Last night while searching I ran across an interesting little compilation of family
history that was prepared over a number of years by C. E. Foreman of Indianapolis. I could
not tell if his ancestor was related to the Furman's who have roots in Allegany County
or not, I am including the Allegany County MD list because it may have some interest to
someone in one of the areas. Henry Foreman,
This line eventually ties into the Pitzer Family of Allegany County through the marriage
of Rachel (daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Sigler) to Samuel Irwin b. 1801) See Irwin
connection in another post.
It intrigues me because I am searching my ancestors who were at George's Creek and
then in Licking County, Ohio. I currently live in Boone County, Indiana so this person
touched all of my areas.
Mr. Foreman was very interested in his genealogy and every Christmas for a number of years
prepared a family letter telling his relatives what he had discovered throughout the
previous year. The book is difficult to search as it isn't well indexed and you have
to really sort through it to find what you are interested in.
A series of family brochures compiled and distributed annual to 600, 1948-72. C. E.
Foreman, 1948
Jacob Foreman
Our ancestor, Jacob Foreman, was born in Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1757 or 1758. He enlisted
in the second year of the Revolutionary War from Reamstown, Pa., and served a total of six
months and two weeks. His first "Tower of Military Duty" was for two months
guarding the power magazines at Lancaster. The next year he served two months guarding
British prisoners in Lancaster. The following year he served two months there guarding
Hessian prisoners.
In his application for pension he stated that his parents were German; that after the war
he had lived in Dauphin, Mifflin and Cumberland Counties, Pa., in Ohio, and at the time of
his application was residing in Boone County, Indiana. On April 11, 1811 his name
appeared with a list of men working on the toll bridge leading from Lancaster, Ohio to
Marietta. Wages were "50c a day, boarding 25c, whiskey 12 1/2c, tools 2 1/2c."
In 1814 Jacob was a single man his occupation being that of a shoemaker. From 1814 to
1819 he was living in Fayette Co., Pa., where his name appeared on the assessor's list
along with that of his son, Henry. After 1819 he moved to Ohio, probably Butler County,
where some of his relatives were then living. In 1831 he went to Boone Co., His last
pension check was dated September 5, 1836.
Jacob Foreman had a number of children, but the names of but a few sons are definitely
known:
(1) Jacob, jr., was born about the year 1782. He and his wife were living in Fayette Co.,
Pa, in 1817. From 1820 to 1847 the family resided in Butler Co., Ohio.
(2) Henry H. Foreman (see sketch)
(3) George was born about 1786. Prior to 1820 he moved with his wife Mary, and family
from Pennsylvania to Licking County, Ohio. They came on to Indiana in 1836 and settled in
Henry Co., where they were still living in 1850, according to the census of that year.
They had at least ten children.
(4) Charles was born in Pennsylvania about 1798. He was living in Ohio prior to 1831 when
he and his family moved to Indiana and settled near Royalton, in Boone County. He died in
1865. His wife, Elizabeth and daughter, Lucinda, were robbed and murdered March 19, 1883.
The Indianapolis News reported that:
"As the first rays of the bright sun brought life to both man and beast at the
Foreman homestead near Royalton, Lucinda Foreman was up and about in the cool morning air.
She gathered up some ears of corn and a milk bucket and started for the cow lot out back.
Her mother -- there was just the two of them left at home -- was in the kitchen, ready to
build the fire.
"Hours later a neighbor, Jacob Cooper, and a small boy came down the road toward the
Foreman home. Their gait was fast. The boy's mother had just told Jacob she
hadn't seen the usual smoke from the Foreman chimney. Maybe somebody had better go
over and see why. So Mr. Cooper and the boy were going to investigate.
"In the cow lot, under a pile of hay they found Lucinda, dead, her head nearly
severed. Four or five hideous wounds marked her body. The earls of corn and the bucket
lay nearby. In the kitchen Mrs. Elizabeth Foreman, Lucinda's mother, lay in a pool of
blood on the floor, her head wrapped in an apron, a carpet partly covering her body. Her
head was also nearly severed.
"Thus the day ended for the two Foreman women, and thus, too a chapter was added to
the history of mystery and violence along the storied banks of Eagle (struck out by pen
and Fishback inserted) creek near the Marion-Boone County line."
Children of Charles and Elizabeth Foreman were: William H. (1818-85), David (1823-37),
Lucinda (1824-83), Louis (b. 1828), Susanna (b. 1829), Charles F. (1831-1923). Elizabeth
(b. 1835) and Milton b. 1838).
Karen