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Standard Speaker, Hazleton, PA Monday, December 3, 2001
Gertrude I. Fritz, 96, a former, and long-time resident of Audenried, died Saturday at the Carbon County Home for the Aged, Weatherwood, where she had lived for the past ten years. Born in Cranberry, November 3, 1905, she was a daughter of the late Nicholas and Minnie (Kepp) Hildebrand, and spent most of her life in Audenried.
Mrs. Fritz was a member of Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Audenried.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Fritz, Sr.; a son, Thomas Fritz, Jr.; brothers, Thomas, Walter, Albert and Charles Hildebrand; and sisters, Minnie Frailey, Catherine Morton, Mabel Dalton, Hazel Applegate, and Margaret Merenda. Surviving are sons Edwin G. Fritz, Weatherly; Donald L. Fritz, Loganville, GA; four grandchildren, four great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. from the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Audenried, where her pastor, Rev. Donald Striker, will preside. Burial will follow in Sky View Memorial Park, Hometown. Friends may call at Salem Lutheran Church, on Wednesday from 10 a.m. until the time of the service. Arrangements are under the direction of the Krapf & Hughes Funeral Home Inc., of Hazleton.
The following Foose information was contributed by Edward Sekula of Netcong, NJ.
It can be found at http://members.aol.com/gsmithsan/foose4.htm
The following transcribed article was provided by John R. Ackerman. A special
thanks for bringing this article to our attention. [Now can we tie my John FOOSE
to his J. Nicholas FOOSE back in Germany? /GCS]
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine,
Volume XVIII-No. 2, September 1951.
The Early Settlement of the Foose Family
The early American settlement of the Foose (Foos or Fuss) family was in the
Schuylkill River valley between Valley Forge and Reading, Pennsylvania, in
the present counties of Montgomery, Chester, and Berks (see Figure 3). The
variations of the family's name on records :in Pennsylvania are normally Foos,
Foose, Fuss and, rarely, Fass, Feis, Feuse, Foas, Foice, Fooce, Foot, Fouce,
Fouse, Fouze, Fow, Fuce, Fuchs, Fus, Fuse, Fusse, Fusz, Fuys, Fuz, Fuzz. The
names are pronounced similarly to goose or foot. This is Germanic and indeed
the name is German for foot.
Nicholas or Johan Nicholaus Fuss, First Foose-to-Settle in Pennsylvania
The "Account of Palatine Passengers on board ye Pennsylvania Merchant, John
Stedman, Commander. from Rotterdam (Holland), at the day of their arrival at
Philadelphia, September ye 10 th---1731" includes in the list of "Men over
sixteen" years of age the name--Nicholas Fuys. and in the list of "Children
under the age of .161, the names Magdalena Fuvs and Maria Fuys. The
complementary list of those .same “Palatines imported in the ship Pennsylvania
Merchant, Jno. Stedman. Mr., from Rottm., but last from Dover (England),
Qualified Septr.. 11th., 1731” before the Court at Philadelphia, contains the
signature of .this immigrant,. Niklas Fuss.
As stated in the preceding paragraph, with Nicholas on the Pennsylvania
Merchant in 1731 were two daughters under 16, but no wife. Perhaps she died
on the arduous voyage to America; if so, he soon remarried., (In one recorded
instance in 1732, the transatlantic crossing took 24 weeks. and over 100 of the
150 passengers died of hunger. These ships were very crowded and unsanitary;
bad weather and pirates often prolonged their voyage.)
Clues to the Origin and Early Homes of the Foos Family in Europe
Letters in 1906 between Foos families in America, Germany, and France (the
result of an exhibit in Paris by The Foos Gas Engine Co. of Springfield, Ohio
being seen by a lawyer from Paris, Louis Foos) yielded the following
information: According to Louis Foos. the family was of Alsatian (area of
France on the-German border) origin. Around 1738 a father came into discord
with-his three sons after which two migrated, one to Germany and one to
America. The 1738 date is interestingly close to Nicholas Fuss’ 1731 arrival in
America. The grandfather of Louis (who was the son of the son that did not
migrate away from Alsace), Benard Foos. was born in Shedes (Schaidt), Alsace
:in 1773. The father of Louis, Pierre Foos, was born at Riedselsy, Alsace in
1808.
A letter to Mrs. Theodore Baily (the author of reference 2) in 1948 from
Martha Schollmayer, born Foos, of Bad Durkheim, Germany stated that her
family originated from Christian Foos,--the son who went to Germany and
settled in Wahenheim in the Palatinate where he married and had a son in 1740
whose name was Phillip Foos. She indicated that the name Foos was then a
very rare one. She also indicated-that the family was originally Catholic, but
that she had been brought up in the Protestant faith of her Mother. In 1609, the
hamlet, Nofelden, Germany had 21 house owners including Jacob Foos, and
living with him were wife, Eva, two brothers, Nickel, a linen weaver, and
Thomas, also two sons and a servant, per the Protestant Church Archives of
Konken,
Hence, Nohfelden, Wachenheim, Riedselz. and Schaidt (using their modern
German spellings) may have been early homes of the Foos family or families.
The arrow in Figure 1 (not shown here) indicates the general region of the Palatinate in Germany
and Alsace in France. Figure 2 shows this region in greater detail. With the
aid of Figure 2 (not shown here). the above municipalities are located as follows:
(1) Nohfelden is located about 7 miles south of Birdenfold
(2) Wachenheim is about 15 miles West of Ludwigshafen
(3) Riedsely, France is about 15 miles west of the Rhine River and 4 miles south of Weissenburg
(4) Schaidt is 7 miles east northeast of Weissenburg.
These four towns in the Palatinate and Alsace are within about a 60 mile area.
The following can be viewed at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/o/o/Eugene-Foose/?Welcome=1028636085
The Ancestors of Eugene Richard Foose
Updated July 18, 2002
Eugene R. Foose
26022 Reynolds Street
Loma Linda, CA 92354
A-United States
(909) 796-4020
genes74@yahoo.net
I'm Eugene Richard FOOSE and I am researching the FOOSE or FUSS family of Pennsylvania. According to passenger lists and legal documents Nicholas FUSS or FUZZ arrived Philadelphia Sep 11, 1731 with two daughters from Rotterdan via Dover, England. He later married Elisabeth and they had 14 additional children. He died Sep 1762. I'm interested in his son Conrad FOOSE or FUSS (b PA 1746; d NY 1820) and Conrad's second wife, Catherine. They had two sons. I'm interested in Jacob FOOSE (b PA 1782; d
NY 1841) their first son. He married Mary TAYLOR (d NY 1861) and they
had nine children. Their son John FOOSE (d PA 1848)married Betsey LEE (b NY or VT about 1794; d MN 1857) and they had five children. My great grandfather was their first son Henry David FOOSE (b NY about 1834; d KS about 1911). He married Mary PITTENGER (b NJ 1838; d KS 1929) and they had six children. Their last child, William Isaac FOOSE (b MI 1873; d CA 1961) was my grandfather. He and his second wife, Minnie Louella PLOTNER (b KS 1883; d CA 1939) had ten children while living in the
Morehead, Kansas area. Thier last son, Claude Eugene FOOSE (b KS 1921; d CA 1994) was my father. He married Emma Eunice SMITH (b WY 1921) and they had two children. My sister, Shirley Ann (b CA 1942) and myself, (b CA 1946).
The following photos were submitted by Alice Wescoe Fritz
and family
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 Alice (Wescoe) and Franklin Fritz |
 Franklin and Ted Fritz |
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 David and Theresa (Bilder) Fritz |
 David W. Fritz, Jr. |
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 Franklin Fritz |
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 Pearl Fritz Wonderly |
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 Patti, Val, Brenda, Judy, Scott, Maryann |
 Patti Fritz Lang and Valerie Fritz |
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 Pearl with her Uncle Johnny and Ted |
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Thank you for these submissions. If anyone else would like to represent their family in the David Fritz Jr. line please submit the information/photos/recipes.
