Christian Fox
(1714-1795)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Maria Magdalena Rausch

Christian Fox 1 2

  • Born: 1714 1
  • Marriage (1): Maria Magdalena Rausch
  • Died: 17 Feb 1795, Arendtsville, Adams, PA at age 81 1 2
  • Buried: 19 Feb 1795, Arendtsville: Old Reformed & Lutheran Graveyard, Adams, PA 1 2

   Another name for Christian was Christian Fuchs.

   FamilySearch ID: 2W31-N2R.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Sponsors for baptism of John Christian Gilbert, son of Jacob Gilbert and Anna Margaret Fox on 13 Dec 1794 in Arendtsville: Arendtsville Union Church (Zion Lutheran and Trinity Reformed), Adams, PA. 3

2. Magazine: The Pennsylvania-German Vol. 10: documentation of Gilbert-Fox-Beecher graves, 1909, Lititz, Lancaster, PA. 1 In 1909, N.A. Gobrecht Alatoona, Pa., a descendant of Jacob Gilbert and son-in-law David Beecher, visited his Gilbert, Fox, and Beecher ancestors' graves in Arendtsville, and documented the cemetery in Volume 10 of the Pennsylvania-German magazine entitled "Paper VI, Tombstone Inscriptions of Persons Born Prior to 1800 and Past 16 years at Death at Arendtsville, Adams County, Pa."

Part I in Old Reformed and Lutheran Graveyard

1. Beecher, Elizabeth; n. Keplinger; wf. John Beecher; d. Aug 14, 1845. Aged 90 y.
2. Beecher, John; d. Nov 14, 1838. Aged 90 y. 2 m. "A soldier of the Revolution."
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10. Fox, Christian: d. Feb 17, 1795. Aged 81 y.
11. Fox, Magdalena: d. Dec 9, 1802. Aged 76 y.
12. Fox, John Jacob: d. Nov. 2., 1828. Aged 58 y. 4 m. 2 d.
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15. Gilbert, Jacob; d. Feb 9, 1831. Aged 74 y. 7 m. 11 d.

Part III Bodies exhumed from the old graveyard and reinterred in "Fairview Cemetery" at Arendtsville, Pa.
(partial list shown here)
4. Beecher, David; d. April 13, 1880. Aged 86 y. 7 m. 5 d.
5. Beecher, Anna Mary Gilbert; d. July 30, 1887. Aged 90 y. 3 m. 4 d.

Gobrecht stated: "This graveyard was started by the pioneer settlers in the year 1780. There are over 1200 graves, over which there are no stones or markers, many of these having been broken off or pulled out by vandal hands to be piled up, with few exceptions in the corner of the old graveyard. The names of many of the dead are still preserved in the living descendants. We are informed that no parish record antedating 1870 is extant. ."


Christian married Maria Magdalena Rausch. (Maria Magdalena Rausch was born in 1726 in , , Pennsylvania, USA,1 4 died on 9 Dec 1802 in Franklin Twp., Adams, PA 1 4 and was buried in Arendtsville: Old Reformed & Lutheran Graveyard, Adams, PA 1 4.)


Sources


1 N. A. Gobrecht, "Paper VI, Tombstone Inscriptions of Persons Born Prior to 1800 and Past 16 years at Death at Arendtsville, Adams County, Pa.," The Pennsylvania-German, Volume 10, 1909; Page 98. Online free at Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=cdMwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA98-IA5#v=onepage&q&f=false

2 Find A Grave, http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=2486762&GRid=108329214.

3 Arendtsville Union Church (Zion Lutheran and Trinity Reformed; Arents Church), Adams County, Pennsylvania, Baptism of John Christian Gilbert, son of Jacob and Margaret, 13 Dec 1794.

4 Find A Grave, http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=108330224.



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