David Fouts¹ {M} [P854] = Lavina Tadlock {F} [P3921]

Married Thursday 25 December 1823, , Salem Twp, Washington CO, IN USA²

David Fouts:

Born Thursday 13 April 1780, Rich Fork of the Uwharrie, Randolph Co, NC USA
Died Monday 23 June 1856, Salem Twp, Washington Co, IN USA
Buried Franklin Cemetery, Washington Co, IN USA
Religion:
Religion Place: Baptist
Reference number: 1324
Information for this family supplied by Chris Longhurst 20531 13th Dr., SE, Bothell, Washington 98012.
E-mail clongh@@gte.
"Portrait and Biographical Album, Vermillion and Edgar Counties, Illinois" Chapman Bros., 1889, Chicago, Ill., pp 801-804.
Upon reaching man's estate, cleared a farm from the timber. He likewise converted this into a plantation, principally devoted to tobacco. He left North Carolina, however, and emigrating to Indiana settled among the earliest pioneers of Washington County. By entry and purchase he became the owner of 1200 acres of land and was prosperous. He served as a Justice of the Peace during the greater part of his residence there and was prominent member of the Baptist Church. Politically, he was a Jackson Democrat of the strongest type. He died in 1856.
David emigrated to Vermilion County, Ind., in 1827. He entered land from there later to Audrian County where he spent his last days. He was a peaceable and law-abiding citizen and a member in good standing of the Baptist Church.
Of the first union here were born six children, viz.: Washington, Enoch and Solomon, deceased; Henry H., Malinda, deceased and Martha.
Of the second marriage there were born seven children: Melissa, a resident of Washington County; Rachel, deceased; Mary, of Washington County; David, a resident of Kansas; Merrill of Pawnee County, Neb., David, a resident of Kansas; Merrill of Pawnee County, Neb., Benton and John, the two latter deceased.
"5 Generations of the Pfautz-Fouts Family" by Audrey L. Woodruff
His father, Andrew Sr. gave (or sold) to David some land in Rowan (now Davidson) County, NC that was located between the Morgan's & Parr's on the waters of Hodges Fork of the Uwharrie.
In preparation for his exodus he sold his land - 16 September 1808 - David Fouts to Benjamin Fry, 155+ acres on waters of Uhary, bounding Arthur Parr, William Hughes * David Fouts by Andrew Fouts, Sr.../s/
David Fouts. Wit: E. Morgan, James Hughes, (Rowan Deeds 2:454 * 457). Soon thereafter, David moved to Clark Co., Indiana, in the company with his Parr relatives; also , brother Noah and his Wright relatives (present day Washington Co.)
Indiana Territory was organized in 1800 and the first section was in the extreme southern end, with Knox as the original county. Clark was created from Knox the following year in 1801 and covered a large area consisting of ten or more present day counties. Clark was divided in 1808 to form Harrison County. The Indiana Territory Land Office opened 1 May 1808 in Jeffersonville in Clark county.
No sooner did the Fouts arrive in Indiana Territory, when they were caught up in a set of circumstances that had it's beginning thousands of miles away. For a number of years the French and British had been engaged in a War on the high seas. Throughout President Thomas Jefferson's eight years in office, our new Republic had endeavored to remain neutral. However, both warring countries greatly hindered our commerce abroad, stopping and searching our ships, while the British removed any seamen they believed to be British subjects. James Madison became President in 1809 and, walking in the footsteps of Jefferson, sought to solve the foreign problem by methods that avoided war. On land no less than on the sea, the British were belligerent towards the United States. They protected the Indian Chief Tecumseh, who was terrifying the frontier by his forays on white settlements. Also, the Indians were supported by the French fur=trading interests that centered at Quebec. As the preying on American commerce continued, events seemed to take affairs out of President Madison's control and eventually War was declared on the British in 1812.
The early settlers in the Indiana Territory, on the outlying edge of our frontier, was caught up in this Indian trouble, and their only resources was to form local Militia's to protect their homes and lives. Many settlers retreated South and off the Frontier for the duration of the war (1812-1815). The Wright's crossed the Ohio river and stayed with the Sears family on the Kentucky shore. Others remained, taking their places in the defence of their homes and nation. Among these were David and Noah Fouts, who were commissioned on 21 March 1809 in the Clark County Militia. (Baird's "History of Clark County, Indiana"; also, on the list compiled by the Indiana State Library) A military "commission" indicated that you were accepting military responsibility and held a Grovener Commission, while every male 16-60 was a member of the militia.
David Fouts, "a resident of Indiana" made his first Entry SW1/4Q S6 T2N R5, entry No. 333, 22 December 1809. David was a Deacon & Secretary of Upper Blue River Baptist Church called "Sharon". Following a little difficulty with the Parr family, he resigned. David's second wife, Lavina Tadlock, was born in 1815 and died 1855. David's first child was born in 1800 and his last child was born in 1850 -- quite a man was David.
David was one of he first Justices of the Peace when Washington County was organized under Territorial Government. On 15 Sept 1815, David turned into the County Court $.50 he had fined Alexander Camron "for swearing on Sunday.
Source: 5 Generations of the Pfautz-Fouts Family compiled by Audrey L. Woodruff, C.G.R.S., 1987


Lavina Tadlock:

Born 1805
Died 1855
Buried Franklin Cemetery, Washington Twp, Washington, IN USA
Reference number: 5001
Of Washington CO, IN. This is the family of Sue Fouts Page and Hazel Fouts Pretzler. Notes supplied by Hazel. Sue has surname for Lavina as Trueblood

Melissa Fouts³ {F} [P3291] = Allen Thompson {M} [P5517] > Family [F3101]

Married Tuesday 13 June 1843, , , Washington CO, IN USA

Melissa Fouts:

Born Tuesday 7 January 1823, , Washington CO, IN USA
Died 1897, ,Canton, Washington Twp, Washington CO, IN uSA
Reference number: 4366


Allen Thompson:

Born Wednesday 26 July 1815, Canton, Washington Twp, Washington CO, IN USA
Died Monday 4 March 1901, , , Washington CO, IN USA
Reference number: 7275
of Washington CO. IN

Lucinda Fouts {F} [P3957]

Born Sunday 16 April 1826
Died Wednesday 4 August 1847, , Washington CO, IN USA
Reference number: 5037

Rachel Fouts {F} [P3953] = Aaron Hall {M} [P5531] > Family [F3106]

Rachel Fouts:

Born Tuesday 29 January 1828
Died Thursday 17 August 1854
Reference number: 5033


Aaron Hall:

Born Sunday 25 December 1825
Died Tuesday 12 September 1854
Reference number: 7289

David Fouts⁴ {M} [P3955] = Nancy Mull {F} [P4786] > Family [F2642]

David Fouts:

Born Sunday 14 March 1830, , Washington CO, IN USA
Died Friday 23 November 1894, Collyer, Trego CO, KS USA
Buried Wa-Keeney Cemetery, Wa-Keeney, IO USA
Reference number: 5035
"Portrait and Biographical Album, Vermilion and Edgar Counties, Illinois", Chapman Bros., 1889, Chicago, Ill, pp 801-804
David enlisted in the Civil War in 1861 in the 35th Missouri Infantry and served as A Captain until the close of the war, then David moved to Kansas
OBITUARY 1 December 1894
Captain David Fouts, of Collyer was stricken with paralysis of the brain while at work in his store on Thursday, November 22, 1894 and died Friday morning.
Collyer post conducted their usual burial services at the home of the deceased Sunday morning after which the remains under the auspices of Collyer post were taken to Wa-Kenney and turned over to the Masonic order of this city.
The remains were then taken to the M. E. church and Rev. Johnson delivered a very impressive sermon after which they were removed to the cemetery where the last sad and impressive rites of the Masonic order were administered. A large concourse of people assembled to pay their last respects to their departed comrade and brother.
He leaves a wife and three grown sons to mourn his death.
Captain Fouts was born in Washington County, IN, March 14, 1830; was married to Miss Nancy Mull, July 30, 1850 and moved to Iowa the same year.
The deceased was a devout Christian and joined the Christian church in 1853. He served three years in the late war as captain of company G, 35th Missouri Infantry.
He moved to Trego County in 1878 and located about seventeen miles north west of Wa-Keeney on the Saline River and followed stock raising and farming until the spring of 1877 when he traded his land and stock to W. S. Kyle for a stock of general merchandise and moved into Collyer where he has been in the mercantile business up to the time of his death.
Captain Fouts was beloved and highly respected by all who knew him, and his sudden death was a painful shock to his many friends, -- many of them could hardly realize it--as the Captain only a few days before his death was apparently in good health and seemed to be in the best of spirit.
The loving wife and sons have the heartfelt sympathy of their many fiends in there sad bereavement.





Nancy Mull:

Born 1832
Died 1914
Buried Wa-Keeney Cemetery, Wa-Keeney, IO USA
Reference number: 6382
"Declaration for Widow's Pension" dated 5 Dec 1894 lists Nancy as 61 and a resident of Collyer, Trega CO, KS
OBITUARY
Mrs. Fouts' long siege of illness ends with death. She died Sunday about 12 m, at her home in this city. Funeral services were held at the Baptist Church Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock; the interment was made in the Wa-Keeney cemetery beside her husband. Mrs. Fouts has been a resident of this vicinity for about 35 years. She is sadly missed and leaves to mourn her loss one daughter and three sons- Mrs. Alice Purnell, Frank,Thomas and Charley Fouts.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for the great kindness and sympathy shown us during the illness and death of our beloved mother and especially to Rev. Dodge for his beautiful and loving words of conform in our hour of sorrow, also for the beautiful floral offerings.
Mrs. Alice Purnell
Frank Fouts
Thomas Fouts

Elizabeth Fouts {F} [P4053]

Born Tuesday 8 May 1832
Died Tuesday 15 September 1857, , Washington CO, IN USA
Reference number: 5133

Merrill Fouts {M} [P3956] = Susan Mulls {F} [P5538] > Family [F3105]

Married Sunday 21 November 1858, , Worth CO, MO USA

Merrill Fouts:

Born Sunday 27 April 1834, , , IN USA
Died Wednesday 23 August 1922
Buried Ballard, CA USA
Misc. event Type: Age at death (Facts Pg)
Misc. event Place: 88 yrs, 6 mos
Reference number: 5036
"Portrait and Biographical Album, Vermilion and Edgar Counties, Illinois". Chapman Bros., 1889, Chicago, Ill, pp 801-804.
Merrill served in an Indian regiment nearly from the beginning until the close of the Civil War. Merrill was in Thayer County, Nebraska in 1900. Possibly moved to California thereafter.
Micro film in Laguna Nigual, CA, shows is birth as 1834, born in IN


Susan Mulls:

Born Tuesday 13 March 1838, , , SC USA
Died Saturday 15 March 1924
Misc. event Type: Age at death (Facts Pg)
Misc. event Place: 86 yrs, 3 das
Reference number: 7296
Census records on microfilm in Laguna Nigual, CA show her birth place as SC

Thomas H. Benton Fouts⁵ {M} [P3961] = Sarah A. Tatlock {F} [P3962] > Family [F2167]

Married Sunday 21 February 1864

Thomas H. Benton Fouts:

Born 1837
Died Tuesday 13 August 1867
Reference number: 5041
Thomas served in the Civil War. Was Sgt., Co. I, 31st Indiana Infantry; enlisted 5 Sep 1861 at Terre Haute, mustered into Federal Service on 20 Sep 1861; seriously wounded and taken prisoner at Battle of Stone River 31 Dec 1862; immediately exchanged and hospitalized; re-enlisted as Veteran volunteer on 1 Jan 1864 at Bridgeport, Alabama; mustered-out with Company on 8 Dec 1865 at Victoria, TX . On 4 Sep 1886, Sarah A. Reid of Washington Co., Indiana, applied for Child's pension for her daughter Emma I. Fouts, setting forth that she (Sarah) had married Thomas B. Fouts on 21 Feb 1864, that Emma had been born on 7 Nov. 1866, that Thomas B. Fouts had died on 13 Aug 1867, and that she had married James H. Reid on 15 Dec. 1869. On 26 Sep 1898, Emma I. Wallraven, daughter of Thomas B. Fouts applied for the portion of a Child's pension that had been due her prior to her mother's filling in 1886. The claim was denied on the basis of no entitlement (a child was, entitled to a pension only if there was no surviving parent -- Emma's mother had waived the entitlement by remarrying)
Source: John Scott Davenport Newsletter No. 8 , October 1982


Sarah A. Tatlock:

Born ABT 1839
Reference number: 5042
Sarah's name may have been Reid

Adaline Fouts {F} [P4054]

Born Friday 20 September 1839
Died 1855
Reference number: 5134

Mary Jane Foutz {F} [P4147] = Samual Edward Nichols {M} [P5564] > Family [F3104]

Married Sunday 25 March 1866, <, Washington CO, IN>

Mary Jane Foutz:

Born Wednesday 4 May 1842, , Washington CO, IN
Died Sunday 27 February 1916, , Washington CO, IN
Reference number: 5229


Samual Edward Nichols:

Born Monday 6 March 1843, , , KY
Died Thursday 29 April 1920, , Washington CO, IN
Reference number: 7323

John Fouts {M} [P3954]

Born Friday 23 August 1844
Died February 1863, St. Louis, MO
Reference number: 5034
John served in the Army with his brothers, died at St. Louis, MO"Portrait and Biographical Album, Vermilion and Edgar Counties, Illinois" Chapman Bros., 1889, Chicago, Ill., pp 801-804

John, service in the Civil War in the army with his brohters, died at St. Louis, Mo.

Not named in the 1850 census

1 : "Family Infomation"
Family Infomation. Sue Page, Oceanside, CA e-mail QUAINT4900@aol.com.
5 Generations of the Pfautz-Fouts Family, Compiled by Audrey L. Woodruff, C. G. R. S., 1987
2 : "Family Infomation"
Family Infomation. IGI
3 : "Birth Source:"
Birth Source:. Sue Page
4 : "Death Source"
Death Source. copy of obituary
5 : "Death/Marriage/Child"
Death/Marriage/Child. Pfautz Newletter #8 Oct 1982, pg #5