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From: "Cheryll Reed" <>
Subject: [SNOWHILL] Fyock
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:25:52 -0400

Found the following at http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasomers/paint/fyock.htm

These articles were researched and written by Patricia M. Shaffer for
the Windber-Johnstown Genealogical Society.

John Fyock, the first man to clear land that now constitutes Paint
Township was born in Franklin County on August 23, 1772. He came with
his father, Jacob Fyock, to Bedford County in 1790 at the age of 18.

Jacob Fyock settled on land that later became Paint Township and the
family resided on this homestead where Jacob Fyock, the progenitor of
the Fyock families of Pennsylvania, died in 1818 and was buried on his
homestead near what is today Hollsopple.

Jacob Fyock was born on dec.18, 1741, in Thalesweiler, Germany, and the
church archives there have recorded that Jacob Veiock (now Fyock) was
"ging to Pennsylvanien in Mai 1764." He arrived in Philadelphia on the
ship Sarah on Sept. 20, 1764.

Jacob Fyock settled in Cumberland County in the area that is now
Franklin County and had a tract of land named Fiasone warranted to him
in 1773, near Green Castle in Antrim Township.

The Fyock family was affiliated with the Snow Hill Cloister in
Waynesboro, which is an offspring of the Ephrata Cloister of Lancaster
County. In later years many of the Fyock family members became ministers
of the Bedford County Seventh Day Baptist Church which is a branch of
the Snow Hill Cloister while others became ministers in the old Dunkard
churches.

Jacob Fyock had two sons, John, who remained in Paint Township and
David, who moved to Indiana County. David's family was among the first
families of the Manor Congregation and his offspring became ministers
and followers of the old Dunkard Church.

Jacob Fyock remained his entire life in Paint Township, where he became
one of the largest farmers of the area. He married Susannah Messerbaugh
whose family built the first sawmill near the Windber Community Building
on the Paint Creek before the town existed.

John and Susannah Fyock were the parents of 10 children. The oldest
daughter, Catherine, never married and returned to Bedford County where
she was a member of the Salemsville church and was buried there upon her
death on July 10, 1882.

Peter Fyock, returned to the Ephrata Cloister where he remained his
latter years and lived to the age of 80.

Daniel Fyock, lived in Bedford County, where he was the father of the
Rev. Jeremiah Fyock, who married Sarah Jane Blough, and Henry Fyock, who
was married to Elizabeth Seese of Paint Township. Daniel also had one
daughter, Mary Catherine, who became the wife of Thomas O'Neil. This
family resided near New Enterprise and was members of the Salemsville
German Seventh Day Baptist Church.

Samuel Fyock, married Barbara Holsopple of Paint Township, and the
family resided near the Seanor area of Paint Township until the Civil
War period where he was a justice of the peace in 1869, During the Civil
War he suffered much loss at the hands of the non-unionists. His barn
was burned and his money stolen. He then moved into Bedford County
residing in Woodbury Township since 1865. Samuel's sons, George and
Charles Fyock, moved back into the Windber area during the time of the
coal boom. They were in the construction business and were bricklayers
becoming well-known citizens of the area.

Sally and Mary Fyock were two of the daughters of John Fyock, who are
said to have died while youngsters, and Elizabeth their sister, married
a Growden and died while a young woman living in Bedford County. Frances
married a Shoemaker and little is known about her family.

Barbara Fyock, another daughter of John Fyock, was born in Paint
Township on July 5, 1803. Barbara married John Replogle, who died when
he was only 38 years old.

Barbara later married David Blough, who had been married twice before.
David and Barbara (Fyock) Blough lived in Foustwell. Barbara was the
mother Susan, who married John Lehman; Jacob Replogle, who resided in
Florida; Mary, who married Jacob Spangler; Daniel, who died in the Civil
War; and John Replogle. To her second marriage she had two more
children: Hannah Blough and David D. Blough, who became a well-known
speaker in the area and a historian on the Blough and Fyock families.
David Blough Sr. died in 1872 at the age of 82 and is buried in the old
Foustwell Cemetery. Barbara Blough died at the age of 76. She was buried
in the old Weaver Mennonite Church section of the Richland Cemetery near
her first husband.

In 1884 Jacob Fyock, the only son of John Fyock who remained in the
Somerset-Cambria counties area, was born on Nov.9, 1805. He raised a
family of seven children. This branch of the Fyock family moved into the
Cambria County area near Ragers Corner and the Locust Grove Church of
the Brethren. Jacob Fyock died in 1858 and is buried in that church
cemetery. His wife, Barbara Reighard, lived to the age of 88 and died on
Oct. 13, 1899. She was buried near her mate of years past.

The Rev. Abraham Fyock, the son of Jacob Fyock, was a minister in the
Walnut Grove Church of the Brethren in Johnstown for many years before
moving into the Dunnings Creek, Bedford County, congregation where he
died on Feb. 14, 1919. Jacob, Daniel, and David Fyock, the other sons of
Jacob Fyock, remained in the Locust Grove section and were farmers where
their descendants are still residents.

Barbara Fyock married John Kelper and Agnes Fyock married George Keiper,
second to Mr. Link They were daughters of Jacob Fyock.

Samuel J. Fyock became one of the largest land owners in Paint Township,
owning two large farms that were situated on the Shade Furnace Road, now
Route 160, near the corner of the Hillsborough and Morningland Drive
roads. Here they raised their family of at least five known children
were taken from them during a flu epidemic that raged through the
township. Family legend passes down the story of how the youngsters all
died, one after the other, and were buried in a small gravesite behind
the old homestead. Neighbors in the area, even today, can tell this
story, that was passed down to them from their grandparents . One story
is told that while the Fyock family was burying one of the youngsters
they returned to their home to find another had died.

Through this horrible ordeal one son remained to Samuel J. and Mary
(Lehman) Fyock. John J. Fyock was born in Paint Township on March 1,
1861. On March 8, 1887, he married Ida Elizabeth Dietz, whose parents
lived in the Hillsborough area of Paint Township.

Samuel J. Fyock died from lockjaw on Aug 18, 1893, and he left his two
farms to his son, John J. Fyock. John and Ida Fyock remained on the old
Fyock homestead and became the parents of seven children who were raised
in Paint Township. Mary (Lehman)Fyock, , widow of Samuel J., remarried
Stephen Stutzman and lived in the Westmont section of Johnstown in her
later years but returned to the Fyock homestead after the death of her
second husband. She died on the Fyock farm near Hillsboro on Feb. 26,
1906, and was buried near her husband and children.

John J. Fyock contacted typhoid fever four years after the death of his
father and died on Aug. 18, 1897, leaving a widow with small children,
the youngest was a few months old, while the oldest was 9. He was buried
there on his farm beside his parents and brothers and sisters.

The Fyock farm personal property was placed for auction sale on Sept.
23, 1897. The real estate was kept in the family for some years later
being divided and sold to separate family members and others. Ida Dietz
remarried in 1903 to John Wallace and they had one child. The family
lived in the Holsopple area in later years where she died at the home of
her daughter on Dec. 19, 1949. She was buried in the Berkey Church of
the Brethren cemetery near her old farm and by the church where Rev.
Hiram Mussleman had baptized her in Scalp Level, on Jan. 3, 1883.

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