from
Rittenhouse Road
by Marfy Goodspeed
August 8, 2015

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Jacob Fauss

According to his 1888 obituary, Jacob Fauss had lived at his home near
Sandy Ridge for fifty years. So he must have bought the property in the
mid-1830s. But he would have been too young then, since he was born on
June 19, 1813. I suspect the farm had belonged to his father John Fauss,
who purchased a lot of 50 acres in 1814 that bordered property owners in
the Sandy Ridge vicinity.

Jacob Fauss married Elizabeth Wolverton (1817-1892), daughter of Richard
Wolverton and Sarah Case, on October 13, 1837. He was listed as a householder
in the 1840 census for Delaware Township, and in 1850 he was a 36-year-old
farmer. He and wife Elizabeth had four daughters at that time.

I do not know if there is anything more to be said of him other than that
he farmed all his life and died where he lived, age 74, on March 17, 1888.

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