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 Pfoutz, 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?

PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ NEWSLETTER No. 2

Dr. John Scott Davenport, Editor A Coolish, Wet Spring Day

1375 Stratford Drive on Waters of Cuyahoga, in

Kent, Ohio 44240 Connecticut's Western Reserve,

25 April 1981 Portage Co., Ohio

A Slight Change- in Location from Provo, Utah

When Newsletter No. 1 was issued last year, more frequent than annual issues were contemplated. However, the Editor listened to the siren's song of advancement and allowed himself to be persuaded to accept the directorship of the School of Journalism, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, on a hurry-up basis. It was a mistake --- too many paranoics from KSU's trauma of 1970, too many concealed administrative ploys (political deals), and a grand strategy of cannibalizing Journalism for the sake of Art. The KSU administration wanted a trained dog act. The Editor was not it. He resigned in late January, returned immediately to freelance writing (pushed out another novel), and resumed genealogy research --- and started job hunting.

Nothing's firmed up at the moment, but holding back on Newsletter issuance pending a new address is too iffy. The backlog of development in Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz data will require three to four Newsletters, at least, to work off. So, other than saying that, at the moment, it is quite likely that the Davenports will be returning to Virginia. Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz Newsletter will proceed. Write the Editor at the Kent, Ohio, address until notified otherwise. That, for sure, will motivate the issuance of another Newsletter in considerably less than the eleven months that elapsed between 1 and 2.

Order of Family Patriarchs within Genealogical Research Purview

For review, ordered herewith are the primary immigrant patriarchs of Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz families that have come within consideration. Those of the Nineteenth Century are additions since the last Newsletter. The alphabet code accompanying each patriarch is the prefix for all genealogical family numberings of descendants. The order is based on date of immigration to America;

A - HANS MICHAEL PFAUTZ. SR., of Lancaster Co., Pa., immigrant of 1727.

B - JACOB PFAUTZ, of Germany Twp.,, York (now Adams) Co., Pa., immigrant before 1730.

C - THEOBALD PFAUTZ (DAVID FOUTS, Sr.)), of Randolph Co., N.C., immigrant of 1738.

D - JOHN DAVID PFAUTZ, of Washingtton Co., Md. (issue of first wire); Rowan (now Davidson) Co., N.C. (issue of second wife); immigrant of 1749.

E - CONRAD FOUTZ, of Washington Twwp., Franklin Co., Pa., immigrant of 1752.

F - JOHN JACOB PFAUTZ, of Philadelphia, Pa., immigrant of 1773.

G - MICHAEL PFOUTS, Sr., of Harrisson Co., Ohio, immigrant of 1787.

H - JOHN FOUTS, of York Twp., Morggan Co., Ohio, immigrant of 1820.

I - ADAM FOUTZ, of Miller Twp., Deearborn Co., Indiana, immigrant of 1854.

J - WILLIAM FAUTZ, of San Francisco, Calif., immigrant of 1855.

K - GOTTLIEB PFAUTZ, of Philadelphia, Pa., immigrant of 1857.

L - WILLIAM FAUTZ, of Norfolk, Va., immigrant of 1865,

There were two known female immigrants:

ELIZABETHA FAUTZ, of Zweibruecken, who was granted permission to emigrate to America in 1738---no record of arrival, but women were only sporadically included on immigration lists (they were not required to take the oaths of allegiance and abjuration);

DOROTHEA FAUTZ, immigrant of 1785, who appears to have been the same Dorothy Foutz who married Jacob Crow in Washington Co., Md., 13 Sep 1802, and who was a close relative (not a child) of MICHAEL PFOUTS (G).

Two additional male immigrants have been identified, neither of whom had children:

ALBERT PFAUTZ, 2nd Lt., 52nd N.Y. Infantry, died 1862 of wounds received in action at Fair Oaks, Va. (Civil War). Pfautz, married in Germany in 1841, immigrated to America in the early 1850s, was age 40 when enlisted in New York City in 1861. Wife died In 1891.

BERNHARDT FAUTZ, Pvt., 17th Missouri Volunteers, badly wounded in right leg during Battle of Atlanta, Through 1880, no evidence has been found that Fautz had a family. He was age 34 when he enlisted for service. No widow applied for a pension following his death, per National Archives records.

Albert PFAUTZ was born in Prussia, Bernhardt FAUTZ was born in Baden.

The Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz immigrants described above are all of those identified thus far to 1880. With the exception of Albert PFAUTZ, all immigrants have come from the Baden-Wurtemburg areas, east of the Rhine, in Germany.

For the purposes of constructing genealogical tables of the families of these immigrants and their descendants, the alphabetic prefix noted will precede all numbers, e.g. A15 = 15th family of the surname descendants of HANS MICHAEL PFAUTZ, Sr., Ef32 = 32nd family of female descendants (surname of husband) of CONRAD FOUTZ, etc. With these prefixes, it is possible to systematically array and order the descendant families minimizing code numbers. When German antecedents are researched, other codes, which can plug into American alphanumerics will be used. Because of the massive size of the project, only paternal lines are pursued. All female lines will be identified in family orders and detail where the mother's maiden name was/is Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz. Etc., but will not be pursued beyond.

FOUTS-FOUTZ WHO SERVED IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY

While little has appeared in the surname literature concerning the militarists in the family (nonjuring pacifists were in the majority during the Revolution, and the Pfouts, etc., who served in the War of 1812, the early Indian Wars, and the Mexican War can be counted on the fingers of both hands, leaving several digits undesignated), a large number of Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz served during the Civil War, including a number from Dunker (Church of the Brethren) families who had been steadfastly pacifistic until 1861, Leaving the large number of Yankees to be looked at later (Ohio will take up one complete Newsletter by itself), let's look at the family in Confederate service. The records and listing following come from the National Archives, from Confederate military records captured by the victorious Union Army. No Confederates were pensioned by the Federal Government (until only a few were left). Genealogical data usually found in the pension files must be obtained from the individual Southern States, each of whom provided pensions to its own veterans.

VIRGINIA

GEORGE D. FOUTTS, Pvt., Co. B, 58th Virginia Volunteers, born 1841, died 1862 at Monterey, Va. (Father: Daniel Fouts, of Bedford Co., Va.)

GEORGE D. FOUTS, Blacksmith, Co. G, 4th Virginia Cavalry, served through 1864. Enlisted from Stewartsville, Bedford Co. , Va.

GEORGE W. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. K, 58th Virginia Volunteers, born 1841, died 1861 at Staunton, Va. (Father: George Fouts, of Bedford Co., Va.)

GEORGE FOUTS, Co. K, 3rd Regt., Virginia Reserves, enlisted in 1664 in Botetourt Co., Va. Ordered to return to farming (aged, father of GEORGE W. FOUTS, Decd.)

GREEN B. FOUTS, Co. E, 28th Virginia Volunteer Infantry, From Botetourt Co., Va.. No other data. (Moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1870s --- descendants among the Fouts there.)

J. A. FOUTS, Pvt., Capt. Otey's Light Artillery Co., which was composed of employees in Ordnance Depot, Danville, Virginia for local defense and special service. No further data.

J. M. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. B, 157th Virginia Militia Regt., one month's service in Greenbrier Co., 1862. No further data.

JAMES R. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. B, 10th Battalion Virginia Heavy Artillery, enlisted at Richmond in 1863, among those paroled at Appomattox Court House, 9 Apr 1865. No further data.

JOHN 0. FOUTS, Corp., Co. B, 58th Virginia Volunteers, born 1635, served through 1864. Enlisted from Bedford Co. No further data.

JOHN W. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. K, 58th Virginia Volunteers, born 1838, died 1863 at Hugenot Springs, Va. (Father; Daniel Fouts, of Bedford Co., Va.)

THOMAS J. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. B, 10th Battalion Virginia Heavy Artillery, born 1848, served during last months of the War, No further data.

OSBORNE FOUTS, Pvt., Co. F, 23rd Virginia Volunteers, enlisted at Dublin, Pulaski Co., Va.; captured at Winchester, Va., 19 Sep 1864 enlisted in U.S. Army for Indian Service, 14 Oct 1864. (Apparently changed name---is not locatable in U.S. Army records or Censuses, searched thus far, under "Osborne Fouts.")

STEPHEN C. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. D, 28th Virginia Infantry, enlisted from Bedford Co., 1862; registered as "Rebel Deserter," 22 Apr 1865, and transported at government expense to Blairsville, Pa. No further data. (Died in Botetourt Co., Va.,)

WILLIAM H. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. K, 58th Virginia Volunteers, born 1840, died 29 Jan 1862 at Monterey, Va. (Father: Daniel Fouts, of Bedford Co.)

WILLIAM J. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. K, 58th Virginia Volunteers, born 1834, enlisted from Stewartsville, Bedford Co., wounded in action at Battle of McDowell, Highland Co., Va., 8 May 1862 (gunshot wound in face); medical discharge, 31 Dec 1863. ( Died shortly thereafter)

W. M. FOOUTS, Pvt., Co. H, 22nd Virginia Infantry, enlisted at White Sulphur Springs, plagued by illness --- constantly sick either in hospital or at home in Craig Co., Va. No further data.

With the exception of Osborne and W.M., who possibly belonged to FAUTH-FOUT family, all others were grandsons of Jacob FOUTZ, of Bedford Co., Va., believed to have been a son of CONRAD FOUTZ (E).

NORTH CAROLINA

A[lexander] FOUTS, Pvt., Co. B, 49th North Carolina Infantry, born 1631, Davidson Co., N.C.; wounded at Wire Bottom Church, 20 May 1864. apparently died there; listed on N.C. Roll of Honor. (D)

CHARLES A. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. H, 48th North Carolina Infantry, enlisted 8 Aug 1861; wounded and taken prisoner, Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam); entered Federal Service under another name. No further data. (D)

DAVID FOUTS, Pvt., Co. F, 6th Regt., N.C. Senior Reserves, born in 18l5, enlisted at Asheboro, June, 1864; AWOL 13 Nov 1864 until end of War. No further data. (B)

ERASTUS FOUTS, Pvt., Co. C, lst Regt., N.C. Junior Reserves, born in 1847, enlisted from Davidson Co., among those who surrendered at Greensboro, N.C., May, 1865. Hospitalized. (Died shortly thereafter) (D)

IGNATIUS G. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. I, 5th N.C. Infantry, born in 1838, enlisted at Asheboro, among those who surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Va., 9 Apr 1865. No further data, (B)

JAMES M. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. K, 56 N.C. Infantry, born in 1841, enlisted at Asheboro, killed in trenches near Petersburg, Va., 10 Sep 1864. [Son of Henry Fouts] (B)

JACOB FOUTS, Pvt., Co. E, 6th N.C. Cavalry, born in 1830, resident of Franklin, Macon Co., N.C.; captured 27 Aug 1863 at Jacksonborough, Tenn.; in POW camps in Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois until 17 June 1865 when took the Oath of Allegiance to U.S. and was released. (C)

JAMES M. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. G, 42nd N.C. Infantry, born in 1846, enlisted at Salisbury, died of wounds received at Petersburg, Va., 24 Jul 1864; father, Daniel Fouts. (C)

JOHN FOUTS, Pvt., Co. A, 6th N.C. Cavalry, born in 1832, enlisted at Franklin, Macon Co.; captured at Jacksonborough, Tenn., 27 Aug 1863; in POW camps in Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois; died at Rock Island, Ill., 17 Dec 1864, from disease. (C)

JOHN D. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. G, 42nd N.C. Infantry, born in 1842, enlisted at Salisbury, Rowan Co.; surrendered at Salisbury, N.C., 19 May 1865. No further data. [The 42nd N.C. was a Prison Guard Battalion, guarded Union prisoners at the Salisbury POW camp.) (D)

JOHN E. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. D, 5th Battalion N.C. Cavalry, born in 1838, enlisted at Jefferson, Ashe Co.; died 9 Oct 1862 at Big Springs, Tenn. No further data, (C)

JOSEPH S. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. B, 6th N.C. Cavalry, born in 1841, enlisted at Jefferson, Ashe Co.; no record after 14 Nov 1864. Signed name as "Joseph S. Phouts." No further data. (C)

PETER E. FOUTS, Lt., Co. F, 59th N.C. Infantry, enlisted at Concord, Cabarrus Co., 17 Jul 1862; died of unknown causes at Richmond, Va., 29 Mar 1863; widow, R. Fouts. No further data. (C)

S. J. FAUTS, Pvt., Capt. John Whitman's Co., 65th Battalion, N.C. Militia, did 17 days duty, 1863-64, signed payroll receipt roll as "S. J. Fouts" with an "X." No further data. [Possibly Sidney J. Fouts, son of Joseph, of Ashe Co., N.C.] (C?)

WILLIAM H. FOUTS, Corp., Co. G, 42nd N.C. Infantry, born in 1841, enlisted at Salisbury, Rowan Co.; captured near Kinston, N.C., 10 Mar 1865; released 26 Jun 1865. No further data. (D)

WILLIAM R. FOUTS, Corp., Co. E., 6th N.C. Cavalry, born in 1838, enlisted at Franklin, Macon Co., N.C.; served through 1864. No further data. (C)

The casualties reflected in the above listing virtually decimated the young male FOUTS population of Randolph, Ashe, and Cabarrus Cos., N.C., left a small group in Rowan and Davidson. Despite their losses, the Mountain Fouts of Macon Co. thrived. But with this casualty report in mind, it is understandable why there were no N.C. FOUTS on the Western Frontier after the Civil War.

GEORGIA

JACOB FOUTS, Pvt., Co. F, 1st Regt., Ga. Local Troops, enlisted at Augusta, 15 Mar 1864. No report after June, 1864. No further data. (C)

J. D. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. E, 23rd Ga. Infantry, enlisted at Camp MacDonald, Ga., 31 Aug 1861; served in Virginia, 1862-63; on sick leave, then deserted at Gilmer Co., Ga., Jan-Feb, 1864. No further data. (C)

J. D. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. K, 11th Ga. Cavalry, born in 1841, enlisted at Athens, Ga., 20 Aug 1864. Occupation: Farmer. Nativity: North Carolina. No further data. (C)

J. P. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. F, 16th Battalion of Cavalry, Georgia State Guards, enlisted Ellijay, Gilmer Co., Ga., 7 Jul 1863, for six months service. No further data. (C)

WILLIAM FOUTS, Pvt., Co. F, 16th Battalion of Cavalry, Georgia State Guards, enlisted Ellijay, Gilmer Co. , Ga., 7 Jul 1863 for six months service. No further data. (C)

WILLIAM FOUTS, Pvt., Co. K, 11th Ga. Cavalry, born in 1820, enlisted at Athens, Ga., 20 Aug 1864. Occupation: Blacksmith. Nativity: North Carolina. No further data. (This appears to be the same William Fouts who served in the Cherokee War of 1838-39.1 (C)

W. P. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. E, 27th Battalion, Georgia Infantry, enlisted at Augusta, 2 May 1864; in hospital at Charlotte, N.C., when captured by Sherman's advancing Union Army. No further data. (C)

These are descendants of John Leonard Fouts, son of Theobald Pfautz (David Fouts, Sr.), by sons Leonard and Jacob. They moved into Cherokee Georgia after the Indians were moved West in 1838-39. One of these descendants broke the line. Gabriel Fouts, of Gilmer Co., Ga., went up to Tennessee and joined the Union Army, but he went back to Gilmer Co. after the war --- and collected his Yankee pension there.

LOUISIANA

M.[artin] V. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. A, Miles Legion, enlisted 1 Sep 1862, Baton Rouge, La.; deserted July,,1863; prisoner of war, 6 Oct 1863; appears to have died 28 Dec 1863 at St. Louis Hospital, New Orleans. (C) [This was a Hoosier from Clark Co., Indiana, who had gone down the Mississippi. His widow sold Martin V's interest in the real estate of Hiram Fouts, Decd., in Clark Co., after the War.]

T[homas] J. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. E, 27th Louisiana Infantry, enlisted 24 Apr 1662, Sparta, a resident of Bienville Parish; captured at Vicksburg, 4 Jul 1863; exchanged 1 Apr 1864; captured at Natchitoches, Texas, 26 May 1865. Listed as "Company Physician." (This was a son of John Martin Fouts, origins yet undetermined who appeared in Lousiana, allegedly from North Carolina, in 1821.)

TEXAS

LEANDER FOUTS, Pvt., Co. B, 31st Texas Cavalry, born in 1832, enlisted in Bosque Co., Texas, 2 Apr 1862, living 100 miles from the Regiment rendezvous. Shown present from enlistment through 30 June 1862. No further data. (C) [This is one of the sons of wandering Philip Fouts--- in Randolph Co., N.C., 1810; in Buncombe Co., N.C., 1820; in Shelby Co., Indiana, 1830; in Polk Co., Missouri, 1840; in Polk Co., Iowa, 1850 --- where Philip died. In 1860 his sons were in Oregon, California, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri.]

R. P. FOUTS, Pvt., Co. G, 29th Texas Cavalry, enlisted 21 Apr 1862 in Lamar Co.. Shown present from enlistment through 30 June 1862. No further data. (This was another son of the unidentified John Martin Fouts, of Bienville Parish, Louisiana.)

KENTUCKY

WILLIAM FOUTS, Jr., Pvt., Co. D, 5th Kentucky Infantry, C.S.A., enlisted at Jackson, Ky., 20 Sep 1862; killed in battle at Dallas, Georgia, 28 May 1864. (This was the son of William Fouts, of Breathitt Co., Ky. If a Fouts, he was either from the Brooke Co., (West) Va., Fouts (B) or the Bedford-Botetourt Co., Va., Foutz (E). But these Kentucky mountains were full of FOUCH, some of whom shifted to the FOUTS surname around this time. A FOUCH, as a FOUTS, from this area served in the Union Kentucky Volunteers.)

FLORIDA

GEORGE W. FOUTS, Pvt. Co. C, lst Florida Cavalry, born in 1836, enlisted at Middleburgh, 17 Oct 1871; on police duty in Knoxville, Tenn., Dec-Mar, 1862-63; captured at Missionary Ridge, 25 Nov 1863; in POW camp at Rock Island, Ill., until June, 1865, when he was paroled at Selma, Alabama. Residence at time of parole given as Clay Co., Fla. No further data. (Identity yet to be established.)

No action has yet been taken to check out any of these Confederate soldiers' ancestry or descendants by researching state records. Anyone who is interested in doing so can write the Editor for assistance.

Persistency Pays Off In Defining Michael Fouts,, Sr., Family

The first family given the Editor when he became interested in identifying Pfautz-Fouts-Foutz more than ten years ago were those unidentified children, listed in a Bible (only the page survived), of a parent who wrote in the German language. It was variously identified --- was obviously incomplete, because listings began at the extreme top of the page. The family sheet in the Mormon Archives at Salt Lake City identified the family as being of "Baron von Pfoutz" and Mary Younce. Later, someone had added another child, an eldest son, to the sheet.

It required considerable research--- the Editor was able to gain access to the original bible page and make his own translations --- but, finally, the names were identified as all the children of Michael Fouts, Sr., son of Jacob Pfautz (B), and Catherine Varner, excepting John, the eldest son, who was apparently listed at the bottom of the preceding (missing) page.

The final items for a definitive family description, excluding death dates, were obtained or deduced within the past year. So, here for the first time, is the researched and documented family, including spouses of children, of Michael Fouts, Sr., and his wife Catherine Varner. It was the North Carolina residuals of the family which long eluded definition:

THE CHILDREN OF MICHAEL FOUTS, Sr.. AND WIFE CATHERINE VARNER,

of Randolph Co., North Carolina

1. JOHN FOUTS, b. 11 Jun 1747, Pipe Creek Waters, Frederick (now Carroll) Co., Md.; m. 13 Aug 1769, Rowan Co., N,C., MARY YOUNCE (JANSS); died ? Nov 1822, German Twp., Montgomery Co., Ohio.

2. CATHERINE FOUTS, b. 2 May 1749, Pipe Creek Waters, Frederick (now Carroll) Co., Md.; m. cl771, Guilford (now Randolph) Co., N.C, LAWRENCE YOUNCE (LORENTZ JANSS); died ? . [Catherine became involved in a scandal during the Revolution, was apparently living in Frederick Co., Md., in 1790. Lawrence and children lived in Lincoln and Wilkes (now Ashe) Cos., N.C., and Muhlenberg Co., Ky. Lawrence died in German Twp., Montgomery Co., Ohio, is buried next to sister Mary Fouts.]

3. ANDREW FOUTS, b. 5 Apr 1751, Pipe Creek Waters, Frederick (now Carroll) Co., Md.; m. cl770, Rowan (now Randolph) Co., N.C., RACHEL MERRILL; died ? Sep 1834, Randolph Co., N.C. (This is the only bonafide Patriot, DAR-type, in this family, Andrew took the oath of allegiance to the State of North Carolina, was among the first in Randolph Co. to receive a land grant. his father-in-law, William Merrill, was a Militia Captain, Justice of the Peace, and fatality of the Revolution. Rachel was the niece of Capt. Benjamin Merrill, who was hung, drawn and quartered by Governor Tryon in The Regulator Affair.)

4. ELIZABETH FOUTS, b. ? Mar 1753, Pipe Creek Waters, Frederick (now Carroll) Co., N.C.; m. cl772, Guilford (now Randolph) Co., N.C., JOHN YOUNT (JUNDT); died ? , Lincoln Co. Tennessee. (This family moved to Waters of Wautaga in Wilkes (now Wautaga) Co., N.C., in 1798, subsequently was in Shelby Co., Ky., and Lincoln Co., Tennessee.)

5. SUSANNAH FOUTS, b. ? Apr 1755, Germany Twp., York (now Adams) Co., Pa.; m. cl772, Guilford (now Randolph) Co., N.C., CUTLIFF HARMON (GOTTLIEB HERMANN); died cl8l5, Ashe (now Wautage) Co., N.C.

6. MARY MAGDALENA FOUTS, b. ? Jun 1759, Germany Twp., York (now Adams) Co., Pa.; m. 25 Dec 1775, MATTHIAS HARMON (HERMANN); died ? , Clark Co., Indiana Territory?

7. JACOB FOUTS, b. ? Aug 1761, Germany Twp., York (now Adams) Co., Pa.; m. cl778, Guilford (now Randolph) Co., N.C., ELEANOR MALINDA WAYMIRE (WEHHEIER); died 1835, Wayne Co., Indiana.

8. JONAS FOUTS, b. ? Nov 1763, Forks of Uwharrie, Rowan (now Randolph) Co., N.C., no further record. (Dead before 1779)

9. ESTHER FOUTS, b. ? Jul 1766, Forks of Uwharrie, Rowan (now Randolph) Co., N.C.; m. c1786, Randolph Co., N.C. JACOB YOUNT (JUNDT); died 1825, Montgomery Co., Ohio.

10. DAVID FOUTS, b. ? Mar 1769, Forks of Uwharrie, Rowan (now Randolph) Co., N.C.; no further record. (Dead before 1800).

Death dates are missing for both Michael, Sr., and his wife Catherine. In 1800, Michael, Sr., was apparently living in household of son Andrew. In the fall of 1803, Michael, Sr., joined with son John and grandson Michael, Jr., to sell off all of the lands they owned, individually and jointly, in North Carolina. It was Michael, Sr.'s last appearance in public records. He my have remained in Randolph Co. with son Andrew or have gone north with John (Jacob moved north in 1801). Whichever, he was not probated.

Mary and Lawrence Younce are believed to have been the children of Frederick Younce, of Hanover, York Co., Pa. John and Jacob Yount were brothers and sons of George Yount. Cutliff and Matthias Harmon were brothers and sons of George Harmon. Rachel Merrill was the daughter of William Merrill. Eleanor Malinda Waymire was the daughter of John Rudolph Waymire. Michael Fouts, Sr., and his wife Catherine were "Dutch Friends," otherwise known as Mennonites. Of the children: John's progeny were largely identified with the Dunkers (Church of the Brethren); Catherine's religious persuasion unknown, but Lawrence Younce identified with the Dunkers; Andrew was Baptist; Elizabeth Yount was Dunker; Susannah Harmon was Baptist; Mary Harmon was Baptist; Jacob was Quaker; and Esther Yount was Dunker.

Considering that this family has been promoted as a "Quaker" family since Lindsey Brien (Dayton, Ohio) found some association with the Presidential Hoover line in the early 1930s, it is easy to understand why they could not be found in Quaker records. Michael, Sr.'s sister Anna Margaretha Pfautz (Margaret Fouts) was married to Andreas Huber (Andrew Hoover, Sr.), and the couple were the immigrant ancestors of the Presidential Hoover line via their son John. Considering all of the erroneous Quaker claims associated with the Hoovers (Andrew, Sr., was a baptized Separate Baptist; Margaret hosted several Quaker evangelists after Andrew's death in 1781, but is not in any Quaker records extant; and a minority of their children were Quakers), it is not surprising that a large amount of fallacious "Quaker genealogy" had to be refuted in order to show both the Hoovers and the Fouts in Randolph Co., N.C., in their true religious milieus.

Time To Start Putting A Genealogy Together

Inasmuch as the definition of the lines of Jacob Pfautz (B) have been more than ten years in research, the Editor feels that it is high time to start putting together a definitive genealogy on that group of FOUTS. Accordingly, he will devote the summer specifically to that project, In essence, Jacob Pfautz had two surviving sons: Michael Fouts, Sr., of Randolph Co., N.C., and Andrew Fouts, Sr., of Brooke Co., (West) Va. Michael, Sr., branched patrinymically through John, of Montgomery Co., Ohio; Andrew, of Randolph Co., N.C,; and Jacob, of Wayne Co., Indiana. Andrew, Sr., branched through David, of Brooke Co., (West) Va.; Lemen, Andrew, Allen, Jacob II, William, Absalom, and Sebastian, all of Morgan Co., Ohio.

With the exception of the female families of Andrew, Sr., and sons, the lines of Michael, Sr., are mostly in hand, require only sustained hours of organization and standardization of data. Substantial gains have made in the identification and definition of the lines of the eight sons of Andrew, Sr., of Brooke Co., (West) Va., but the Editor will spend a week or so in Muskingum, Morgan, Perry, and Athens Cos., Ohio, shortly to clear up loose ends. In the next Newsletter, he will ask help on specific families of Fouts' daughters --- of both lines. Current plans are to complete the "Descendants of Jacob Pfautz" by October 1 upcoming. Following that, either Hans Michael Pfautz (A) or Theobald Pfautz (C) will be completed. Hans Michael (A) would be the simplest, largely a matter of correcting and updating John Eby Pfautz' book of 1882. Work on the other lines will go on, of course, while these patriarchal groups are being put into publishable form.

For the moment, the question of whether to publish individually or collectively is tabled. Through the first five generations of Jacob Pfautz' descendants, there are almost four hundred (400) families. Bringing it up to 1980 will more than double that number, and we're already into a fat book---excluding the other lines. The Editor sees the PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ genealogies as a series of publications --- not as a single book. Whatever, a strong start has already been made --- with a target date for completion of October 1, 1981.

Clarification of Pfoutz Valley Folk

We still have some genealogists and family searchers around who are promoting the Baron von Pfoutz, of Pfoutz Valley, Pa., ancestry. For the record, there was never a Baron von Pfoutz (Pfautz, or whatever). The idea was either hearsay or a creation of John Eby Pfautz, of Ephrata, in his writings in the 1880s. John Pfoutz, son of Han Michael Pfautz, Sr., was a tavernkeeper in Strasburg, Lancaster Co., Pa., a loaner of money, and a land speculator---but he was never a Baron. Nor was he ever referred to as such in the literature extant of the period. If anything, it is an insulting, ironical designation, for John Pfoutz lost every piece of land he owned ultimately--by numerous law suits. By 1785, all John Pfoutz had left was his name on Pfoutz Valley --- but the Sheriffs were still levying against him in the early 1790s, apparently on the possibility that he had hidden assets among the land holdings of his son. If you like fiction and find ancestral elation in a phony baronial claim, Baron von Pfoutz is in the literature --- but he never existed.

John Pfouts, son of Michael Pfoutz, of Pfoutz Valley did exist. In late 1808, John forsook Pfoutz Valley in the forks of the Juniata and Susquehanna (Snyder Co., Pa.) and bought land in Connecticut's Western Reserve, in Hartford Twp., Trumbull Co., Ohio. He died there in 1856.

John Pfouts, son of Michael Pfoutz, grandson of John Pfoutz , great-grandson of Hans Michael Pfautz, Sr. (A), was born in Pfoutz Valley, 30 May 1786. His first wife was Elizabeth Wehring, m. cl8O2, by whom he had son Valentine, b. 1803. Elizabeth died 17 Aug 1804, is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in Pfoutz Valley. Valentine apparently did not go to Ohio with his father, for Michael Pfoutz cut his son John off with one dollar in his will made 16 Sep 1825, probated 8 Aug 1827, but devised his grandson Valetine, son of John, a quarter interest in his Pfoutz Valley estate. What happened to Valentine is an enigma --- he has not been found in the Censuses, is not among the Pfoutz burials in the Valley, and was not in evidence in Trumbull Co. But Pfoutz-Valley without some mystery for genealogists would not be Pfoutz Valley.

John Pfouts in Ohio married Mary Ann Quiggle, had five surviving children, based on marriage records:

TRUMBULL CO., OHIO, MARRIAGE RECORDS

19 Jan 1826 - Susan Pfouts to George Verne (lQS:296)

05 Jun 1830 - Sarah Pfouts to John Shull (2:66)

21 Sep 1831 - Michael Pfouts to Eliza Waldo (2:99)

19 Nov 1832 - Margaret Pfouts to Henry Fry (2:143)

25 Sep 1835 - Michael Pfouts to Margaret Lafferty (2:264)

24 Nov 1840 - John Fouts to Mary Quiggle (License)*

c1837 - Isaac Pfouts to Ruth E --------

*This appears to be the father and mother getting a marriage license, There was no other John Fouts or Pfouts in the records. When John died, he left his widow Mary A. in the care of Isaac.

The Editor visited Hartford Center and found all of the male Pfouts and a few of the females buried in the cemetery on the SW corner of the village square. In 1888, both Michael and Isaac died. In the last eighty years, there have been only two Pfouts marriages in Trumbull Co., both female. While the Pfouts stones were once well mounted and engraved, they were of soft stone and were faced towards the prevailing winds --- and are now largely eroded, broken, or tumbled down. Isaac's stone has fallen over, could be remounted easily. Likely, there has not been a Pfouts around to do so for forty or more years. This family was well represented in the Civil War --- and took casualties.

A Tentative Identification of Daniel Fouts

In the last Newsletter, help with the identification of the family of Daniel Fouts and Emmeline Perry was requested. No specific help was received, but data collected in the interim has identified Daniel as the son of David Pfoutz, youngest son of John Pfautz, son of Hans Michael Pfautz, Sr. (A). David did not get married until late in life, left six minor children--- including sons John, Lewis, and Daniel --- when he died in Perry Co., Pa., in 1823. Lewis died before reaching his majority. Daniel and John have been lost. John and family appear to be those in Susquehanna Twp., Cambria Co., Pa., Census of 1850. Daniel appears to have been of the Mormon persuasion in 1843 --- he was married by a Latter Day Saint elder. Marion Jerome Fouts, the eldest son --- through whom Daniel was backtracked, served in the lst Nevada Cavalry during the Civil War. Anyone encountered Daniel Fouts and family out West?

PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ NEWSLETTER No, 3

July, 1981

Editor: Dr. John Scott Davenport A Sweltering Summer's Day

1375 Stratford Drive on Headwaters of Cuyahoga,

Kent, Ohio 44240 Portage Co., Ohio

Who Does What, Who Pays For What---And Your Options

In response to several queries, be advised that there are three elements to the current PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ genealogical research project, Newsletter publication, and proposed book publication: (1) Dr. Davenport, who conducts the field research, collects and systematizes data, edits the Newsletter, and who will edit and write the genealogy books; (2) Dean R. Foutz, President, Foutz Family Research Foundation, 677 Ala Moana Blvd., PH (Penthouse). Honolulu, Hawaii 96813; and (3) The Jacob Foutz Family Association, Inc., P. O. Box 1500, Farmington, New Mexico 87401.

Dean R. Foutz functions as the business manager and publisher for the cooperative effort. After receiving copy from Dr. Davenport, Dean has the Newsletter printed, has computer-printed labels prepared, and has the labeling , stamping, and mailing accomplished. He plans to publish the forthcoming genealogy books under "The Foutz Family Research Foundation" imprint.

The Jacob Foutz Family Association, Inc., is the depository of project funds. A nonprofit corporation with an Internal Revenue Service certificate enabling tax deductibility for donations, the JFA controls all funds, incoming and outgoing. Both Dr. Davenport and Dean R. Foutz send bills to the JFA for a portion of their expenses.

Everyone of known interest in PFAUTZ-FOUTS-FOUTZ genealogy is welcome to the Newsletter. Contributions are strictly a matter of individual choice. Both Dr. Davenport and Dean Foutz are self-supporting, are not paid and do not profit --- beyond the satisfaction and merits of the work itself. The JFA has no paid employees,

All donations or contributions should be made payable to "The Jacob Foutz Family Association"---but should be mailed to Dean R. Foutz, 677 Ala Moana Blvd., PK, Honolulu, HA 96813. The reason for this is not apparent but is a matter of efficiency: it eliminates the necessity of the JFA having to advise Dean of address changes, additions, and corrections. Updating of the mailing list will be done as a matter of procedure incidental to receipt of the donations. Checks are then forwarded to the JFA in New Mexico --- where all financial records are maintained by a CPA, who also contributes his services.

Whether you elect to take the deduction on your Income Tax Return is a matter of your own choice. All conditions required by the IRS have been met and are maintained. The working arrangement is complimentary --- Dr. Davenport does not have to concern himself relative to publishing details or fund raising, Dean Foutz concentrates on publishing, and the JFA concentrates on fund raising, record keeping, etc..

If you have any kinfolk who would like to receive the Newsletter, send their names and addresses to Dean. Please remember to advise Dean if you move --- the computer cannot change your label if it is not informed that you have moved. From a Fouts Folk Newsletter circulated to twenty-one ten years ago, we now have a circulation of more than 400, and are adding 50 additional with each Newsletter.

Jacob Pfoutz Descendants Hard at Work; Theobald Next, Then Conrad

Seven generations of the descend