An American Family History

Captain David Fox was born July 7, 1764 in Loudoun County, Virginia. His parents were Absalom Fox and Christian Bonham.

He married Sarah Sutton on February 15, 1787 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Sarah was born on September 12, 1767 near Fort Cumberland, Frederick County, Maryland and was the daughter of the Reverend Abraham Sutton and Mary Chenowith. Anchor and David Fox married siblings David and Sarah Sutton.

David and Sarah's children included:
Absalom Fox (1787, married Sarah Jane McFarland),
Mary Fox (1789, married Joseph McKinney),
Charles Fox (1791, married Rachel Morton),
Christian Fox (1793, married Henry Bonnell),
Sarah Fox (1796, married Isaac Stelle),
Anna Fox (1799, married Eden Edwards),
David Fox (1801, married Mary Cammel),
Joanna Fox (1806, married William Piper),
Anchor Fox (1806, married David McCarty),
William Fox (1808, married Margaret Hack),
Amos Fox (1809), and
Morris Fox (1812, married Hannah Hawthorn).

The family appeared in the 1790 census of Washington County, Pennsylvania. The household consisted of two females and two males.

In 1796 Captain David Fox appeared on the return of the first First Regiment, 4st Company of the Washington County brigade. The return recorded the election of militia officers whose commissions were signed by the governor.

In 1797 David Fox received 228 acres and 71 perches on Ten Mile Creek near Philip Friend, James Graham, Henry Shidler, Henry Hask, Tobias Friend and his own land.

They moved to Ohio where they settled on a farm west of Deerfield, Ohio about 1797 or 1798. David and Absalom built a grist-mill on Turtle creek and operated a copper still.

David appeared in the 1810 tax list of Warren County, Ohio in Deerfield. He built a brick house in 1811. (Warren County Local History by Dallas Bogan)

In the first issue of The Farmer printed in December, 1816, some of the businessmen in Lebanon were listed. David Fox was listed as having a mill on the Little Miami.

According to the History of Warren County, Ohio, Fellowship Christian Church in Union Township

was built about 1828. Among the early members were Ann Spencer, Rebecca Sargeant, Sarah Fox, wife of David Fox, Andrew and Catherine Lytle, William and Mary Bonnell, John and Mary Ann Covert. The churchyard is a burying-ground, the first interments being made in it about the time of the erection of the church.

The Fellowship Christian Church and Cemetery was on David and Sarah's land.

David died on January 23, 1847 in South Lebanon, Union Township, Warren County, Ohio.

In 1849 Ann and Eden Edwards and his parents all died of cholera.

Sarah died on June 7, 1850. They are buried together in the Fellowship Cemetery in Lebanon, Ohio.