Abraham
Fox
Born in Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of Abraham Fox III
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
Lydia (Fox) Goodell [half], Abraham Fox [half], Elizabeth Fox, Joel Fox [half], Joseph Kneeland Fox [half] and Anson Carnarius Fox [half]
Husband of
Elizabeth Goodman
— married
27 Aug 1800 in Smyth, Virginia, USA
Descendants 
Father of
Jacob Fox and Nancy (Fox) Sanders
Died
at about age 91
in McMinn, Tennessee, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Jul 2013
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Biography
Sources
- Marriage Record
Name: Abraham Fox Gender: Male Spouse Name: Elizabeth Goodman Spouse Gender: Female Marriage Date: 27 Aug 1832 County: Smyth State: Virginia Source Information Dodd, Jordan R., et al.. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers.
Acknowledgments
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~Abraham Fox, Sr.,~
b. abt. 1775 possibly Virginia or North Carolina,
d. bet. 1836 - 1866 possibly McMinn Co., Tennessee
Committee Members
Chairperson: Shelley Broyles, Muxman1@aol.com Connie Baumann, LITTLETN@aol.com Lorene Clubb, Viv Clubb@aol.com Ivalon Fox, Ivalonf@aol.com Frank LaVor Fox foxden@zekes.com Darla Hilliard, DHilli6824@aol.com Thuresa Ingram , Takalot@aol.com Terry Latey, TGLatey@aol.com Darlene Tracy, DTracy1124@aol.com
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~foxcomancestor/com_abraham_fox_sr.html
Added by Suzan Webb What We Know About The Family Of Abraham Fox:
The earliest evidence we have, on whom we believe to be our Abraham FOX, is in the Early Kentucky Household Index records where we find him listed 29 May 1799 and 7 July 1800. He was shown again on the Tax List in Lincoln Co., KY dated 22 August 1800. Lincoln County later became Green County and then Adair Co. by 1802. In the years 1803-1807 Abraham is listed on the Adair Co., KY Tax Lists. Living near by in these records is a John FOX. The relationship between these two men is unknown until in 1808 the Tax records list that John as caring for the land of Abraham, so we know that there is probably a Father/Son relationship there. Two years later in the 1810 Adair Co., KY Census Abram is shown as head of the household with one male 10-15, one male 20-30 years old, and no females being listed. In the 1820 Adair Co., KY Census there are two Abrams and a Jacob FOX listed. One of the Abrams is listed as: 3 males under 10, 1 male 10-16, 1 male 16-18, 1 male 45, 2 females under 5, 1 female 10-16, and 1 female 26-45 years old. The other Abram household was listed as: 1 male 26-45, 2 males 45 and over, and one female 45 and over.
On 9 March 1822 Jacob FOX, the son of Abraham FOX, Sr., married Ann SANDERS in Adair Co., KY. Somewhere between that time and June of 1824 this family moved to McMinn Co., TN where their son David FOX was born. We assume that Abraham moved his family to McMinn Co., TN at this time also as the last record that can be found on Abraham FOX in Adair Co., KY is a land record dated 12 April 1821. We find Abraham again in the 1830 McMinn Co., TN Census and also in the McMinn Co., 1836 Tax Lists. We believe that he had some land in Monroe Co., TN as well as McMinn Co., TN, as there is a court record there on Abraham Fox, Sr., 24 May 1869 where title of land was divested out to his heirs. We know that Abraham died between 1836 and 1850 as we can find no more records of him until the 1850 McMinn Co., TN Census where only his wife Elizabeth is listed in the Census.
When and where Abraham was exactly born or died is still a mystery. There are still lots of trails to be tracked in our Fox hunt!
Shelley Broyles, Abraham Fox Sr., Committee Chairman
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abraham by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Abraham:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abraham by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Abraham:
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~1.56%
Jerry Barksdale
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jerrybarksdale
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~0.78%
Kathryn (Goodwin) Martin, :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A881431 [compare], Ancestry member k8eisgr8
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~0.39%
Destiny Moffett :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Rachel Martin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A960137 [compare], Ancestry member jitterbuginatree
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Rejected matches › Abraham Fox (1774-)
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10th District of Smyth County, Virginia 1850, page 160-61, Household # 62
Abram Fox 39 Farmer Real Estate = $1320. Born in Virginia Elizabeth (Goodman) 47 ditto Rachel 17 ditto John 15 ditto Ann 14 ditto Margaret Ann 10 ditto (Margaret Ann Fox later married William Jasper Houston and died circa 1859. Place of burial unknown)
10TH Subdivision of Claiborne County, Tennessee 1860, page 200, household #1282
Abraham Fox(e) 49 Farmer Real Estate = $3000. Born in Virginia Elizabeth (Goodman) 55 ditto Elizabeth Painter 6 ditto Margaret A.H. (Ann Houston) 2 ditto Jane Buchanan 29 ditto (Page 200, Household # 1282. There is a James (27) and Rebecca (23) Painter with kids, household # 1276) (The Margaret Ann Houston listed here is the daughter of William Jasper Houston. Her mother died ca. 1859, he died in 1863)
Note: Elizabeth Painter may be Nancy Elizabeth Painter Cole who is listed on Findagrave, being born on 22 November 1854 and died on 6 August 1878 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She is listed as the wife of Josiah Cole (17 December 1844-19 August 1928) who served as a private, Battery C, 1st Tennessee Light Artillery. They both are buried at the Davis-Cole Cemetery at Sandlick, Claiborne County, Tennessee.
Note: I contacted Dianne Major at Findagrave on 3 January 2022. She states that Nancy Elizabeth Painter Cole is her 2nd great grandmother.
11th Civil District of Claiborne County, Tennessee 1870, page 3, household #17-Lone Mountain District
Abraham Fox 58 Farmer Real Estate = $1800 Born in Virginia Elizabeth 67 Keeping House ditto Elizabeth Painter 17 Born in Tennessee Margaret Houston 11 Born in Tennessee (Margaret Houston is their granddaughter, daughter of William Jasper Houston and Margaret Ann Fox, who died)
The 1880 Claiborne County census, Lone Mountain District 11, page 217B, entry #1088, dwelling 201/212 lists Abraham Fox 66 (b. VA-PA-VA) Susan M. Fox 39 (b. VA-MD-VA) Matilda E. Fox 7 (daughter-b. TN-VA-VA) Martha McCauly 19 (step-daughter b. KY-VA-VA) and David C. McCauly 14 (step-son b. KY-VA-VA) There is a marriage between Abraham Fox and Mary McCawley on 22 February 1871 in Claiborne County, page 80-81, which may be McCauly (License issued 3 Feb. 1871) In 1900 there is a Susan Fox (b. January 1840 VA-VA-VA, age 60, widowed-step-mother) living with John & Mary Hayes (both 40) and John O. McBee (13) stepson. Susan had two children who were alive at the time the census was taken.
Claiborne County Deeds-1865-1877, page 303-304 This indenture made this the Eleventh day of January one thousand Eight hundred and seventy two by and between Abraham Fox of the County of Claiborne and State of Tennessee of the one part and William K. Rector of the Count and state aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Abraham Fox for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and five dollars to him in hand paid in receipt of whereof is hereby acknowledged hath and by these presence doth grant, bargain, sell, and convey and confirm unto the said William K. Rector his heirs and assigns forever a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Claiborne and state of Tennessee and District Number Eleven containing fifteen acres, be the same more or less bounded as follows: Beginning of a post oak thence South fourteen degrees East one hundred and twenty six poles to a stake in the Tazewell Road thence North Seventy Eight and a half East with said Road forty poles to a stake in said Road and in the old Hodges line now Smith Seals line thence North nine West with said line to two black jacks said Rector corner, thence North fifty four West, twenty eight poles to a hickory in the hollow, thence with the hollow as it meanders to the Beginning, with all and Singular the woods, waters, minerals, rents, and profits and whatsoever belongs or appertaines to said land Will warrant and forever defend unto the said William K. Rector his heirs and assigns forever against lawful claim of every person or persons whatever, Either in law or Equity in witness whence of I have hereto set my hand and seal the day and date above (Findagrave lists a William K. Rector, born 17 September 1823, died 15 June 1905-Scott Cemetery)
Written, Signed, Sealed and delivered in presents of us Abraham Fox (Seal) J.G. DunbeR (?) J.F. Longmir
This Deed was filed in my office on the 7th day of January 1873 at 3 o’clock P.M. and was registered on the 9th of the same month A.C. Hayes-Register
Claiborne County Deed Index 1801-1865 (Treadway) Abraham Fox (Grantee) and Samuel Moore (Grantor) 1830, Book U, page 422, for $1,000. Abraham Fox (Grantee) and W.W. Hollingworth (Grantor) 1855, Book X, page 88, for $136. A. Fox (Grantee) and W.W. Hollingworth (Grantor) 1856, Book X, pate 454, for $360 (Hollingworth in District 11 in 1839)