Levi Fouts

Levi Fouts, born in Wayne county, Ind., June 2,1827, is the son of Jacob and Eleanor (Dougan) Fouts, both natives of North Carolina and of German descent. In 1831 the family moved to Fulton county, Ill., near Canton, where Jacob died October 9, 1874, after forty-three years of agricultural life in that county. His wife died November 17,1858. Of their eleven children seven are living: Jacob, a widower; Salem, at the head of a family, both residing in Kansas, near Ottawa; Elizabeth, in Fulton county, near Canton; Levi and Lewis in this county, near Bradford; Francis, near Sedan, Kan., and Malcom, near Canton, Ill., on the old home place. Levi Fouts married, in 1851, Miss Nancy, daughter of Elijah and Barbara (McKinney) Bocock, of Virginia and Pennsylvania, respectively. To them six children were born, namely: Barbara Eleanor, wife of Simeon Bell; residing near Keota, Iowa; Alice Jane, wife of John S. Hoof, near Viola, Ill.; Jacob C, married Margaret Ann Eagelston, residing near Camp Grove; Hannah Maria, wife of John Mahler, near Camp Grove; Elijah A. and Cyrus E. are at home. In 1854 Mr. Fouts sold his eighty-acre farm in Fulton county and coming here purchased 160 acres on section 13, to which he has added 220 acres. For thirty-three years he has been engaged in agriculture and stock-growing here with marked success. In political life he was a Republican, but has changed to an earnest Greenbacker. In church affairs he is undenominational but a supporter of all Christian societies.