FALLIS - FOLLIS Families
Scots-Irish to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana
This is a simple outline of my FOLLIS family.
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My grandparents Milo FOLLIS 1890 Delphos, Van Wert County, Ohio to 1944 Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana and Elizabeth SCHNEIDER 1890 Massillon, Stark County, Ohio to 1932 Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. They were married in the Most Precious Blood Catholic Church. Elizabeth's SCHNEIDER family was Catholic, FOLLIS' were most likely Methodist like the Timmons, with Church of the Brethren the previous generation from the EIKENBERRY families. When Milo died his son Frank was in New Guinea and Louis was in the Hawaiian Islands serving during World War II. This left the mostly minor children orphans who had already spent some time in the Catholic St. Vincent Villa Orphanage after their mother Elizabeth died in 1932. Both are buried in the Catholic Cemetery Fort Wayne, Indiana.
My great-grandparents Thomas Jefferson FOLLIS 1856 Somerset, Wabash County to 1923 Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana and Matilda TIMMONS 1866-1949 Delphos, Van Wert County, Ohio to Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. Thomas' obituary says he was a member of the Methodist Church which was also wife Matilda's church whose nephew a Methodist minister performed her funeral service. Thomas' mother was Church of the Brethren as were all of her family before her. Both are buried in Lindenwood Cemetery Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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2nd great-grandparents Thomas Jefferson FOLLIS 1823 Greene County, Ohio to Union County, Indiana to 1882 Somerset, Wabash County, Indiana and Catherine EIKENBERRY 1822 Preble County, Ohio to Union County, Indiana then 1864 Somerset, Wabash County, Indiana. Catherine is buried in the Mississinewa Memorial Cemetery Somerset, Indiana and Thomas is assumed to be buried there.
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4th great-grandparents were Jacob FALLIS born between 1798-1800 Virginia and probably died in 1824 Greene County, Ohio. The tombstone for Jacob FALLIS in the FALLIS Pioneer Cemetery has an age of only 17 years making Jacob 13 when his first son was born. Most likely the age is wrong, he was actually 27 years old, his wife Hannah KINGERY 1801 of Virginia to Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio to 1858 Somerset, Wabash County, Indiana remarried to Ginnethon KELLEY, then moved to Miami County and Wabash County, Indiana. Hannah and Ginnethon KELLEY are buried in Mississinewa Memorial Cemetery with her FOLLIS grandchildren and daughter-in-law Catherine EIKENBERRY.
5th great-grandparents were Isaac FALLIS 1779 Shenandoah County, Virginia to Lincoln County, Kentucky to 1858 Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio and Mercy VAUGHAN 1774 probably Virginia to Lincoln County, Kentucky to 1834 Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio. Both are buried with Jacob in the FALLIS Pioneer Cemetery on their 160 acre pioneer farm east of Dayton, Ohio just across the county line.
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6th great-grandparents were Jacob FALLIS born after 1742 New Jersey to Frederick and 1797 Shenandoah Counties, Virginia and Sarah SPRINGER about 1746 daughter of Isaac SPRINGER of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to 1809 Shenandoah County, Virginia. Their land was along Jeremy's Run and it is assumed they were buried on it. Vaughn's Mountain is just south of their land, and daughter Sarah Fallis' husband Benjamin WOOD, a Revolutionary War Veteran is buried less than a mile a way to the northeast in the Wood-Conn Cemetery. I am looking for any information on the Isaac Springer family as I have nothing.
Several sources claim a December 7, 1775 marriage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which makes no sense since Sarah SPRINGER is listed in the WOOD Family Bible as mother of Susannah FALLIS born in 1766.
My fifth great-grandfather Jacob FALLIS is claimed by one source as a veteran of the 17th Mounted Militia. I have been unable to confirm this service information so assume it is confused with someone else. Jacob should have been in Virginia. A fourth of Virginia's militia saw active duty and most records have not been found so we may never know.
6th great-grandparents were Thomas FALLIS born before 1710 possibly Ireland or Wales to New Jersey to 1755-1756 Frederick County, Virginia and Elizabeth of Frederick County, Virginia now Hampshire County, West Virginia was his wife in his 1755 will. It is quite possible Elizabeth was a second wife and a first wife may have been Jane CHELDON. No confirming information has been found, not even the name Cheldon, but many Sheldon's are found. Montana Samuel FALLIS supplied Jane CHELDON's name. Johanna FALLIS believes Montana, an architect in Denver, Colorado in the late 1800's, was very detailed and would not make mistakes as described in my FOLLIS Information page.
The SHELDON Family Association had no information on anyone named CHELDON several years ago when I met their secretary who lives here in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Their web site lists over 70,000 names and they still have no information. Most Ancestry.com searches find Elizabeth Jane CHELDON as the wife of Thomas Richard FALLIS. William Stuart FALLIS in his Partial Record of the FALLIS Family Record in America, essentially our Fallis bible, pointed out Richard was a mistake, but it continues to be repeated decades later, which shows why you should document your sources and not repeat information without valid sources.
Thomas' parents and arrival to North America so far is undocumented although some give a date of 1698 for the immigrant FALLIS.
Follis DNA Testing
I had my yDNA tested in 2009 and match with a Follis in Dublin, Ireland whose ancestry is also Scots-Irish which supports our Scots-Irish Follis family tradition. So I request any FOLLIS' to please have a male in you Follis line test their DNA and see where you match with the 4 Follis lines found so far. My Scots-Irish line, an Anglo-Norman line, an Italian line, and unassigned Follis line. At this point in time female mtDNA only verifies a match within the last 10 generations, but new research is encouraging for making closer better matches in the near future.
Some of my other FOLLIS pages:
- First cousin once removed deployed in Kuwait search for Kevin FOLLIS is here
- A second cousin once removed is Richard BUSCH Chiropractic
- Cousin Thomas FOLLIS membership chair Panhandle Chapter ASSE.