Jacob Foutz (son of John FOUTZ and Elizabeth HINKLE)273 was born 20 Nov 1800 in Washington, Franklin Co., Pennslyvania273, and died 14 Feb 1848 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah273. He married (1) Margaret Mann on 22 Jul 1822 in Green Castle, Franklin, PA273. He married (2) Lucinda L. Ross (Loss) on 31 Jan 1846273.
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Ancestral File Number: 1980-2S From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. BAPISM: FEB 1834/30 AUG 1967
BISHOP FOUTZ CHEATS DEATH (The Church News, March 9, 1968, page 16)
Bishop Jacob Foutz had cheated death at Haun's Mill, Missouri, but it finally caught up with him in a Salt Lake Valley gravel pit. In his 48 years of life. He had been a trusted leader during some of the severest trials of the Church. Born Pennsylvania Dutch, he learned German as a child. English came later while he was apprentice bricklayer. Afterestablishing himself as a journeyman in his trade, he married Margaret Mann. They soon moved to Ohio, where the opportunities of a new and booming country seemed to promise a better life. In Ohio, they found the Mormon's. A pair of missionaries came to Richland County area in which the Foutz family lived. Margaret attended a meeting they held and came home determined to listen to them no more. Nevertheless, she went with Jacob to the next meeting. His reactionswere exactly the opposite. "This is just what I have been looking for!" he exclaimed. He was baptized the next day, despite his wife's ridicule. A month later, she changed her mind and joined the Church also. A branch was established in the area with Jacob as its president. He remained in this position until he moved with his family to Caldwell County, Missouri, early in 1837. They settled on the Crooked River, several miles south of Far West, headquarters of the Church. When the trouble between Mormons and non-Mormons began, Jacob was asked to join the brethren guarding Haun's Mill which was being threatened withdestruction by the mob. Jacob took his family with him to the mill and settled them in a cabin there. On the day of the infamous attack on the mill by the mob, Margaret was on her way to the stream to get a bucket of water when the firing began. Bullets whizzed past her as she ran and fell behind a fallen tree trunk. Jacob and several older men barricaded themselves in the log blacksmith shop which proved to b a trap rather than a refuge. The mob fire poured through he chinks killing or wounding everyone in the structure. Jacob was wounded in the hip. Before the mobsters came into the shop to finish off anyone, who might be left alive, he pulled the bodies of dead companions over himself inthe hope of escaping notice. Next morning, Margaret came in and found him. With the help of one of the brethren who had escaped injury, she loaded him into a wagon and took him home. He recovered in time to move with the rest of the Church to Illinois, but was never again the robust man he had been. At temporary stopping places in Adams and Brown counties, he served as counselor to the presiding officers in the Church organizations. After settling in Nauvoo, he became bishop of the Fifth Ward and later to the Eighth Ward. In the migration to Utah, he was captain of 50 in a company that reached Salt Lake Valley in Sept. 1847. He was appointed to preside as bishop over part of the fort that was constructed that year. During the winter, he worked as much as he could in clearing ground for spring planting and in building an adobe house. Februrary14 was a decent day so Jacob joined other men in the settlement hauling gravelfrom the mountainside. They brought him home in a wagon, his day's work and his life's work was done. He had died, probably of a heart attack, while working in the pit. --Arnold Irvine
(Sources--"Henson Walker Family Records" edited by Floyd A. Walker)
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. BAPISM: FEB 1834/30 AUG 1967
BISHOP FOUTZ CHEATS DEATH (The Church News, March 9, 1968, page 16)
Bishop Jacob Foutz had cheated death at Haun's Mill,Missouri, but it finally caught up with him in a Salt Lake Valley gravel pit. In his 48 years of life. He had been a trusted leader during some of the severest trials of the Church. Born Pennsylvania Du
More About Jacob Foutz: Baptism (LDS): 30 Aug 1967273 Burial: Unknown, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.273 Endowment (LDS): 22 Dec 1845, NAUVO.273 Record Change: 23 Jul 2001273 Sealed to parents (LDS): 30 Mar 1979, PROVO.273
More About Jacob Foutz and Margaret Mann: Marriage: 22 Jul 1822, Green Castle, Franklin, PA.273 Sealed to spouse (LDS): 28 Jan 1846, NAUVO.273
More About Jacob Foutz and Lucinda L. Ross (Loss): Marriage: 31 Jan 1846273
Jacob Foutz (b. 20 Nov 1800, d. 14 Feb 1848)
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