Theobald Pfoutz, Sr., (1738), of Randolph Co., N.C.

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OBJE:_DSCR	Dr. John Scott Davenport
OBJE:_META	<metadataxml><content><line><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'cg times'; line-height: normal; text-align: center;" align="center"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Theobald Pfoutz, Sr., (1738), of Randolph Co., N.C.</span></span></em></strong></p></line><line><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'cg times'; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;</span></p></line><line><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'cg times'; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.4in;">We're still working on the Southern extensions of this family.&nbsp;We know that most of the family of Lewis, sixth son of Theobald, Sr., who settled in Cabarrus Co., N.C., before 1800 and returned to Lutheranism, was wiped out by the Civil War.&nbsp;We've still got work to do on the family of Leonard Fouts, Jr., wife Sarah Younce, which moved, in pieces, 1835-43, to extreme southeast Tennessee--- then, by 1850, to Gilmer and Murray Cos., Georgia.&nbsp;The family, as noted above, was located in Wilkes-Ashe Co., N.C., cl785 until it began moving--- not counting a swing of Leonard Fouts, Sr., with some of his family at least, into Kentucky in the mid-1790s and again in 1801-02.&nbsp;Leonard had land in Muehlenberg Co., Ky., and speculated in land in Warren Co., Ky.<em>&nbsp;</em>He also married a daughter Mary, to Joseph Ray, there in 1795.</p></line><line><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'cg times'; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</p></line><line><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'cg times'; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.4in;">John Martin Fouts, b. 9 Sep 1781, North Carolina. appears to belong to the Theobald,&nbsp;Sr., line, likely through John Leonard Fouts, Sr.&nbsp;In mid-1820, apparently after the Census&nbsp;was taken, a John Martin Fouts and a man named Anderson appeared in the upper River country of Louisiana.&nbsp;There, on 18 Feb 1821, he married Martha Ware Nelson, a widow, said to have been born in North Carolina, 14 Jan 1790.&nbsp;There were five children in the family:&nbsp;Maria Theresa Fouts, b. 20 Nov&nbsp;1821; David Cook Fouts b. 20 Jul 1823; John Martin Fouts, Jr. , b. 21 Aug 1830; Thomas Jefferson&nbsp;Fouts, b. 14 Feb 1834; and Martha Jane Fouts, b. 13 Sep 1836.&nbsp;John Martin Fouts died on 19 Feb&nbsp;18445 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp;There is a possible clue in the oldest son being named David&nbsp;for all of the sons of David Pfautz (1749) by his second wife named their eldest sons David (as did those eldest sons to their eldest sons), but David Pfautz was dead in 1779 when his wife and family&nbsp;appeared in North Carolina records, living adjacent to Andrew Garron on the Rowan (now Davidson) side of the county line with Randolph---less than a mile from the Fouts' of Randolph Co.&nbsp;None of the Widow Fouts' five sons (all born after 1760) were on the tax lists in 1781, meaning they weren't old enough to be taxables, either as householders or unmarried polls, with the possible exception of Nicholas, the eldest---and he only had one son, (his last child born in 1815) naturally named "David".&nbsp;So, it doesn't parse for the David Pfautz line....</p></line><line><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'cg times'; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.4in;">&nbsp;</p></line><line><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'cg times'; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.4in;">... and that takes us back to John Leonard Fouts, the peripatetic Fouts of Wilkes-Ashe Co., North Carolina.&nbsp;John Leonard, Sr., who went by "Leonard" or by "Leonard, Sr.<em>",&nbsp;</em>was a maverick in naming children, having sons George, Leonard, Jr., Joseph, Jacob, and Solomon---all but Jacob being unique among the North Carolina Fouts.&nbsp;He could just as easily have had a John Martin in the group.&nbsp;He would have been born between Joseph and Jacob.&nbsp;Anyway, for the time being, we circumstantially attribute John Martin Fouts to the Theobald, Sr. , line.&nbsp;It became quite a prestigious family in Northwest Louisiana, in medicine, education, and the Baptist ministry.</p></line><line><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'cg times'; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.4in;">&nbsp;</p></line><line><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'cg times'; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.4in;">We've also done some work on further definition of the family of Phillip Fouts, youngest son of John Daniel Fouts (John Fouts, Sr.), eldest son of Theobald, Sr., who died in Randolph Co., North Carolina, in 1803.&nbsp;Phillip was in Randolph Co., North Carolina, in 1810; in Buncombe Co. , North Carolina in 1820 (with a passle of Garrons, Rhodes, and Merrills---all from the Uwharrie); in Shelby Co., Indiana in 1830 (with Arnolds, Absalom and Dougan Fouts---nephews, son of Jacob); in Polk Co., Missouri, in 1840 (with Fouts of Andrew, Sr., of Randolph Co., North Carolina); and his widow and large family, still together, was in Polk Co., Iowa, in 1850.&nbsp;By 1860, the family had scattered to the winds; most had gone on the Oregon Trail in 1852, but one had gone back to Polk Co., Missouri, and then into Kansas; one had gone to Texas, and one had gone gold prospecting in California, We've run all of them down except the one in Texas---he served in Confederate Cavalry, and there's some doubt if he survived.</p></line><line><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'cg times'; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.4in;">&nbsp;</p></line><line><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'cg times'; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.4in;">Anyway, we'll likely be working on Theobald's Fouts for sometime.</p></line><line><p>&nbsp;</p></line></content></metadataxml>
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Alive Dead Death>100 Death<=100 Birth>100 Birth<=100 Roots Leaves
Given names	Surname	Sosa	Birth		Place		Death		Age	Place	Last change
Theobald Dewald David Fouts Pfautz Sr Theobald DeWalt Fouts Sr Dewald Pfautz Dewald Fautz Theobald DeWalt Fouts\Pfautz Father: Hans Michael Pfautz Sr Mother: Ursula Muehlenhauser Father: Hans Michael Pfautz Mother: Ursula Millhouse Muenlenhauser				August 14, 1722 1722	301	Rohrbach, Landkreis Südliche Weinstraße, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Lower Saucon, Sachsen, Germany	9	September 1787 September 1787 1788	236	65	Lexington, Davidson, NC, USA Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, USA Uwharrie River, Randolph, North Carolina, United States	Never	M	YES	YES

Both alive Widower Widow Both dead Roots Leaves Not married Marriage>100 Marriage<=100 Divorce Multiple marriages
Given names	Surname	Age	Given names	Surname	Age	Marriage		Place		Last change