FOUKE FAMILY HISTORY
Source: Hand typed document: ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD REYNOLDS FOUKE, undated, without citations and with no author noted. The probable author is Richard Reynolds FOUKE. A very legible copy of a copy was received from Shirley Gene PETERSON-FERGUSON and transcribed below by her son-in-law, David W. BRADFORD on March 15, 2000. Note Transcriber's clarifications and notes are shown within brackets [ ]. Original parentheses shown as ( ). Full text follows:
ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD REYNOLDS FOUKE
Michael Fouke - [my great?] grandfather on [my] Father's side. One line of Holland and Germany - [He] came to America in 1769. [He] Came to Maryland with Hugonots [sic].
Thomas Hessey and Elizabeth [were] grandparents on mother's side. [Thomas] Came from Dublin Ireland [and] was Protestant (Methodist) Exhorter. Grandmother Elizabeth was born in America, Shepardstown, Virginia [note: handwritten correction, West Virginia], of Irish extraction.
Robert Phillip Fouke - father of Richard Reynolds Fouke. He was fifth son of eleven boys and one girl.
Margaret Hessey Fouke - [R.R. Fouke's] mother married R.P. Fouke in Shepardstown, [West?] Va. To this union was born two boys and one girl: Richard Reynolds, Frederick Dorsey, Frances Valeria.
Robert Phillip Fouke took to gold mining and came to California in 1849.
Richard Reynolds [Fouke] came to Illinois [from West Virginia] in 1855 to live with [his] uncle [William H. Fouke]. His mother had died in year 1845.
The mother of R.R. Fouke had three brothers in the Confederate Army. All the Fouke side were Union Army. Brothers names were Richard Hessey - James Hessey - Edward Hessey.
Richard Reynolds Fouke enlisted in the Union Army first for three months - Company K - 69th Illinois Infantry. Second enlistment - January 4, 1863 for three years - Company I - 14th Cavalry Illinois Volunteers. Discharged July 31st, 1865 at Pulaski, Tenn. [He] Was wounded in the calf of right leg during battle Station [?stationed in] E. Tenn. during the siege of Knoxville.
Frederick G. [another source cites middle name as Dorsey], brother was born November 12, 1836 and died in 1917. Frances Valeria [Fouke], sister was born February 22, 1839 and died in Freeport, Illinois at 62 years, 1914.
Richard Reynolds Fouke stayed in Illinois nearly two years working on elevators, etc. He was making his way to California. He had heard that his father was gold mining at Bodie, California.
He was in two engagements with Comanche Indians at Buffalo Springs. One white was killed and 18 Indians. Several small engagements followed. Pat Hennesy was killed and buried on the trail. A town sprang up later [and] was called Hennesy, this was after Indian territory became a state. Hennesy was on site of Buffalo Springs.