Posted on: Pennsylvania Dutch Obituaries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/DutchObits?read=179 Surname: ------------------------- YOU ARE SO RIGHT - IN MY EFFORTS TO CONVEY A FIND I OMITTED THE NAME OF THE OF THE IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR - THOUGH HE MAY NOT BE OF MY LINEAGE WHICH IS SPELLED EITHER FUESS OR FIES -- HIS NAME ON THE TOMBSTONE IS JOHANN MICHAEL FUCHS BORN DEUCHLAND JAN 9 1749 PROBABLY CAME THRU PHIL PA JUST PRIOR TO THE REVLUTIONARY WAR AND SETTLED IN TULPEHOCKEN TOWHSHIP, BERKS COUNTY, PA WHERE HE LIVED OUT HIS LIFE AND DIED ON MARCH 3,1815 --- THE GRAVESTONE,IN MAY I SAY,IS IN RATHER COOD CONDITION AND INDICATES BY THOSE BURIED WITH HIM AS HAVING THE DISTINCTION OF SERVING IN SOME CAPACITY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR -- I HOPE THIS MKES A POSITIVE CONNECTION FOR SOMEONE RESEARCHING THIS GENTLEMAN