Re: Fogle cemetries of Ohio
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In reply to:
Re: Fogle cemetries of Ohio
7/30/01
a Peter Fogle, settled in Caldwell in the early 1800s, brother of my ancestor Jacob Fogle.
HISTORY OF NOBLE CO., OHIO
L. H. Watkins & co.
1887
Page 487
The Fogleswere a numerous and respectable family.They were natives of Virginia, but came here from Washington County, Pa.There were three brothers, JACOB, Michael and Peter, who settled in the same neighborhood.JACOB and Michael came first and a year of so later Peter settled on the farm where he lived and died.He came about 1818.He was the first justice of the peace in the township and held the office about twenty years. He was also an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.He died in 1875, at the age of89 years. The FOGLE brothers were all married before they came to Ohio.Jacob lived and died in Noble Township. His son Jacob still lives here.He and Mrs Mary Merry Caldwell, are the only children of JACOB FOGLE now living in the county.Michael moved to Enoch County and died there.He left no family.
Peter Fogle was twice married.His first wife was Elizabeth Salliday, and their children were Mary, Eliza, Sarah and Margaret, all living, the oldest two in this county.For his second wife he married Phebe Stevens.Their children were Rachael (Rucker), who lives on part of the homestead; John, Illinois; Lucretia, Kansas; Anna, dead; Annary, Vinton County, Ohio; James, Colorado;George, Kentucky; and Peter, Caldwell.Peter lived on a farm until 1879, and then engagedin hotel-keeping in Caldwell.Since 1880 he has been in the business of undertaker and furniture dealer in Caldwell, owning a large and fine store.He has a German Bible, printed in 1590, which has been in the Fogle family nearly three hundred years.