Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: James S FOCHT
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 12 May 1856 in Windsor Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania b


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Daniel FOCHT Birth: 1818 in Windsor Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1901 in Centre Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania
    • Mother:
  • Hannah STEPP

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Charles F FOCHT
  2. Alice Agnes FOCHT
  3. George W FOCHT
  4. William J FOCHT
  5. J Herbert FOCHT
  6. Edgar B FOCHT
  7. Elda May FOCHT

Bibliography
  1. Montgomery, Morton, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania. Chicago, IL: Beers, 1909. FHL 974.816 D2m. Available at http://archive.org/details/cu31924097286300. Also available at http://www.rootsweb.com/~paberks/books/montgomery/index.html Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443],
place:
[Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443],
parents:
[Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443]
Sources with Information about marriage to Agnes B EPLER
date:
[Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443],
child:
[Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443]
Research Notes:
general superintendent of the Job Wilbur Mining & Milling Co, of Providence, RI [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443]

entered Huntingdon Collegiate Institute, in Huntingdon Co, PA; after three months was licensed to teach by Prof Samuel A Baer [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443]

taught four terms in Greenwich Twp, and three in Windsor [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443]

engaged in a mercantile business at Lenhartsville, for four years [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443]

after giving up teaching, worked at Job Wilbur Mining & Milling Co, superintending their mining in Berks and other counties [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443]

1895: purchased the old Trexler homestead, located at Greenawald, Albany Twp, of 100 acres [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443]

successful farmer, resided near Greenawald Station, Albany Twp, Berks Co [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443]

owned the old Focht homestead in Centre twp, of 106 acres, and an adjacent tract of 54 acres (at one time property of his father) [Ref: Montgomery BerksCoPA p443]



Pedigree of James S FOCHT
                   /-----Johann Georg FOCHT
          /-----George Peter FOCHT
         |         \-----Susanna LOY
 /-----Daniel FOCHT
|         \-----Magdalena HEINLY
James S FOCHT
|         /-----Samuel STEPP
 \-----Hannah STEPP



Descendants of James S FOCHT
1. James S FOCHT m. Agnes B EPLER
m. Agnes B EPLER father: Valentine EPLER mother: Rebecca BECHTEL