Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Fox and Frederica Caroline Sharver




Husband John Fox 1 2 3 4

           Born: 29 Oct 1777 - Chester Co, PA 2 3
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           Died: 17 Mar 1866 2 3
         Buried:  - Stonerville Cemetery [Stonerville, Fayette Co, PA?]


         Father: Henry Fox (1745-1824) 3 5
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (Abt 1754-1834) 2


       Marriage: 1820 6

   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Rosenberger (      -      ) 2 3



Wife Frederica Caroline Sharver 4

            AKA: Caroline Fredrika Sharber,2 Frederica Carolina Sherbus 6
           Born: Abt 1798 - Canton of Kircheimlanden, Switzerland
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           Died: 23 May 1876 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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Children
1 M David Fox 4

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2 M John S. Fox 4

           Born: 28 Jan 1824 4
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         Spouse: Margaret Kintigh (1828-      ) 7


3 M Adam S. Fox 8

           Born: 24 Dec 1826 9
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         Spouse: Margaret Trout (1827-      ) 10
           Marr: 4 May 1847 9


4 M Benjamin Fox 4

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5 M Daniel Fox 4

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6 M Jesse J. Fox 4

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7 F Anna Fox 11 12

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         Spouse: Rev. Peter Loucks (1828-1881) 6 11 12
           Marr: 1855 12



General Notes: Husband - John Fox


He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was twenty years of age when his father removed to Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County. He accompanied the elder man in this migration and made his permanent home in the place chosen by his father. He also was a large land owner in the region and owned six hundred acres situated in Mount Pleasant and North Huntington townships. He was a prominent member of the Mennonite church, and a member of the old Whig party, taking a prominent part in the affairs of the community until the time of his death.

With his first wife he had one son and three daughters.
To his second wife were born six sons and one daughter.


General Notes: Wife - Frederica Caroline Sharver


Another source states that she was born in Germany. [Wittenberg, Germany.]

She was born in Germany, in the same state as her husband's father. In her journey to America, a young girl, and practically without accompanying relatives, she was eighteen weeks on the ocean.

She was from the canton of Kirchheimlanden, whence she came to America in 1817, when but twenty years old, all alone, without any relative or acquaintance on board the vessel.

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Sources


1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 688.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 584.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 388.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 377.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 583.

6 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 646, 688.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 378.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 3, 377.

9 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 381.

10 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 3.

11 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 965.

12 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 82.


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