My Fultz Family Tree

by

Donna Lynn McCormick Marsh

Obadiah Fults/z - (ca1760 VA - ca1844 KY)

• Father - Adam Fulks
• Mother -

m. 16 Oct 1787 Bedford Co, VA

Martha Blankenship - (ca 1775 VA - ? KY)

• Father - Joseph Blankenship
• Mother - Phoebe Summerfield

Children

• John (ca 1790 VA - ?) m. Dicy SLOAN
• Priscilla (ca1792 VA - ?) m. Peter GOLLOHEW
• Joseph (ca 1794 VA - ?) m. Elizabeth SMITH
• Hezekiah (ca 1797 VA - 18 Dec 1851) m. Jane ____
• Arthur (ca 1797 VA - ?) m. 1) ____ WALLACE 2) Rachel McLAUGHLIN 3) Rachel PRESLEY
• Elizabeth (ca 1810 VA - 21 Jan 1875 Carter Co, KY) m. Overton BUCKNER
• Robert H. (July 1805/7 VA - 20 Jan 1888 San Diego, CA) m. Elizabeth HOLLAND
• Wesley (15 Aug 1815 VA - 29 Jun 1887) m. Sylvia STAMPER
• Martha (ca1816 - ?) m. Pleasant MULLINS
• Ralph (?) m. Mary CLARK

Notes
(Received from R. Davis)
The biography of Waldo Fantley Fultz says his great grandfather, "Obadiah Fultz, was an Alsation(sic) born 1728. He came to America in 1775 and proved his loyalty to the country of his adoption by gallant service in the Continental Army. After the Revolutionary War he migrated from Virginia to Kentucky, casting in his lot with the early settlers of Buffalo Creek, and there passed away in 1817."

No record of Revolutionary War service by an Obadiah Fulks has been found in the National Archives. The dates given could indicate that one generation was skipped. The Alsatian could have been born 1728, but it was his son, Obadiah, born 1765 according to the 1830 Kentucky census, who married Martha Blankenship, daughter of Joseph, on 16 October 1787, in Bedford County, Virginia. Many of the Fultzes did settle along Buffalo Creek in Carter Couny, Kentucky, but not as early as 1817.

Several descendants have repeated the story that the Fulkses came from Pennsylvania. The Small Grains by M. C. Carleton says, "In 1862, in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, Abraham Fultz, while passing through a field of Lancaster wheat, which is an awned variety, found three spikes of awnless wheat. He sowed the seed from these spikes the same year and continued sowing a larger amount each year until he obtained sufficient seed to distribute it pretty well over the country." No connection with that Abraham is known but many of the immigrants did land in Pennsylvania and, after a time, came down the Shenandoah Valley into Virginia.

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