Morning Friend Merle, While I cannot help you directly in regards to the Fouts family I may be able to point you in the right direction. I must admit thought that it will not take you back any further than you are. However, there may be clues you were not aware of. And hopefully Friend Gale will chime in on this. We are aware that out in western German township, Montgomery county, Ohio there was a church. This church is generally known as the Old German Church. That it was of German extraction is not in doubt. But what religion it was is not documented. At least not to my satisfaction. There is an early 20th Century newspaper article printed in an Eaton, Ohio, newspaper stating that it was a Lutheran church. However, research indicates that it was most likely not. So what religion was this church? I have indications that it was likely Pietist in some form or other. I can identify two of the early ministers and one of the justices of the peace. The two ministers were Peter Poyner and Daniel Troyer (Tryer) In 1850 Peter Poyner is listed in the Preble county, Ohio, census as a Baptist preacher from North Carolina. Daniel Tryer is listed as a carpenter living in Germantown, Montgomery county. Conversations with a person; whom I trust in his judgement, indicates that Daniel Troyer was of the Mennonite faith and from Maryland. Daniel apparently spent some time in Virginia as his wife was from that locale. I have not been able to locate any good documentation on either Peter or Daniel. I have enough information to indicate that they were likely of an Anabaptist background. Of the several families out in western German township one of them a family of Pfautz and Fouts. They are from North Carolina and appear to have Anabaptist heritage. Gale Honeyman and I in several conversations over the years have discussed these families as a point of interest. I believe one or two of them intermarry into his families. So you may want to take a look in western German township. Yes, you will not find an answer to your question but you may be able to add to your knowledge about the family. In closing I wish to point out that I believe it is a son or grandson of Andrew Hoover who was a justice of the peace in that region before moving over in to Indiana. His name escapes me at them moment but I believe it was either David or Daniel. He moved over, again if my memory is correct, into Indiana where he was once again a JP. Wayne Webb Editor: Brethren Roots > Don Bowman - or anyone > > I am working on my Kentucky Churches - and need some family > informations. I have received considerable information on the several > generations of the Pfautz/Fouts family, but it does not include much on > Elder Michael Pfautz and Barbara Crumpack - of the Pipe Creek Church MD > > I would like to have family sheet informations on the Elder Michael > Pfautz - and on his children > (info received from Roland Brown -saying that there were 5 children > -indicating information was from Don Bowman) > > I have that Barbara Fouts, daughter of Elder Michael, married in 1753 to > Jacob Stutzman - at Uhwarrie in North Carolina - this cannot be true - > since Michael Pfautz and Barbara Crumpacker were married about that same > time. - I suspect that this Barbara might have been a sister of Elder > Michael. But information on his father, Johann Michael Pfautz, does not > include a daughter, Barbara. His grandfather, Michael Pfautz, does have > a daughter, Barbara - so the name is in the family. That Michael (wife: > Ursula Muhlenhauser) had sons: Jacob and John. I do not have > information on them - it could be possible that the Barbara Fouts who > married Jacob Stutzman was daughter to one of them. > > Roger Sappington, in Brethren in the Carolinas, on the Uhwarry/Ewarry > Congregation, says that September 1, 1764, Jacob Stutzman purchased 230 > Acres. That in the same general area were David Fouts, Jacob Fouts, > John Fouts, Michael Fouts, and Andrew Hoover. My Fouts information > indicates that Andrew/Andreas Hoover had married Catherine Pfautz, > daughter of Johann Michael Pfautz/Catherine Slough - or a sister of > Elder Michael Pfautz (but as I said above - there is no Barbara named as > a sister of this Catherine). Nor does this family include a David > Fouts, and its Jacob and John Fouts died in Pennsylvania (Westmoreland > Co and Lancaster Co) > > Merle C Rummel