FOUKE FAMILY LINES – AN OVERVIEW

This overview of the Fouke family is provided by Fouke genealogist, Darrin R. Fouke, P.O. Box 972, Riverton, IL, 62561-0972. Darrin’s email: dardar@midwest.net

Darrin is also the host of the Fouke Family Association web site:

Genealogy.com site: http://www.genealogy.com/users/f/o/u/Darrin-R- Fouke/index.html?Welcome=999017455

FFA site: http://www.geocities.com/cabinmaste/FoukeFamilyAssociation.html?945742187770

FFA email: foukefamilyassociation@hotmail.com

Let me run through the Fouke groups again. We can chart some of these relationships fairly well back to the sons of "Old" Michal & Sophia Fouke in Shepherdstown, (now West) Virginia:

1. Descendants of Christian Fouke (including most all of us who communicate regularly). Christian is the father of what has come to be known as the "Mount Morris Four" or the four brothers who first moved west from Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., (now West) Virginia to the Mount Morris, Ogle Co., IL area in the 1840s an 1850s. These four brothers were:

also people who get our Fouke surname via adoption)

3. Descendants of their brother Michael Jr.- some in OH, others near Hagerstown, MD

4. Descendants of Joseph Thomas Fouke of Greenville, IL – we have not identified his parents,

yet. Joseph’s descendants include Bill Fouke of Lincoln, IL and his bro. Rick Fouke of

Mendota, IL, and their distant cousin Rick Fouke of Seattle, WA. JTF was from Harper's

Ferry, WV and had close association with Philip Bond Fouke, so I feel safe in saying that he

"belongs" to our group.

5. Jacob Fouke Sr., who lived in IL for awhile, and whose son Jacob Jr. lived and died in

Vandalia, IL had several sons and daughters. The rest of the family moved to Philadelphia in

1850. Surely they must have some Fouke descendants somewhere!! They also hail from

Harper's Ferry, WV. We have not connected them to our family line, yet.

6. And I've also charted several Netherlands Fouke people, but have yet to tie them to us.

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