The George Fox Family, Pierce Co., Wisconsin

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The George Fox Family

Kindly written and submitted by Mike Fox, e-mail: mfox@pinenet.com

The George Fox family settled in Pierce County sometime around 1885.  
George Fox's parents were Michael and Appolonia Fuchs.  They came from 
Bavaria in 1852, settling in Jefferson County, WI, in the Sullivan area.  
George Fox was born in Sullivan WI on 21 November 1852.  He met his 
wife, Katherin Dvorak in Sullivan and they were married in Watertown 
on 23 November 1880.  Then around 1885, because most of Katherine's 
family had moved to Pierce County, George and Katherine bought a small 
farm in River Falls Township.  They lived and worked here until 1920 
when they rented the farm to Joe Gregor on shares and moved to Rice 
Lake, WI.  George came back in 1921 to help with the threshing.  He 
fell on the separator and bruised his lungs causing "galloping 
consumption", of which he was thought to have died, but his death 
certificate listed the cause of death as Tuberculosis, 14 July 1922.

George and Katherine Fox had 5 children.  They were:  Mary, b. January 
1881, d. November 1955; John, b. July 1883, d. March 1930; George, 
Jr., b. January 1886, d. June 1969; Katherine, b. May 1891, d. about 
1947 and Laura, b. July 1894, d. April 1965.

John Michael Fox was my great-grandfather.  He married Stella Kaezor 
at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Big River, WI on November 24, 1908.  
They bought a farm in the Donegal section of River Falls Township and 
lived there for about 8 years.  In 1916 they bought a farming 
Ellsworth Township just outside the village of Beldenville on the 
Trimbelle Township line.  The house is still there today, but the barn 
is long gone.  Many of my fox relatives spent summers at Stella's.  
John Fox passed away at home on March 14, 1930 after a short illness, 
possibly pneumonia, caused by a fall down a set of stairs.

John and Stella had 6 children.  They were:  Rose (Peterson/Penny), b. 
Jun 1910; Edith (Stotka), b. July 1911, d.?; Leonard (Bud), b. 
February 1913, d. January 1973 (my grandfather); Clara, b. October 
1914, d. April 1915; Lucille (Tootie), b. November 1924, d. about 
1965; Katherine (Buck), b. Feb, 192?.