FUCHS/FOX

Hans Kaspar Fuchs (also called Peter Fuchs) was born about 1638 in Werschweiler, Saarbrücken, Germany, and died 11 May 1702 in Werschweiler. He married about 1660 Agnes Koch (1640 - 4 Dec 1686) daughter of Peter Koch (d.21 Feb 1669) and Juliane Gillen They were Lutheran, and had the following children:

1. Hans Nickel Fuchs (c.1660 - 9 Mar 1689) m. 17 Jan 1682 Katharina Elizabeth Keip (1648-1711) He was a cattle herdsman in Dörrenbach.
2. Maria Magdalena (Margareta) Fuchs (c.1665 - 30 Oct 1738) m.1692 Johann Nikolaus Leonhard (1676 - 25 Sep 1716) a farmer in Werschweiler
3. Katharina Fuchs (12 Apr 1668)
4. Johann Wilhelm Fuchs (18 Dec 1670-12 Aug 1741) m. 30 Jan 1691 in Ottweiler to Maria Engel Henne (1661-3 Jan 1743), He was a farmer and blacksmith in Werschweiler.
5. Hans Jakob Fuchs (10 May 1672-2 Aug 1741) m.1697 Maria Barbara (Katharina) Leonhard (1680-8 Jan 1743) He was a farmer in Werschweiler.
6. Maria Katharina Fuchs (1676-1753) m.24 Jun 1704 Johann Gerhard Müller (20 Feb 1684 - 30 Oct 1756) a hunter in Werschweiler.
7. Johann Wilhelm Fuchs (4 Aug 1680-12 Mar 1733) m.18 Apr 1702 Anna Eva Müller (9 Mar 1684 - 6 Jun 1736) He was a blacksmith in Dörrenbach.
8. Eva Fuchs (28 May 1683)

Johann Wilhelm Fuchs was born 4 Aug 1680 in Werschweiler, and died 12 Mar 1733 in Dörrenbach, He married 18 Apr 1702 Anna Eva Müller (9 Mar 1684 - 6 Jun 1736) daughter of Johann Wendel Müller and Maria Elizabeth Neufang. Wilhelm was a blacksmith, and they were Lutheran. They had the following children: (probably dates of baptism)

1. Johann Conrad Fuchs (c.1704 - 16 Feb 1755)
2. Johann Martin Fuchs (21 Sep 1707) m.1 Nov 1730 Maria Magdalena
3. Maria Margaretha Fuchs (3 Mar 1708)
4. Johann Caspar Fuchs (24 Jan 1711 - 14 Jun 1789) herdsman in Dörrenbach.
5. Maria Katharina Fuchs (27 Oct 1713)
6. Hans Adam Fuchs (16 Jul 1715)
7. Johann Adam Fuchs (13 Dec 1716-1768) emigrated to America 1742
8. Johann Ludwig Fuchs (27 Apr 1718 - 5 Jun 1718)
9. Maria Elizabetha Fuchs (31 Aug 1719) emigrated to America 1742
10. Anna Maria Fuchs (15 May 1724 - 6 Jun 1736) died the same day as her mother
11. Georg Jacob Fuchs (1 Sep 1726 - 10 Jul 1727)
Thanks for the above information (including Müller and Neufang Families) to Reimund Benoist of Dörrenbach, whom I visited in May, 2004, and his Familienchronik für Dörrenbach, Werschweiler und Wetschhausen 1672-2002.

Johann Adam Fuchs was born 13 Dec 1716 in Dörrenbach, Saarbrücken, and was confirmed in the Evangelische Kirche (Lutheran) in 1736. On 10 April 1742, he and his sister Elizabeth petitioned for manumission, and received it without right of return, to visit their brother Caspar in France (Alsace) and to then go on to Pennsylvania. Adam arrived in Philadelphia on the Loyal Judith 2 Sep 1743. When he swore allegiance to King George, his age was given, and transcribed as 20, when he was actually 26. He lived in Tulpehocken, Berks Co, PA, in 1752, and started calling himself Adam Fox. He received a warrant for land in what is now Shenandoah County, Virginia, in October, 1752, settling on Mill Creek. His will was probated in 1768. He married about 1750 Catherine, who died about 1786. She may (or may not) have been the sister or daughter of Mark Ilor (Eyler, Eilor). Their children were

1. Eva Margaretha Fox was born 17 Oct 1751 and baptized 1 Nov 1751 at Tulpehocken, Berks Co, PA, married Johann Jacob Derrick (1752) and moved to Sevier Co, TN
2. Catherine Fox (c.1753) married Jacob Rausch and moved to Gallia, Ohio
3. Barbara Fox (c.1755) married Jonas Rausch and moved to Meigs Co, Ohio
4. Anna Marie Fox (c.1757) married John Snavely
5. Magdalena Fox (c.1759) married John Lindamuth
6. Adam Fox (c.1760-before1830) married Elizabeth Derrick and moved to Sevier Co, TN
7. Mark Fox (c.1761-1787) married Ann Baughman and moved to Sevier Co, TN

Mark Fox was born about 1761 in Shenandoah Co, Virginia. He married 5 June 1785 Ann Baughman. In late 1786 or early 1787 he and his brother Adam moved to Sevier County, Tennessee, where he had visited earlier. He was killed and scalped by Indians on the banks of Muddy Creek, Sevier County, June 21, 1787. One record says that Ann remarried 19 Jul 1797 David Shaw. Another says she married about 1798 William Duggan (see Baughman) Mark's only child was:

Grave of Mark Fox, first known death of a white man in Sevier Co, Tennessee, 21 June 1787.

Catherine Fox was born 26 March 1786 in Shenandoah Co, VA, and died 18 Jul 1877
in Harrison Co, Indiana. She married about 1803 Jesse Shields who was born 10 Mar
1782 Rockingham Co VA, son of Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields, died 16 Sep 1848
Harrison Co, Indiana.

1. Agnes Nancy Shields (24May1802or26Dec1804 -29 Sep 1876) m.1821 Adkisson Watson
2. Anna Shields (26 Feb 1806 - 25 Apr 1895) m.19 Jan 1829 Cary Burford
3. Jane Shields (1807-1848) m.13 Jun 1837 William M. Morrison
4. Margaret Shields (1809-1879) m.1830 Aaron M. Bean (she died in St. Cloud, Minnesota)
5. John Shields (25 Dec 1810-12 Feb 1841) m.10 Sep 1840 Eliza Marsh
6. Rachel Shields (1812-1876) m(1) William M Moore, m.19 Nov 1850 H G Barkwell
7. Mark Fox Shields (27 Oct 1814 - 17 Jan 1838)
8. Elizabeth Shields (4 Dec 1816 -16 Nov 1867) m.12 Jul 1840 Jesse C Marsh; m(2) Charles
. . Edward Miller
9. Catherine Shields (9 Dec 1818 - 24 Aug 1867) m.23 Jul 1844 Jonathan Hisey (Misey)
10. William Thompson Shields (27 Oct 1820 - 11 Sep 1900) m.19 May 1847 Epervia C. Nantz;
. . m.3 Nov 1851 Mary M. Miller; m.24 Feb 1858 Mary Jamieson; m.22 Jan 1867 Caroline Jamieson
11. Unnamed daughter (Feb 1825-Feb 1825)
12. Helen Lydia Shields (10 Apr 1826 -18 Aug 1891) m.21 Sep 1852 Charles W Aydelotte
13. Mary Parmelia Shields (12 May 1828 - 4 Jun 1851) m.7 May 1849 Adam Clark Highfill

Anna Shields (1806-1895) m.1829 Cary Burford

Isabel Catherine Burford (1831-1912) m.1851 James F Highfill

Martha Highfill (1853-1922) m.1875 Ephraim Stonecypher

Bertha Helen Stonecypher (1876-1950) m.1904 John Liptrap

Virgil Raymond Liptrap (1907-1977) m.1949 Frances Mary Tate Matthews

James Matthews Liptrap (1951)