmaker by trade, the same trade as Conrad, John, and George above. But there is no evidence that there was a Jacob in Conrad's family. In John David Fouts' family, a Jacob was in the records of Rowan Co., N.C., until 1793 when Jacob of Bedford appeared there, located just east of the Great Wagon Road to the Carolinas. Jacob of Bedford was associated with both Lutheran and Dunker families --- as was Conrad Foutz' family in Franklin Co., Pa, and John David's family in North Carolina. No help there.
But the second rejection is definite: William Foutts, of Fayette Co., Pa. (1800) and Columbiana Co., Ohio (thereafter), has been specifically identified as a son of Leonard Fought (pronounced "Fout") of Fayette Co., Pa. (So, henceforth, Foutts = Fought and Foutz(s)=Pfautz, but we'll still keep track of them for a number of the Foutts have dropped the second “t," and have merged their surname identity: Fouts=Fouts, but does it?)
A thorough sweep of the records in Zweibruecken, Germany, provided no help. Pfautz Is not a surname of west of the Rhine. Prior to the 1800, seemingly it was exclusive to the Lower Neckar Valley, east of the Rhine. When we can raise the funds, we'll resume the quest in earnest, east of the Rhine. It requires a genealogical researcher who can read and translate Old German script once access is gained to the Lutheran and Reformed Parish records in Germany or the LDS Library in Salt Lake City (microfilm), Either way, it costs money because it's a search for needle in a haystack.
And now, the family of Conrad's son ,John:
JOHN FOUTZ, 1768-1803
Data as before. Was probated in 1803, with a virtually destitute estate.
HIS WIFE
ELIZABETH HINKLE FOUTZ, 1771-c1812
Born 12 Apr 1771, Maytown, Lancaster Co., Pa., daughter of Henry Hinkle and Anna Magdalena Rudolph; married John Foutz c1790; as Widow, married Solomon Seacrist, son of John Seacrist, c1805, Franklin Co., Pa.; died c1812, Washington Twp., Franklin County.
Elizabeth’s second marriage is inferred by a statement made by John W. Hess, a grandson of John Foutz, in 1869 when he visited kinfolk in Franklin Co., Pa., from his home in Davis Co., Utah. He headquartered at the home of Elizabeth Riley in Greencastle, and identified her as a "dear sister of his mother." John W. Hess, a veteran of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War and for many years President of Davis Stake of the LDS Church, was the son of Jacob Hess and Eliza Foutz, Elizabeth Riley was the daughter of Solomon Seacrist. The only way that she could have been a sister to Elizabeth Foutz was if Solomon Seacrist had been married to the Widow Elizabeth Hinkle Foutz and the two Elizabeth's had had the same mother. If you think that's complicated, look what's coming;
Children: DAUGHTER
1. MARY FOUTZ SEACRIST, 1792 - 1860
Born 25 Dec 1792, Maytown, Lancaster Co., Pa., married Solomon Seacrist, son of John, c18l4, Washington Twp., Franklin Co., Pa.; died, 24 Feb 1860, same place. Elizabeth's eldest daughter succeeded her as Solomon's second wife: he was ten years younger than his first wife, ten older than his second. Mary was the mother of a number of children, including Jacob Foutz Seacrist who joined the Mormon church in Hancock Co., Illinois, in the 1840s, and who died on the Mormon Trail in Nebraska, returning from a Mission to Germany and leading a company of emigrants to Zion, in the late 1850s. It's too big a story for this small space.
SON
2. JOHN FOUTZ, c1795 - Before 1840
Born c1795, Maytown, Lancaster Co., Pa; died before 1840 when his brother Jacob was baptized vicariously (Baptism of the Dead) at Nauvoo, Illinois. Appears for three years on Tax Lists of Washington Twp., Franklin Co., Pa., 1819 - 1822, as single man, stonemason.
DAUGHTER
3 ELIZABETH FOUTZ HESS, 1797 - 1876
Born 22 Jun 1797, Washington Twp., Franklin Co., Pa.; married Jacob Hess, c18l6; moved to Ohio, c1826; joined Mormons in Richland Co., Ohio, in 1833, moved to Missouri, experienced persecutions, moved to Illinois, experienced persecutions, was in first wagon companies to Utah in 1846. Was mother of John W. Hess, who had eight wives, 62 children.
SON
4. JACOB FOUTZ, 1800 - 1848
Born 20 Nov 1800, Washington Twp., Franklin Co., Pa.; married Margaret Mann, 22 Jul 1822; Moved to Ohio, c1826; joined Mormons in Richland Co., Ohio, in 1833, moved to Missouri, was badly wounded in Hauns Mill Massacre; refugeed to Hancock Co., Illinois; then to Nauvoo when was one of Bishops; in first wagon train to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847; was one of first Bishops there; died 14 Feb 1848 as the result of eating a poisonous root, mistaken for being edible, The patriarch of the many Mormon Foutz.
SON
5. MICHAEL FOUTZ, c1802-c1810
Born c1800; died c18l0. The only evidence of the existence of this child is the fact that Bishop Jacob Foutz performed vicarious baptism for him in Nauvoo in 1846. To have the rite performed, Michael had to have lived to the age of eight (those who die before age eight are blameless, do not require baptism according to LDS doctrine). JSD
One Jacob Found, One Still Missing:
SON OF BISHOP HANS MICHAEL HERETOFORE LOST, FOUND BURIED IN WESTMORELAND CO., PA,
Our thanks to Daniel R. Pfoutz, of Gibsonia, Pa., for clearing up another of the nagging family mysteries. Bishop Hans Michael Pfautz of the Conestoga Dunkers (Church of the Brethren), who was disowned by his Lutheran father Hans Michael, Sr. (A), had three sons, one daughter: Michael, who settled and died on Pipe Creek waters, Frederick (now Carroll) Co., Md.; Catherine who married Peter Crumpacker, and is believed to have died in Virginia after also being at Pipe Creek, Md.; Jacob, who lived at Coventry in Chester Co., Pa; and John, the youngest, who heired the home place in Warwick Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa., and there died.
Don Bowman, past president of the Fellowship of Brethren Genealogists, and a devoted searcher of old records and discoverer of grave sites, a surveyor by profession, and a resident of Brookville, Montgomery Co., Ohio, has been threatening for years to go back to the Urner Cemetery, Chester Co., Pa. and find Jacob, son of Bishop Hans Michael, therein. A descendant of Jacob and his wife Mary Bach, Don found Mary's grave in Montgomery Co., Ohio, a number of years ago, with a death date of 1819.
It is known, through various land records, that the family of Jacob and Mary began to leave Chester Co., Pa., starting in 1803, some going to Pipe Creek in Maryland, others, going to Montgomery Co., Ohio, both of which were Dunker congregation areas. No one paid much attention to the exception: Jacob, son of Jacob and Mary, who went off by himself and settled in Westmoreland Co., Pa.. Jacob, Jr., according to a history of the Church of the Brethren for Southwest Pennsylvania, was in the Dunker ministry, but used the name of James Fouch, a semi-Anglicization of' his German identification. When John Eby Pfautz did the family in 1881, he noted that there was not much information about Jacob, Jr., and John Eby Pfautz did not have a tad of an idea as to what happened to Jacob, Sr., and wife Mary.
The mother, Mary Bach Pfoutz, had moved to Montgomery, Ohio, likely to live with son Samuel (the eldest), and died there. Family reconstruction had settled upon Jacob, Sr., dying in Chester Co., Pa., and the family scattering to the various Dunker areas,
Daniel R. Pfoutz, seeking to help this Newsletter, advised that his great-grandfather Jacob Pfoutz was buried in an old cemetery on the farm where he was born and reared, and the farm was still in the family. The graven image on the headstone is "Jacob Pfoutz, died Jan. 23, 1818, Age 81 yrs.”
Daniel R. Pfoutz noted that his great-grandfather had been married to Barbara Demuth (1768-1840). It took several days, but all of a sudden the bells started to ring. With those dates, the Jacob was not Daniel’s great-grandfather, it was Jacob, Sr., who had been married to Mary Bach! But what was he doing in Westmoreland Co., Pa., halfway between Chester Co., Pa., and Montgomery Co., Ohio? And that, of course, is most likely the answer. The old couple were on their way West, stopped at Jacob, Jr., and Old Jacob died there. The Widow Mary Pfoutz continued West to her son Samuel's, and died there a year later.
But Daniel R. Pfoutz is baffled. All these years, he's thought that he had identified his great-grandfather's gravesite. His great-grandmother Barbara Demuth Pfoutz is there, but now---Where's great-grandpa? Daniel was unaware of the James Fouch legend, but will check it out as soon as he recovers from a series of eye operations.
But bit-by-bit the pieces go together. How much more we know now than when we began this quest almost 20 years ago,