PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ NEWSLETTER
No, 9 March, 1986 No. 9
Published by Dean R. Foutz , 1600 Kapiolani Blvd., Suite 1130, Honolulu , Hawaii 96814
EDITOR - DR. JOHN SCOTT DAVENPORT
1101 N AMERICAN TOWERS
48 WEST 300 SOUTH
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84101
PLEASE ADDRESS ALL GENEALOGICAL CORRESPONDENCE TO DR. DAVENPORT
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 to identify the subject matter within the purview of this Newsletter. There have been no additions since the list issued on July 1, 1981:
(A) Hans Michael PFAUTZ, Sr., of Lancaster Co., Pa.; Immigrant of 1727.
(B) Jacob PFAUTZ, of York Co., Pa.; Immigrant before 1730.
(C) Theobald PFAUTZ, (David Fouts, Sr.), of Randolph Co., N.C.; Immigrant of 1738.
(D) John David PFAUTZ, of Washington Co., Md., (issue of first wife); Rowan - Davidson Cos.,
N.C. (issue of second wife), Immigrant of 1749.
(E) Conrad FOUTZ, of Franklin Co., Pa.; Immigrant of 1752.
(F) Johann Jacob PFAUTZ, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Immigrant of 1773.
(G) Michael PFOUTS, Sr.. of Harrison Co., Ohio; Immigrant of 1787.
(H) John FOUTS, of Morgan Co., Ohio; Immigrant of 1820.
(I) Adam FOUTZ, of Adams Co., Pa.; Immigrant of 1839.
(J) Jacob FOUTZ, of Baltimore Co., Md.; Immigrant of 1849.
(K) Lewis FOUTZ, of Montgomery Co., Ohio: Immigrant of 1850.
(L) Adam FOUTZ, of Dearborn Co., Ind.; Immigrant of 1854.
(M) William FAUTZ. of San Francisco, Calif., Immigrant of 1855.
(N) Gottlieb PFAUTZ, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Immigrant of 1857.
(0) William FOUTZ, of Norfolk, Va.; Immigrant of 1866.
In the Seventeenth Century (1600s) the PFAUTZ were located on both sides of the Neckar River, east of the Rhine, in what is now Baden and Wurtemberg States, Germany.
WE TRY AGAIN!
NEWSLETTER RESUMES PUBLICATION AFTER THREE-YEAR SUSPENSION
In response to many requests and some earnest pleading by Chloe Foutz, of Lincoln Nebraska, The PFF Newsletter resumes publication with this issue. We pick up where we left off three years ago with the same Publisher and same Editor.
Addresses have changed for many, so it will take a few months to become fully re-established. Dr. Davenport is now Vice President, Research and Analysis, for Bonneville International Corporation, one of the largest broadcasting companies in the United States, headquartered in Salt Lake City and will undertake genealogy research and writing on the same basis as he did when located in Cincinnati, namely gratis but on his own time schedule and priorities. He will endeavor to keep The PFF Newsletter on a quarterly basis--- four issues a year.
Publisher Dean Foutz will, as in the past, be responsible for the publishing and mailing of the Newsletter from Honolulu. Dean invites all so disposed to help fund the Newsletter to write to him at the above Hawaii address. Checks made out to The Jacob Foutz Family Association will be tax-deductible, and will help assure that the Newsletters continue. Please also let us know of any family address changes.
It may take us several issues to get back to the quality that we had attained when we were forced to discontinue in late 1982 (No. 8), but we have considerable material yet to publish--- and Dr. Davenport has continued to accumulate Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz material in the interim.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR MOST COLORFUL FOUTS:
“Dr." SILAS HEDGES FOUTS ABANDONED TWO FAMILIES; ONE IN OHIO, ONE IN COLORADO
Another perambulating Fouts has been found! Silas Hedges Fouts, a carpenter by trade left Morgan Co., Ohio, in 1857, ostensibly to view what was going on in the California gold fields. He was never heard from again --- plumb dropped out of sight. He left five orphans behind who were spread out among his relatives. His eldest son Jacob was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga, during the Civil War.
In September, 1984, Esther Kooiman, of Pt. Reyes Station, California, wrote Dr. Davenport to inquire if he could identify a Silas H. Fouts, Physician, enumerated with wife and six children in Oro City, Lake Co., Colorado in the Census of 1870. He was her gg-grand father --- a man of mystery who abandoned his family around 1872.
Now, Colorado is a bit far from California --- and Medicine is even farther from Carpentry --- and would a man abandon five children to have six more? Dr. Davenport advised Mrs. Kooiman that he could not identify Dr. Fouts, but she should look among the Morgan Co., Ohio, Fouts, seeing as how the Census said he was born in Ohio, and the Morgan Fouts were partial to the given name “Silas.”
Fourteen months later, while reviewing data of various Fouts enigmas, Dr. Davenport decided to take a look at that 1870 Colorado Census. Inasmuch as the facts matched, excepting the age, Mrs. Kooiman had given "31" as the Doctor's age in 1870, he wondered if there might have been a misreading of a “5" as a "3" Silas Hedges Fouts of Morgan Co., Ohio, was born in 1819, would have been 51 in the Census of 1870.
The Census clearly said, “51.” It was him! The missing carpenter!
According to Mrs. Kooiman, Dr. Fouts was in a silver mining partnership as well a physician. In Colorado Mining legend and lore, there are several stories about "Doc" Fouts, his partner, and various Indians. The Doc had some peculiar ideas about dosages--- but his partner said that he was only "a doctor of sorts."
This family, too, was one of tragedies. The second wife, a Leah, died within a decade after the Doc abandoned them. Mrs. Kooiman traced down the three sons--- it wasn't hard. None married. All were hard living miners, who died relatively young. Two of them suicides. There were no Fouts surnames passed on.
Where did Doc Fouts go? Well, there's the possibility of Australia. One of the stories back in Morgan Co., Ohio, was that Silas Hedges Fouts had gone to Australia. Maybe, he finally got there. But there was also the Yukon. Anyone know where those Fouts in British Columbia originated?
JACOB PFAUTZ PATRINYMIC GENEALOGY
PROGRESSING, BUT STILL HAS BUGS
Dr. Davenport advises that work on his own Fouts ancestor, Jacob Pfautz, of York Co., Pa., immigrant before 1730, is moving along slowly. One stumbling block, Solomon Fouts, son of David Fouts and Martha Parr, of Washington Co., Indiana, who moved to East Tennessee in the late 1830s, has been overcome. Solomon returned to Indiana in the 1830s, settled briefly in Vermillion County, and then moved on to Fayette Co., Illinois. Most of his large family has now been identified and located.
Little progress has been made relative to the lines of David Fouts and Andrew Fouts, elder sons of Andrew Fouts of Brooke Co., (W) Virginia. Descendants of both are yet unclear and there are loose ends in West Virginia, Morgan Co., Ohio; Lee Co., Iowa; and Oregon.
And there are Fouts in Muskingum Co., Ohio, who appear to be descendants of Andrew, but do not fit into any possible family combinations.
WHEN LOOKING FOR FAMILY NAME
IN SOUNDEX, DON'T FORGET "FONTS"
Those of you who use the U.S. Census Soundex when searching the Census of 1880, 1900, and 1910 are advised to add "Fonts," F532, to your search pattern.
In the handwritten enumerations, “u" is often identified as “n" by the Soundex transcribers and roughly one out of ten Fouts, Foutz, etc., are coded F532 instead of the proper F320, which means you may miss the families you are seeking, believe they were not enumerated in the Census.
The Censuses of 1900 (completely Soundexed) and 1910 (partially Soundexed) generally note confusions; that is, they indicate that a name could be "Fouts" or "Fonts" and list it both as F320 and F132.
For those of you unfamiliar with the subject, the Bureau of Census recognized more than 100 years ago that surnames could be spelled various ways --- and worked out the Soundex System so that all names that sound alike can be commonly identified, regardless of spelling. Hence, both "Fouts" and "Foutz" are F320. Similarly, Pfautz, Pfauts, and Pfouts are all P132.
Soundex is a real time-saver when you're running down a family and do not want to read every listing in a county.
BACK TO NORTH CAROLINA---AND THAT SECOND FAMILY OF JOHN DAVID PFAUTZ
In an earlier Newsletter (No. 8) we gave you a rather detailed analysis and identification of the family of Frederick Foutz, eldest and only surviving son of John David Pfautz's first family. Pfautz was an immigrant to America in 1749. Now, we give you a first roughout of the families of John David's next five sons, all of whom were in his second family by Anna Barbara, Widow Hon (Hahn), who John David married in 1759 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster, Pa. Frederick Foutz, you'll recall, was located in Washington Co., Md., and only his son David ventured South into North Carolina, but did not stay there, ultimately residing and dying in Preble Co., Ohio.
These Fouts (Frederick and his family mostly used the Foutz surname) were unlike the other North Carolina Fouts in their emigration patterns.
The five sons in the second family of John David Pfautz were:
NICHOLAS, b. cl760, Lancaster, Pa., m. cl793, Mary ----- ; d. 1820, Rowan (now Davidson) Co., N.C. Children: Nelly, b. cl795; m. Martin Miller. Polly, b. cl797, m(l) Nedam Temples, m(2) James Mitchell. Susan, b. cl8O3, m. James Owens. Elizabeth, b. cl8O5, m.?. Catherine, b. cl8O7, m.?. Sarah, b. cl8O9, m.?. David, b. 1815, m. Christianna ------- (David, son of Nicholas, had moved southwest and was living in Rowan Co., N.C., in the Census of 1850. Nicholas had sold out in Rowan (now Davidson) County and had bought land in Lincoln County to the southwest when he died in 1820. He apparently never occupied the Lincoln County land.)
PETER, b. 1761, Lancaster, Pa., m. cl788, Catherine Myers; d. 1811, Rowan (now Davidson) Co., N.C. Children: Elizabeth, b. cl790, m. Daniel Secrist, (to Morgan Co., Indiana). Charity, b. c1793, m. Daniel Rickard. David, b. 29 Oct 1795, m. Eleanor Sullivan, d. 29 Sep 1875, Davidson Co., N.C.. Jacob, b. 1800, m.?, d. cl855, Marion Co., Indiana. John, b. 14 Mar 1802, M. Catherine Lentz, d. I Sep 1882, Boone Co., Indiana. Susan, b. c1804, last found, unmarried, in Marion Co., Indiana, in 1840. Polly, b. 1806, last found, unmarried, in Marion Co., Indiana, in 1850. Peter, b. 1810, never married, d. 22 Oct 1899 in Marion Co., Indiana.
JOHN, b. cl763, Lancaster, Pa., m. cl793, Barbara Black (Schwartz), d. 1835, Davidson Co., N.C.. Children: Elizabeth, b. cl794, m. Philip Hepler. Solomon, m. Mary ------ d. Nov 1840, Davidson Co., N.C.. Jacob, b. 4 Aug 1798, m. Mary Magdelena Long, d. 13 Jun 1854, Davidson Co., N.C.. David, b. c1804, m. Sarah ? , left Davidson Co., N.C., during Civil war, not located. Catherine, b. c1806, m. David Myers. Barbara, b. 25 Jul 1808, m. Andrew Shuler, d. 1879, Davidson Co., N.C.. Daniel, b. 1813, m. Phebe ------ d . 1863, Davidson Co., N.C.
DAVID, b. cl767, Lancaster Co., Pa., m. Amelia (Permelia?) Avery, d. Aug 1817, Harrison Co., Indiana. Children: Susannah, b. 1795, m. William Ingram, d. after 1850, Orange Co., Indiana. Mary (Polly), b. cl797, m, William Ingram, d.1817, Harrison Co., Indiana. Elizabeth, b. 1800, m. Matthew Sappenfield, d. after 1850, Orange Co., Indiana. David, b. 31 Aug 1803, m. Belinda Byrn, d.23 Jan 1888, Harrison Co., Indiana. Absalom, b. 4 Jan 1806, ml. Matilda Sears, m2, Eliza Jane Byerly, d. 24 Nov 1891, Harrison Co., Indiana. Sarah, b. 1808, m. George Huffstutter. John, b. 1810, ml. Hulda Ellis, m2. Rachel Ellis, d. ?. Jane, b. cl8l3, m. Samuel McColly. Daniel, b. 1816, ml? (in Iowa), m2. Elizabeth Sears, d. ?.
JACOB, b. cl765, Lancaster Co., Pa., m, Judah Baker, d, Feb 1840, Bedford Co., Va. Children: John S., b. cl788, m. Elizabeth Spickard, d. Feb 1852. Jacob b. 11 Jan 1790, m. Harriet Spickard, d, 22 Apr 1836, Botetourt Co., Va. (War of 1812 veteran). Phebe, b. 1800, m. Henry Spickard, d. after 1850, Botetourt Co., Va. George E., b. 1800 (Twin of Phebe?), m. Mildred Buford, d. after 1870, Roanoke Co., Va. Abraham, b. 1805, m. Polly Cundiff, moved from area in 1860s, untraced. Daniel, b. 1806, m. Polly Buford, d. Oct 1872, Bedford Co., Va. Elizabeth, b. 1809, ml. Jeremiah Quarles, m2. Jeremiah Tenbroek, d. Johnson Co., Mo., after 1870. William W., b. 1817, m. Elizabeth Baker, d. after 1900 in Polk Co., Mo.
John David Pfautz' second family appeared on Hambys Creek, Rowan (now Davidson) Co., N.C., within a half mile or so of the Randolph County line in 1777-78. Both Nicholas and Peter were in Washington Co., Md., 1786-1790, likely among their mother's relatives. Jacob left North Carolina in 1793, apparently going due north into the German settlement on the saddleback of the Blue Ridge where the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to the Carolinas left the Great Valley of Virginia and crossed into the Piedmont. With few exceptions, all of the Fouts East of the Yadkin River in North Carolina after 1850 were from this family. David, of this family, was located in Lincoln Co., N.C., from 1802 until 1815, and moved to Indiana in concert with the Averys and the Sappenfields, John Sappenfield was guardian of Nicholas' minor children in Davidson Co., N.C., in 1824. The family was mixture of Dunker and Lutheran in North Carolina, and was Dunker or Disciples of Christ in Indiana.
Dr. Davenport's great-grandfather Henry Hoover Davenport was associated with these Fouts, Peter's descendants, in Zionsville, Boone Co., Indiana, and his grandfather William A. Davenport served in the same Civil War regiment and company as David R. Fouts, grandson of Peter.
THEY FOUGHT THE CIVIL WAR IN THE WEST
IOWA FAMILY MEMBERS TOOK HEAVY CASUALTIES, FOUGHT BOTH REBELS AND INDIANS
Picking up where we left off (No. 8), we continue the detailing of all those Pfautz, Fouts, Foutz, etc., who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. These abstracts are taken from military and pension records in the National Archives, Washington, D.C. Here are all those who served in Iowa regiments: ("Ancestries" below refer to Immigrant Ancestors on Page 1)
ALEXANDER FOUTS - Pvt., Co. E, 3rd Iowa Cavalry; enlisted 17 Aug 1861 for three years at Bloomfield, Iowa; served in Missouri and Arkansas; severely ruptured by being thrown from his horse in the Battle of Moore's Mill, Missouri; given Disability discharge on 12 Dec 1862 at Houston, Mo. Tried to re-enlist on 25 May 1864 in Co. F, 45th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, but was refused mustering because of physical condition. Pension file XC2693745 is presently not open for public inspection. Military Discharge notes he was born in Preble Co., Ohio, was 28 when he enlisted in 1861. (Alexander Fouts was the son of Austin Fouts, grandson of William Fouts and Sarah Davenport, resided in Drakesville, Davis Co., Iowa, Ancestry B.)
ASBURY L. FOUTS - Pvt., Co. I, 9th Iowa Infantry; enlisted 19 Oct 1864 at Des Moines as a substitute for Eleazar Flinney, a drafted man, of Washington Twp., Taylor Co., Iowa. Military records largely lost, but was sent to Nashville, joined regiment, and apparently was in Sherman March to the Sea and then northward. Picked up finally in records at Goldsboro, N.C., on 1 Mar 1865; discharged 18 Jul 1865 at Louisville, Ky. According to his voluminous pension file, he was born 27 May 1845 in Jefferson Co., Iowa, married Rebecca A. Price on 6 Aug 1868 in Taylor Co., Iowa, and had children: Eri Chase Fouts, b. 1 Jul 1869, d. 23 Sep 1875; Frank Price Fouts, b. 5 Dec 1870; Ernest Willard Fouts, b. 16 Aug 1872; Esther Millie Fouts, b. 26 May 1876, d, 8 Mar 1878; Maude Mary Fouts, b. 27 Apr 1878; Wright K. Fouts, b. 14 Nov 1881, d. 15 Feb 1903; Wendell Loyd Fouts, b. 23 Sep 1883; Grace May Fouts, 6 Mar 1883. Asbury L. Fouts and family moved to Saline Co., Kansas, in 1881, where he died 4 Dec 1929 and his wife died 22 Dec 1939, (Asbury L. Fouts was the son Eri W. Fouts and Philetha Leaming. Ancestry C.)
GEORGE H. FOUTS - Pvt., Co. C, 29th Iowa Infantry; enlisted Magnolia, Iowa, on 15 Aug 1862 for three years; died at Helena, Arkansas, 13 Feb 1863 from measles contracted while on the White River Expedition. Enlistment papers note that he was born in Putnam Co., Indiana, and was age 22 when he entered the service. Fouts' mother, Jane, applied for a Survivor's pension in 1891, stating that he was unmarried and childless at the time of his death, and that she had been dependent upon him. Pension was granted. She died 21 Mar 1895 at Missouri Valley, Iowa. (George H. Fouts was the son of Andrew Fouts and Jane (Maiden name unknown), grandson of Noah (Noel) Fouts and Carolina Wright, of Putnam Co., Indiana, and Shelby Co., Iowa. Ancestry B.)
IRA PFOUTZ - 1st Lt., Go. B, 11th Iowa Infantry; a lawyer by profession, age 20, enlisted in Marshall Co., Iowa, 18 Sep 1861 for three years. Distinguished military service included service in the Departments of Missouri, Tennessee, and Cumberland and on the Mississippi River. Was at the capture of Island No. 10 and the Naval attack on Vicksburg 1862 as a member of the Mississippi Flotilla, in siege of Vicksburg in 1863, capture of Memphis and Fort Pillow, the Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, was seriously wounded in right thigh in Battle of Atlanta. Sent home to Montgomery Co., Ohio, and discharged 6 Nov 1863 by Officers Disability Board. At the end of the War, mustered as Captain, Co. 5, 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with same until mustered out of service on 25 Jul 1865 at Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati. Pfoutz pension file is voluminous, but strangely does not contain documentation of his death. He resided in West Milton, Miami Co., Ohio, following the Civil War, although he was apparently out West long enough to marry Mary F. White on 17 Feb 1870 in Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska. There were no children. The last documents in Pfoutz's file, dated 1915, said that he and his wife were separated. Nothing further. (Ira L. Pfoutz was the son of Jesse Pfoutz. Ancestry A.)
JARROD W. FOUTS - Corp., Co. E, 15th Iowa Infantry; enlisted 23 Dec 1861 at Keokuk, Iowa; killed in the battle of Shiloh, 6 Apr 1862. On 13 Jun 1863, Lavina Fouts, of Washington Twp., Carroll Co., Indiana, filed for a Widow's pension, alleging that she and Jacob W. Fouts were married 12 Aug 1852. The identification of Lavina's Jacob was identical to the military and death record of Jarrod W. Fouts. Lavina apparently never pursued the claim, for the Pension Bureau wrote her five times for proof of the marriage, received no reply. The file was closed in 1876 as "Abandoned." (Born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, in 1828, Jarrod W. Fouts was Jacob W. Fouts and was the son of David Fouts, wife Sarah, of Cass Co. , Indiana. Ancestry C.)
JACOB PFOUTZ - Pvt. , Co. E, 1st Iowa Cavalry; enlissted 13 Jun 1861 at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; mustered into Federal Service 1 Nov 1861 at Davenport, Iowa; served in Southwest Missouri and Arkansas, but plagued with eye infection throughout service. Constantly hospitalized. Given Disability discharge 29 Jul 1864 for partial blindness, being unfit for any further service. Discharge indicates that he was born in Center Co., Pennsylvania, and was age 27 when enlisted. By 1865, Jacob had lost sight entirely in his right eye and was partially blind in his left eye and applied for a disability pension. On 8 Jan 1868 he married Prudence Rebecca Hickenbottom at Glasgow, Jefferson Co., Iowa. They had two daughters: Katherine, b. 13 Apr 1868, and Edna, b. 5 Mar 1887. Jacob Pfoutz died 7 Jan 1907, his wife 6 Sep 1927---both in Fairfield Iowa. (Jacob Pfoutz was the son of David Pfoutz. Ancestry A.)
JOHN FOUTS - Pvt., Co. F, 28th Iowa Infantry; enliisted 15 Aug 1862 at Toledo, Johnson Co. Iowa; died 24 Feb 1863 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, of pneumonia. At time of enlistment, claimed to be 18-years-old and to have been born at Canton [Washington Co.], Indiana. No pension claim was ever made for this service. (John Fouts was the son of David Fouts and Lavina Tadlock of Washington Co., Indiana. He had brothers in Indiana and Missouri Union regiments. Ancestry B.)
JOSEPH FOUTS - Pvt., Co. A, 13th Iowa Infantry; draffted 24 Oct 1864 from Jefferson Twp., Lee Co., Iowa, for one year; joined regiment 26 Mar 1865 at Goldsboro, N.C.; discharged from Army of the Tennessee on 21 Jul 1865. In subsequent pension applications, advised that he was born 9 Apr 1834 in Boone Co., Indiana, married first to Mary J. Conn [Fulton Co., Indiana on 22 Feb 1856, divorced 1868 in Keokuk, Iowa; then married Amanda J. Martin, 21 Sep 1871, in Alexandria, Missouri. No children indicated for first marriage.* issue of second marriage; Nellie May, b. 22 May 1872; Daisy Myrtle, b. 27 Nov 1874; and Grace Mabel, b. 1 Jun 1879. In 1915, Joseph Fouts told the Pension bureau that his wife Amanda had died 28 Sep 1914 in Keokuk and that she had been married to a John Ule before their marriage. Joseph Fouts died 24 Jan 1916 at Keokuk, Iowa. (He was the son of John Fouts of Boone Co., Indiana. Ancestry D., second wife.) * There were several, per 1880 Census.
RANSOM W. FOUTS - Pvt. Co. I, 4th Iowa Infantry; enlisted 2 Aug 1861 in Wayne Co., Iowa; died in skirmish 26 Nov 1861 at Rolla, Missouri, "body sent to Wayne Co., Iowa." In the Regimental Descriptive Book, Fouts is described as having been age 30 at time of enlistment, a native of Putnam Co., Indiana, and a blacksmith by occupation. No pension claim was ever made for this service. In 1981, Helen Squire made a tour of Wayne Co., Iowa, cemeteries, and found Ransom W. Fouts buried in Jones Cemetery, South Fork Twp., by himself. Tombstone dates were: "d. Nov 26, 1861, age 31Y, 2M, 20D." (Ransom W. Fouts was the son of Reuben Fouts and Hannah Davis, migrated to Iowa c1852 in the family of his step-father Grandison Brotherton. Ancestry B.)
REUBEN D. FOUTS - Corp., Co. F, 36th Iowa Infantry; enlisted 9 Aug 1862 at Iconium [Wayne Co.], Iowa; in battles at Fort Pemberton, Mississippi; Helena, Little Rock, and Elkins Ford, Arkanas; captured in Battle of Marks Mills, Arkansas, and confined in Prisoner-of-War camp in Tyler, Texas, until 25 Feb 1865; rejoined Regiment at Duvalls Bluff, Arkansas, and served until discharged there on 24 Aug 1865. On 10 Apr 1888, Reuben D. Fouts, merchant, of Gilmore, Sarpy Co., Nebraska, filed for a pension, alleging that he had been injured in a forced March from Marks Mills to Camden, Arkansas. He died on 4 Jan 1895. Subsequently, his widow Clara A. Fouts filed for a Widow's pension, stating that she had married the deceased on 8 Jun 1882 in Crete, Saline Co., Nebraska, and that there were three minor children surviving: Lee, b. 10 Apr 1883, Roy, b. 13 Nov 1884; and Allie May, b. 16 Dec. 1888. Other papers filed noted that Reuben D. Fouts had been married earlier to Martha Jane Vestle, who he married in 1858 and who died in Wayne Co., Iowa, in 1879. The widow's maiden name had been Clara A, Root. She died 15 Nov 1912 in Wayne Co., Iowa. (There were apparently three children in Reuben's first family: Jacob, Dessie, and William. William's grave was also found by Helen Squire in 1981. He had died at age 11 in 1880. Reuben's eldest son and his youngest three children moved from Iowa, or Nebraska, after their mother's death, and they or their descendants were all settled around Santa Rosa, California, in the mid-1950s. Reuben D. Fouts was a younger brother of Ransom W. Fouts, above. Ancestry B.)
SAMUEL FOUTS - Pvt., Co. C, 2nd Iowa Infantry; enlissted 27 May 1861 at Keokuk, Iowa, giving age of 23, occupation as a teacher, and birthplace as Wayne Co. , Indiana.; lost left leg above, the knee as result of wound in the Battle of Fort Donaldson in Tennessee; discharged of 12 Aug 1862. He was immediately pensioned. On 11 Mar 1886, Franklin A. Fouts, age 20, and Minnie B. Fouts, age 18, appeared before the District Court in Davis Co., Iowa, and deposed that they were the only surviving children and heirs of Samuel Fouts who died at Drakesville, Davis Co., on 8 Oct 1878, and that their mother Julia A. Fouts, nee Baker , had died on 5 Oct 1878 also but at Fairfield, Jefferson Co., Iowa. Franklin and Minnie also deposed that their parents had been marries on 17 Oct 1864 at Drakesville, Davis Co.; that Franklin A, Fouts had been born 21 Jun 1865 in Pella, Marion Co., Iowa, and Minnie B, Fouts had been born 28 Oct 1867 in Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri. Thereafter the file is silent. The marriage certificate provided with the Pension application identified the bride as "Mrs. Julia A. Baker," suggesting, that she was either a widow or a divorcee, maiden name being other than claimed by the children (There is evidence in Jefferson Co., Iowa, records that Samuel Fouts died there, not in Davis Co., but on the same day as his wife in tragic circumstances. Samuel Fouts was the son of Austin Fouts and Jane Fleming, grandson of William Fouts and Sarah Davenport of Wayne Co., Indiana. Helen Fouts Haney, of Walnut Creek, California, says that there was a third child, Rosa, b. 25 Nov 1869, d. 23 Jun 1884. She had no data on Franklin A., but Minnie Bell married Frank Reed and died in Denver, Colorado, on 19 Aug 1929. Ancestry B.)
THOMAS D. FOUTS - Pvt., Co. H, 1st Iowa Cavalry; enlisted 13 Jun 1861 at Albia, Iowa; service in Southwest Missouri and Northern Arkansas, but was continually in hospital or home on sick leave because of eye trouble; given disability discharge 13 Sep 1862 with record of having fought in six battles or skirmishes. Somewhat misrepresenting his previous service, Thomas Fouts was mustered-in as First Lieutenant, Co. L, 8th Iowa Cavalry, at Davenport, on 30 ___ 1863, giving his occupation as a painter, his birthplace as Wayne Co., Indiana, and his ______ as Albia, Iowa. His career as an officer was largely spent under arrest in Tennessee ar______ was cashiered (asked to resign), which he did on 20 July 1864 while under confinement r_______ Peach Tree Creek, Georgia. He filed for a pension in 1880, pleading the eye problems that had occasioned his Disability discharge in 1862. Thereafter he was continually petitioning for a larger pension, alleging greater disability, Thomas D. Fouts claimed to have been a resident of Burlington, Iowa, for 40 years in 1894, but his various' petitions documented his residence as Burlington, Fort Madison, Leavenworth (Kansas), and Park Co. (Montana). He died "in August or September, 1895," according to Pension Bureau records, at Fort Madison, Iowa. There was no application for a Widow's pension for this service. (Thomas D. Fouts was apparently an itinerant painter and paperhanger. In the Census of 1860, he is enumerated in Lee Twp., Monroe Co., Iowa, with a Henrietta Fouts, identified as a "domestic," age 20. If he had a wife or a family after the Civil War, it was well hidden. Thomas D. Fouts was the second son of William D. Fouts (next below) and Rosanna Whitehead. Thomas D. FOULS was a first cousin of Alexander and Samuel Fouts above. Ancestry B.)
WILLIAM D. FOUTS - Capt., Co. D, 7th Iowa Cavalry; entered service on 28 Apr 1863 at Davenport; assigned with Company to Fort Kearney, Wyoming Territory; Post Commander, 1864-65; under arrest from 8 Dec 1863 on, but on duty pending trial [Mrs. Fouts and his children were using government supplies to bake pies which they-were selling to Fouts' troops for "outrageous" prices and other peccadillos of similar nature]; killed at Horse Creek, Dakota Territory, by Sioux Indians on 14 Jun 1865 while escorting 1200 Sioux back to their reservation (he had not disarmed them). When he had entered the Service, Fouts gave his age as 47, his occupation as a merchant, and his birthplace as Wayne Co., Indiana. His Widow Charity applied for a Pension on 22 Aug 1865 from the family home in Albia, Iowa. She deposed that she had married Fouts on 19 May 1844 in Green Twp., St. Joseph Co., Indiana, and that Captain had left four minor children:* Mary Jane, b. 25 Apr 1850; Beverly W. (a male), b. 10 Feb 1852; William D., b. 1 Sep 1854; and Edmund J., b. 31 Mar 1857; and that her maiden name had been Charity Wharton. The Pension was granted, and the Widow relocated her family back to St. Joseph Co., Indiana, where she died 18 May 1886. (William D. Fouts was the son of William Fouts and Sarah Davenport of Wayne Co., Indiana. His first wife was Rosanna Whitehead, married in Wayne Co., Indiana, and who died in St. Joseph Co., Indiana, in 1842, and by whom he had two sons; John A. [of whom more later] and Thomas D (above). Ancestry B.) * Five. Son David was 17, beyond Pension.
WILLIAM N. FOUTS - Pvt., Co. L, 13th Iowa Infantry; drafted in St. Johns Twp., Harrison Co. Iowa, and mustered-in at Council Bluffs, 5 Nov 1864; apparently spent entire military service in hospitals at Beaufort, N.C. , and Fort Schuyler, New York Harbor; never reported to Company. Descriptive records identify him as a native of Putnam Co., Indiana, age 37 when drafted, and a farmer by occupation. On 27 May 1888, William N. Fouts applied for Pension for rheumatism, allegedly contracted while enduring hardships in the field during the Civil War. His pension was denied as not service related. He died 4 Feb 1893 at Missouri Valley, Iowa of Bright's Disease. On 16 Feb 1893, Elizabeth C. Fouts, his widow, applied for a Pension for herself and her minor son Marion Earl, b. 13 Mar 1881, deposing that she was born 6 Mar 1837 in Wayne Co., Ohio, that her maiden name had been Smith, that they were married 2 Aug 1855 in Pottawattomie Co., Iowa. The file is silent as to other children. Elizabeth C. Fouts died 9 Mar 1919 at Scribner, Nebraska. (William N. Fouts was the sole surviving child of the first family of Abner Fouts, eldest son of Noah (Noel) Fouts, of Putnam Co., Indiana, and Shelby Co., Iowa. Ancestry B.)
CIVIL WAR RECORDS WILL CONCLUDE WITH NEXT ISSUE. - THEN SPANISH AMERICAN WAR RECORDS.
'FOUT' CONFUSION WITH 'FOUTS' BEGAN IN COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA
Family roots searchers who have dealt with the records of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and points West have all encountered, and SOME have fallen prey to, the irritating confusion between FOUT (German: Fauth) and FOUTS (German: Pfautz). Fortunately, the Fout(s) did not penetrate southwards into North Carolina and Tennessee until the Fouts had largely gone northward into Ohio and Indiana, The Fout(s) were steadfastly Lutheran, were holdfast Marylanders or Applachian mountaineers, rarely moved west or north of the Ohio River, but those that did caused genealogical consternation. In early 1980, there was a flurry of Fouts activity to prove that two Fouts convicted for murder in Morgan Co., Ohio (a stronghold for two Fouts ancestries, B&H) were actually Fout(s) from south of Ohio River.
The confusion began in early Pennsylvania when Jacob and Baltis "Fauts" were identified as having land surveys "before 1734" in Philadelphia County, On 2," Oct 1734, Jacob Fouts obtained a survey for 200 acres, also in Philadelphia County. Primitive genealogists, failing to check out the lands involved, identified the Jacob Fauts and Jacob Fouts as one and the same person.
Factually, Jacob and Baltis were brothers and were Fout(s), and had left Pennsylvania for Baltimore (later Frederick) Co., Maryland, by 1734. Jacob Fouts, by land location and the diary of the Rev. John Caspar Stoever, who baptized a son for Jacob in 1730, was Jacob Pfautz (B), father of Michael Fouts of North Carolina and father-in-law-to-be of Andrew Hoover, Sr., immigrant surname ancestor of President Herbert C. Hoover. Jacob Pfautz removed in the late 1730s to an area on the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania, then hotly contested by the two governments, now in Adams Co., Pa., abutting both the York Co., Pa., and Maryland lines. It was from this area that the Fouts and Hoover mounted their move to North Carolina in 1762.
Prior to 1900, the Fout(s) were zealous in preserving the integrity of their surname, but thereafter some began to take the easy way and added the "s". Some Fouts today are really Fauth in their German antecedents. Although the two families were not intermingled in neighborhoods in Frederick Co., Md., they are so intermingled in the county records that it has been necessary for Pfautz researchers to do the large families of Jacob and Baltis Fout and identify them specifically to keep them out of Fouts family constructions. If you want a real headache, try to sort them out in the Great Valley of Virginia --- from Augusta, County south. Then, of course, there are the FOUGHTS, who pronounce their name " Fouts," and some of whom early adopted the spelling "FOUTTS"---did they come from the Pfautz, Fauth, or elsewhere?