[ Home Page | First Page | Previous Page | Next Page | Last Page ]

The Descendants of Obadiah Fults as compiled by Donna Marsh

Generation No. 1

1. OBADIAH³ FULTS (ADAM² FULKS, MATTHEW¹ FULK) was born Abt 1760 in Russell Co, VA, and died Abt 1844 in Buffalo Creek, Carter Co, KY. He married MARTHA BLANKENSHIP 16 October 1787 in Bedford Co, VA, daughter of Joseph Blankenship and Phoebe Summerfield.

Notes
(Received from Roxanne Davis)

The biography of Waldo Fantley Fultz says his great grandfather, "Obadiah Fultz, was an Alsation born 1728. He came to America in 1775 and proved his loyalty to the country of his adoption by gallant service in the Continental Army. After the Revolutionary War he migrated from Virginia to Kentucky, casting in his lot with the early settlers of Buffalo Creek, and there passed away in 1817."

No record of Revolutionary War service by an Obadiah Fulks has been found in the National Archives. The dates given could indicate that one generation was skipped. The Alsation could have been born 1728, but it was his son, Obadiah, born 1765 according to the 1830 Kentucky census, who married Martha Blankenship, daughter of Joseph, on 16 October 1787, in Bedford County, Virginia. Many of the Fultzes did settle along Buffalo Creek in Carter Couny, Kentucky, but not as early as 1817.

Several descendants have repeated the story that the Fulkses came from Pennsylvania. The Small Grains by M. C. Carleton says, "In 1862, in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, Abraham Fultz, while passing through a field of Lancaster wheat, which is an awned variety, found three spikes of awnless wheat. He sowed the seed from these spikes the same year and continued sowing a larger amount each year until he obtained sufficient seed to distribute it pretty well over the country." No connection with that Abraham is known but many of the immigrants did land in Pennsylvania and, after a time, came down the Shendoah Valley into Virginia.

Children of Obadiah Fults and Martha Blankenship are:

	i.	Ralph⁴ Fults, m. Mary Clark, 16 July 1807, Tazewell Co, VA.
2.	ii.	Arthur Fults, b. Abt 1788, VA; d. Greenup Co, KY.
	iii.	Priscilla Fults, b. Abt 1792, VA; m. Peter Gollahue, 28 May 1807, Tazewell Co, VA.
3.	iv.	John Fults, b. Abt 1793, Russell Co, VA; d. Aft 1865, Greenup Co, KY.
4.	v.	Joseph Fults, b. Abt 1794, VA.
5.	vi.	Hezekiah Fults, b. Abt 1797, VA; d. 18 December 1851, Greenup Co, KY.
6.	vii.	Robert H Fultz, b. July 1805, Russell Co, VA; d. 20 June 1888, San Diego, CA.
7.	viii.	Martha Fults, b. Abt 1806, Russell Co, VA; d. 1849, Carter Co, KY.
8.	ix.	Elizabeth Fults, b. 1813, Russell Co, VA; d. 21 January 1875, Carter Co, KY.
9.	x.	Wesley Fantley Fultz, b. 15 August 1815, Russell Co, VA; d. 29 June 1887, Wesleyville, Carter Co, KY.

[ Home Page | First Page | Previous Page | Next Page | Last Page ]