[email protected] wrote: > > I know almost nothing about the Foxes... I only have this obit: > > Bourbon Mirror Thursday, Nov 10 1887 Page 3 > Mrs. Mary Fox, an aunt of Mrs. Mary Shively and great aunt of Mrs. John S. > Baxter and Mrs. Samuel Corl, died on the 4th inst., at the residence of her > son, Mr. Jacob Fox, in Van Wert, OH. Had she lived until the 12th of > December next she would have been 95 years of age. Her son writes that the > bones in her limbs had become so decayed that they broke in lifting her. > > Can anyone tell me what county contained Van Wert? It appears that my Corls, > the Orins, and the Foxes may have followed the same paths, from PA to OH, > maybe back to PA, and then on into IN. Van Wert, Ohio is in Mercer County.