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Fyock
"Jacob George Fyock Family, 1741-1985." Children and Descendants of Jacob George and Barbara (Blaterah) Fyock of Somerset and Bedford Counties Pennsylvania, 1741-1985. Compiled by D. Frank Bayer (1917-1989), 1986. 14pp. Index
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Jacob Fyock immigrated Ship Sarah 20 September 1764, (Oath of Fidelity 13 October 1764)*,and on 06 October 1767 on ship Hamilton. Received 70 acres 15 April 1773 in Antrim Twp, Cumberland County, PA. Participated in Am Rev, enlistment 16 April 1776, muster roll of Capt. Andrew Long's Company of 1st Battalion rifle Reg. 12 August 1777, Jacob sells land in Antrim twp, and appears in Franklin County. 1790 Fed Census Bedford County, PA, Jacob, 2 males +16 (Jacob, John), 3 males under 16 (David, ?, ?), 4 females (Barbara, Catherine, Elizabeth, Susanna). 1796 Brothers Valley Twp, Somerset County, and 1797 Quemahong twp, Somerset County, tax lists. 1800 Fed Census Quehamoning Twp, Somerset County, PA: male 16-25 (Daniel), male 45 and over (Jacob) 27 March 1803 Jacob purchases 150 acres, both sides on stony creek.(later under Jenner twp). 1810 Fed Census Quemahoning twp, Somerset County, PA: male 45+ (Jacob), female 16-25 (Susanna ?). 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*.
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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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