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Subject: Re: Fox & Wood of WV
Date: 3 Apr 2005 14:12:35 -0600

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Ms. Fox-Shuff,

I, too, have had enough of the erroneous information being plastered all of the net. I have spent countless dollars and hours researching this Fox line, which too, is my direct line. If people would search just a bit more they would find that in the 1880 census of Fayette County, WV, Mary Fox appears to be AT LEAST 14 years younger than this Maria Grass only 6 days later. (Clark County, Indiana census taken June 21, 1880, Fayette County census taken June 15, 1880)

What I find interesting is how is that Mary Fox could be in two households within days of each other and WHY would she say that she is single in Fayette County and be married in Clark County, ILL with child -- the eldest child just 9 years her junior? (1880 Anderson Township, Clark County, IL, Roll 79_181, film 1254181, pg. 7B vs. 1880 Mountain Cove district, Fayette County, WV, Roll T9_1402, film 1255402, page 108 A).

I believe that this Maria Grass to be Mary Kennick whom James W. Grass married on July 12, 1867 in Vigo County, Indiana.

I personally would like to see documentation that says James W. Grass was ever in West Virginia, not to mention in Fayette County! What people fail to realize is that Fayette County has some of the best documentation. It is thought that because there several major battles fought here during the Civil War and the court house burnt, that records must have been lost. Well, guess what folks? We had people smart enough to get the records out of the court house and therefore, they are intact.

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