Grandpa Jesse and Grandma Pearl's Farmstead at West Branch, Michigan

While we didn't find either Catharine or Captain John in Bates' History, we did find a sketch of a DENNIS FOX whose grandparents were PETER AND MARY (THOMAS) FOX.  That entry (page 815) tells us that Peter and Mary came to Greene County from New Jersey!  And they settled on the farm where Dennis was living in 1888 at the time Bates published his book.

It was on this farm that "Here Peter Fox planted a little willow spout which he brought with him, and the tree is now twenty-one feet in circumference, by actual measurement.  This tree is to remain standing, as Dennis says, a monument to the memory of him who planted it so many years ago" (Bates, 815).

That is the tradition story that so much impressed us when we first began our family tree research and realized why our Grandma Pearl Fox had planted a sprig of willow when she married Jesse Bohlinger and moved to a farm in West Branch, Michigan. 

Grandma Pearl's Willow in West Branch, Michigan

Grandma Pearl Fox Bohlinger in West Branch, Michigan

Grandma Pearl, the daughter of Elias and Ida Mae (Delaney) Fox, granddaughter of Henry and Clarissa (Long) Fox, great-granddaughter of Capt. John and Catharine Fox, and so a great-great granddaughter of Peter and Mary (Thomas) Fox.  She must have brought that family tradition with her when she pioneered up to Michigan and raised Sherry Candy Lane in West Branch.

Pearl didn't have children with Jesse Bohlinger. She'd had two children with Glenn Wilson when she lived in West Virginia after she'd grown up with Mammy and Pappy Fox (Ida Mae nee Delaney and Elias Fox the son of Henry and Clarissa Fox).



























Henry and Clarissa (nee Long) Fox grew up in Pennsylvania.