Robert Smith of Sacramento, Ca:Information about Rose Agnes FULLER
Rose Agnes FULLER (b. 1875, d. 1954)
Notes for Rose Agnes FULLER:A significant part of the information on this Fuller family came from a
book written in 1858 entitled " Cotton's Keepsake" by Rev. Judge A. J.
Cotton who was born in Maine, and came to Lawrenceburg on December
10,1818 , and later had a home in Manchester, Dearborn County, IN. He
undoubtedly knew this Fuller family, and according to articles
published in the November 1997 issue of the "Crawford County
Genealogical Society", he and his wife moved to Crawford County ,IL
approximately 1866, and resided on a small farm in the southeastern
part of the county. That would be in Montgomery Township, near where
the Thomas Fuller/Sussanah Torrence farm was located, and where their
sons Isaac, Martin H., and Daniel Fuller farmed. The articles state
that his wife died September 16, 1869 and he sold his property and
returned on December 21, 1869 to Manchester, IN.
On page 445 and 446 of Cotton's Keepsake is the accounting of the
hanging of Amasa Fuller in 1820 for the murder of Palmer Warren. It
says his brother Daniel claimed the body and buried it at the Wesley
Chapel Cemetery, and shortly after was himself shot by his brother-in-
law and subsequently buried next to Amasa. It goes on to summarize the
bad fortune of the Fuller family---"Amasa was hung, Daniel we have just
said, was shot, his two sons died together in a hospital down south,
one of his brothers was all mangled and torn in a mill just below
Harrison; another brother was taken captive by the Indians----made his
escape---fell into a dispute with a man in Illinois, who struck him
with a heavy hoe upon the head, and he fell, and gasped, and died. And
to crown the climax, old Father Fuller was charged in early time with
killing an Indian-----the sheriff arrested him upon his warrant, took
him upon a horse for Cincinnati, and to make sure of him, tied his feet
under the horse and started, but, having no roads, following blazed
tracks and by-paths, they accidentally ran afoul of a large hornet's
nest, the hornets alighting both upon him and the horse, he lost his
balance, the horse, maddened and frightened to frenzy, ran off with
might and main, dashing the old gentleman against trees, logs, and
everything else, until his brains and all his bowels were dashed and
torn out, and he literally torn into shreds and atoms. This, if not
minutely, is all substantially correct. It occurred not in the far-off
isles of the sea; it is not a story of fiction, but of truth, that took
place right here in our midst, in Dearborn county, and State of
Indiana; and I am a living witness to much of it myself."
Margaret (Siler) McIntosh associated the above story in Cotton's
Keepsake with an article that appeared in a newspaper THE WESTERN SPY,
Cincinnati, OH published Wednesday, June 19, 1805 which gave the
following accounting of the tragic death of the old Father Fuller:
"William Fuller, suspected of having killed an Indian was to be
taken by Sheriff of Cincinnati, Ohio for trial. The sheriff tied his
feet underneath the horse. On the way, the horse ran into a hornet's
nest and got excited. The horse ran wild and knocked Fuller (who had
slid underneath the belly of the horse with feet tied) against trees,
logs and everything else until his brains and bowels were dashed and
torn out. Coroner's verdict----accidental death".
>From this accounting one may conclude that the name of "old Father
Fuller" was William Fuller, that he died shortly before June 19, 1805,
and he is the father of Amasa, Daniel, a son who was killed in a mill
accident, and a son who was captured by the Indians and later was
killed in Illinois by a blow to the head with a hoe. We will see
later, that Margaret believes the son killed in a mill was named
Solomon (my wife Gwen's ancestor), and the son captured by Indians was
named William after his father.
The name of the son captured by the Indians is revealed in " History
of Hamilton County, OH,by Ford and Ford ,1881", wherein accounts of
Indian atrocities are related on page 63:"At North Bend, during the
same year, there were fresh attacks by the Indians. In September,
1791, a Mr. Fuller and his son William, employees of John Matson, Sr.,
were accompanied by Matson's mother and George Cullum to a fish-dam
that was planted in the Great Miami, about two miles from North Bend.
Towards night Fuller sent his son away alone, to take the cows to the
settlement, when he disappeared, and was seen no more until after
Wayne's victory, or nearly four years after he was taken by the
Indians, when he was restored to his friends by Christopher Miller, a
white man who was among the savages at the time of his capture."
A different version of the story of the capture of young Fuller by the
Indians is found in the "History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties,
Indiana, 1885, page 88: Mr. William McClure, of Franklin County,
Ind., whose father came from Kentucky and settled near Cleves in 1804,
gave the following narrative in 1879: "I learned from Capt. Isaac
Fuller, of this county (Franklin), that his father lived as early as
1794 or 1795 at North Bend and in the Big Bottom, and that he helped to
raise the first patch of corn that was ever raised by white men in the
Big Bottom. He also told me he had a brother about sixteen years of
age taken by the Indians from North Bend, about 1795. He had been sent
after the cows. The Indians decoyed him by using a bell. His father,
alone, followed them to near Brookville, and stayed all night on the
place on which I now live, and watched the movements of the Indians,
but was unable to effect his son's release. The Indians took him to
the Upper Wabash country and remained with them about two years. He
was left by his master at the camp with the squaws, with directions
what to do, but after the Indians left, one of the squaws, a half-
sister of the celebrated Tecumseh, ordered him to work at something
else, which he refused to do, when she tried to kill him. He kept out
of her way for the time, believing she would kill him if she had an
opportunity. Soon after he went with her fishing, and watching an
opportunity, he struck her with a club on the back of the head, and
knocked her into a deep hole of water, where he supposed she was
drowned. Then he struck out for Detroit, where he arrived in about a
week, subsisting himself as best he could, being followed by the
Indians all the way, whom he succeeded in eluding. After he arrived in
Detroit he found a friend, who secreted him for a day or two until the
Indians ceased hunting for him, when he conveyed him over to Maldon, on
the Canadian side of the Detroit River, from which place he went to
Buffalo, N.Y., and from there he went home through New York and
Pennsylvania, and down the Ohio River."
This latter version does not identify the first name of the young
Fuller captured by the Indians, and the dates, and story varies from
the first version, but it has to be the same young lad as in the first
version, i.e., William Fuller II. The latter version does identify
Capt. Isaac Fuller as being the brother of William Fuller II.
There is no further information available regarding the date and place
of birth of William Fuller I, or his place of burial. Nor is there
any concrete evidence of his wife's name. Margaret Siler McIntosh
concluded from the last will and testament of a Sarah Fuller of
Dearborn County, and the associated documents settling her estate, that
the Fuller family described above belonging to William Fuller I, and
Sarah Fuller's family are one and the same. Sarah Fuller's will was
witnessed 10-30-1826 and recorded at the Dearborn County Courthouse on
8-26-1844. It described the land she owned as being 1/2 of the
Northeast 1/4 of Section 13, Township 6, Range 1 West of the principal
meridian, situated in Dearborn County, Indiana. She specified that her
personal and real estate be sold upon her death, divided into 30
shares, and distributed as follows:
To son Isaac, $1.00
To son James, $0.50
To son Thomas, 6 of 30 shares
To son Daniel's children, 5 of 30 shares
To son Solomon's children, 6 of 30 shares
To son John, 8 of 30 shares
To daughter Sarah's children 5 of 30 shares
The Executor was named to be John F. Lancaster
The Witnesses were, John L. Bonham, Charles D. Misener, and
Samuel Rees
On August 26, 1844, Charles D. Misener appeared before the Probate
Court to testify that the will was authentic. In the settlement
papers, it indicates a new Executor, George A. Lane , was appointed on
August 21, 1844. Thus, Sarah apparently died sometime shortly before
August 21, 1844. From the estate settlement records is the following:
On 10-14-1846, Isaac Fuller signed with an "X" for $1.00
On 10-14-1846, James Fuller signed with an "X" for $0.50
On 10-14-1846, the administrator in behalf of John Fuller,
deceased,
More About Rose Agnes FULLER:
Burial: 1954, La Junta Colo.
Occupation: Housewife.
More About Rose Agnes FULLER and Ruben R. RUSSEL:
Marriage: April 29, 1900, Ill.
Children of Rose Agnes FULLER and Ruben R. RUSSEL are:
- Lois RUSSEL, d. date unknown.
- Lucille RUSSEL, d. date unknown.
- Rusty RUSSEL, d. date unknown.
- +Edna RUSSEL, b. June 17, 1909, La Junta Colo, d. October 1984, Fair Oaks, California.