Nicholas Fouse

Nicholas Fouse BIRTH 7 May 1748 Bavaria (Bayern), Germany DEATH 9 Aug 1825 (aged 77) Blair County, Pennsylvania, USA BURIAL Shellytown Cemetery Williamsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania,

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Children Photo Margaret Fouse 1786–1855

Elizabeth Fouse Miller 1788–1869

Photo Catharine Fouse Garner 1790–1870

Photo Jacob Fouse 1792–1845

Photo John Fouse 1794–1825

Photo William Fouse 1797–1874

Photo Fredrick Brumbaugh Fouse 1800–1873

Photo Theobalt Dewalt Fouse 1802–1873

Photo Adam Brumbaugh Fouse 1805–1887

Photo Jonathan Fouse 1808–1879

This information came from possibly Myron Fouse

Genealogy of the descendants of Theobald Fauss (Fouse)

Theobald Fauss (Fouse) was born in "1725"? and lived in Rheinville, Rheinfelz, Bavaria. The name "Fauss", "Faass", became "Fouse" in the United States. About 1746 THeobald Fauss married Margaret ---------------, and moved to Deux Ponts, or Zweibrucken, where he died in 1765, at the age of 40.

Zweibrucken, Deux Ponts, a town of Rhenish, Bavaria - on the Erbach, near its confluence with the Sirre, 50 miles west of Speyer. The French name "Deux Ponts", & the German "Zweibruken" both signifying "Two Bridges" - its old castle being situated between two bridges. (Lippincotts Gazetteer)

After his father's death Nicholas helped with the family until his mother's death in early 1784. Nicholas & Theobald Jr. left Zwerbruken in May 1784 & came to the U.S. landing at Baltimore, Maryland in October 1784.

Nicholas was a Lock & Edge Toolsmith by trade. Theobald Jr. was a shoemaker. Nicholas, from which we are descentants, married in 1785 & settled at Funkstown, later called Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. He made his livelyhood as a toolsmith (Blacksmith) In 1789 the family moved by covered wagon & oxens into Centeral Pennsylvania east of the Alleghanies later called "Morrison Cove" a distance of around 150 miles in Huntingdon County ( Later changed to Blair County in 1846) Pennsylvania.

They were members of the German Reformed Church.

Nicholas died August 9, 1825 at the age of 77 yrs 3 mo 2 days. He was buried in the Union Cemetery, now Lutheran on the Clover Creek Road, 4 miles south of Williamsburg, Pennsylvania

Genealogy of the descendants of Theobald Fouse, by Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, 1914. Page 15:

After an illness of almost a week, Nicholas died August 9, 1825, aged 77 years, 3 months 2 days, and was buried in the Union Cemetery, now Lutheran, on the Clover Creek Road, four miles south of Williamsburg, Pennsylvania.