CHRISTOPHER FUCHS (FOLKS), (FOX)

Christopher Fox (the name changed from Fuchs to Fox) was the only child of Georg Jakob Fuchs and Regina Katarina Hauser. He was born on April 2, 1827, in the state of Kleingartach - Wurtenburg - Germany. He left Germany, arriving in the United States on December 22, 1852. He died in Greenfield, Ohio in 1911.

He came to Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio, October 12, 1855. He married January 9, 1856, to Katherine Ohmberger by the Reverend G. Bolinger. He became a citizen of the Unites States at Greenfield, where he and his wife resided for the remainder of their lives and where all of their children were born, reared and educatedin the public schools.

Most of their married life they they spent at 111 Mirabeau Street, corner of First St., which property they purchased, later remodeling and where most of their 11 children were born.

Mr. and Mrs Fox were people of the pioneer type, upright, industrious, sociable and neighborly, of Protestant faith, attending church regularly, respecting Sunday as a Holy Day, and living a Christian life every day of the year.

Always, morning, night and before all meals offering prayer. Mr. Fox followed the occupation of landscaping and nurseryman, and they were more interested in living as they lived life than the accumulation of wealth. The home and the rearing of their large family being their main interest.

Living near the edge of Greenfield, then a village, and having a large lot they kept a cow, pigs, and always a large garden, and abundance of flowers and shrubbery, with trees surrounding on the roasdside, mad the home very attractive.

Katherine Ohmberger Fox was born in Germany in 1830 and died in Greenfield, Ohio in 1909.

[MINNIE LEOTA MUSSMAN BRUMBACK]

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