1. Frederick Foltz b. abt 1825, Germany, (son of father of Frederick Foltz and mother of Frederick Foltz) m. bef 1847, Rosanna Goodecoontz, b. abt 1827, Germany, (daughter of father of Rosanna Goodecoontz and wife). came to US from a town three miles from Stuttgardt, Wurtemberg, Germany in 1852 and located first in New York State then moved to Lancaster Co, PA where he was living when his wife joined him in 1854. They then moved to Cogan Station in Lycoming Co, PA Rosanna had four brothers and a sister who came to America before she arrived in 1854 (see Goodecoontz at bottom)
Children: 2. i Frederick Foltz b. 7 Mar 1847. 3. ii Christine Foltz. iii Annie Foltz m. Hall. no children 4. iv David Foltz. 5. v Rachel Foltz. Second Generation 2. Frederick Foltz b. 7 Mar 1847, m. 7 Aug 1873, [1] Caroline Waltz, b. 15 Jan 1850, (daughter of William Waltz and Mary Hurr) d. 19 Oct 1905. Frederick died 23 Feb 1929.
Frederick Foltz had come to Lancaster Co, PA in 1852 from a small town west of Stuttgardt, Wurtemburg, Germany, when he was five yrs old and then moved with his family to Lycoming Co, PA on the west branch of the Susquehananh River in 1857 and settled at Cogan Station, PA where he grew up. Sometime after their son William was born in April 1878, Frederick and Carolyn (Waltz) Foltz moved westward settling in Nebraska where he was a farmer. A few years after the establishment of Oklahoma Territory in 1880, Fredrick and his five children moved to the capital town of Guthrie, Oklahoma in 1883, some six years before the "Boomer" rush of April 22, 1889 and ten years before the famed "Cherokee Run" of Sept 16, 1893. It's not known at this time whether Frederick and Carolyn lived out their lives in Guthrie where son Charley worked in the Post Office or whether they moved to Tulsa where William was apparently living before he moved to Muskogee in 1905.
Children: i Harry Albert Foltz b. 26 Jul 1874, d. 28 Jun 1947. farmer in Butler, Oklahoma ii Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Foltz b. 8 Mar 1876, d. 30 May 1894. 6. iii William Edwin Foltz b. 13 Apr 1878. 7. iv Charles "Charley" Franklin Foltz b. 19 Feb 1880. v Flora Ardelle Foltz b. 28 Jul 1883, d. 20 May 1920. 3. Christine Foltz m. John Ulmer, d. bef 1925. living at Cogan Station, PA in 1925
Children: i Annie Ulmer m. Colin Richmond. School teacher. was living at Quakertown, PA in 1925. no children 8. ii Mary Elizabeth Ulmer. 9. iii David Ulmer. 10. iv Margaret Ulmer. v James Ulmer. bookkeeper working in New York living at 67 N. 11th St., Newark, NJ in 1925. no children 11. vi Clyde Ulmer. vii Ella Ulmer m. Moyer. Ella died bef 1925. no children 4. David Foltz m. Lou. lived at Williamsport, PA in 1925 {photo of David}
Children: 12. i Elmer J. Foltz. 13. ii Carrie Foltz. iii Emmerson Foltz d. bef 1925. no children 5. Rachel Foltz m. (1) Marshall, m. (2) Mackey, m. (3) Ringler. lived on Race St, Newberry, Williamsport, PA in 1925 {photo of Rachel}
Children by Mackey: i William Marshall Mackey. silk mill worker who was living on Race St., Newberry, Williamsport, PA in 1925 Third Generation 6. William Edwin Foltz b. 13 Apr 1878, Williamsport, PA, m. 19 Jun 1918, Mabel Melrose McNees, b. 19 Dec 1881, Richland Center, WI, (daughter of James Harvey McNees and Margaret Jane Moody) d. Jan 1950, Muskogee, OK. William died 1949, Muskogee, OK.
William E. Foltz moved from his birthplace of Williamsport, PA when less than five to Nebraska where his father likely farmed. With the opening of Oklahoma Territory, the family moved to Guthrie when William was five. By the time he was 27 he was living in Tulsa, and, then, in 1905 (probably after his mother's death that year) moved to Muskogee where he worked in a store owned by Fred Turner. He decided he wanted to become a lawyer and, through self study, was able to pass the bar in 1910 (the same year the official capital of Oklahoma was moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City.) Oklahoma, which entered the Union as the 46th state in 1907, apparently appealed to him, and he took a job with the U.S. Indian Service for which he continued to work for the next 36 years, out of a base in Muskogee, serving for the most part as probate attorney of the "Five Civilized Tribes." He retired in April 1947. About the time he married Mabel in 1918 he bought a farm near Ft. Gibson where he established a grove of paper-shell pecans and raised other crops. William and Mabel were members of the Ft. Gibson Baptist Church. They had one daughter, born in 1919.
Mabel McNees Foltz taught school and served as a principal of Wheelock Academy Indian School where she met W.E.Foltz one day when he happened to stop by for a visit as part of his work with the Indians. She was very interested in genealogy and did much to collect and preserve the family records. She typed some detailed notes on the Foltz and Waltz families in about 1925, and corresponded with Miss Van Deventer regarding the Mathes & McNees families.
7. Charles "Charley" Franklin Foltz b. 19 Feb 1880, m. 20 Feb 1915, Amanda E. Severin, b. 24 Sep 1890. Charles died aft 1949,2 buried: Guthrie, OK. Postal Clerk, Guthrie, Oklahoma 8. Mary Elizabeth Ulmer m. Pierce Stabler. Pierce: farmer at Larrys Creek, Lycoming Co, PA in 1925 9. David Ulmer m. wife. farmer in Linden, PA in 1925 10. Margaret Ulmer m. J. L. Lovell. was living at Linden, PA in 1925 11. Clyde Ulmer m. wife. farmer on old home place in Cogan Station, PA in 1925 12. Elmer J. Foltz m. wife. Hardware truck driver living at Williamsport, PA on 414 Rose St. 13. Carrie Foltz m. S. H. Frick. lived at 1122 Dewey Ave, Williamsport, PA Route 2 in 1925
Some Footnotes: indicated by [ ] 1 Waltz, A. Pierce; Genealogy of William Waltz, son of John George Waltz, pioneer of 1804 This record likely a transcript from Bible records details the births, deaths and marriages of many of the Waltz families noted here. 2 the last handwritten entry in the A.Pierce Waltz Genealogy (prob written by Wm Foltz) was 1949.
1. Goodecoontz m. wife likely lived near Stuttgardt, Germany.
Children: 2. i Martin Goodecoontz ii John Goodecoontz iii William Goodecoontz killed when fell off tree no children 3. iv Godfrey Goodecoontz 4. v Agnes Goodecoontz 5. vi Rosanna Goodecoontz Second Generation 2. Martin Goodecoontz m. wife lived in Allentown, PA
Children: i Christine Goodecoontz ii-vi about six other children 3. Godfrey Goodecoontz m. wife; lived in Philadelphia, PA
Children: i-vi six or more children 4. Agnes Goodecoontz m. Hauer (or Hower) lived in Allentown, PA 5. Rosanna Goodecoontz, b.abt 1827 m. bef 1847 in Germany, Frederick Foltz (see Foltz family above)