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Earl Maurice Fox

Earl Maurice Fox[1]

Male 1891 - about 1971  (79 years)

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  • Name Earl Maurice Fox  [2, 3, 4
    Born 7 May 1891  Babcock’s Mill, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    • erroneously 1892 According to Alice in 1968 recording
    Gender Male 
    Occupation Oil producer; self  [3, 6
    Residence 1 Euclid Avenue, Bradford, Pa. (1930); 1942: Derrick City Rd, Foster Twp, PA, d. at 149 Derrick Rd., Bradford, PA  [3, 6, 7
    Died about 2 April 1971  Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Person ID I70888  Clan Moffat Genealogy
    Last Modified 11 March 2007 

    Father Harry Francis Fox,   b. 15 April 1849, Lydlinch, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 March 1932, Fort Lauderdale, Broward Co., Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Mother Jane Anne Tait,   b. 17 February 1857, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 September 1899, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years) 
    Married 10 July 1877  possibly, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    • Donahoo says July 7
    Family ID F49458  Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family/Spouse Hazel Gillespie,   b. 3 May 1892, Punxsutawney, Jefferson Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. about 23 September 1981, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years) 
    Married 11 March 1912  [10
    Notes 
    • Had seven children: six boys and one girl.
    Children 
    +1. Robert Maurice Fox,   b. 21 April 1913, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 June 1997, Wauchula, Hardee Co., Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
    +2. Richard E Fox,   b. 11 March 1915, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. September 1980, Titusville, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
    +3. Donald Edward Fox,   b. 12 May 1918, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 July 1966, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years)
    +4. William D Fox,   b. 22 July 1921, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 June 1996, Shawnee Mission, Johnson Co., Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)
    +5. Living
    +6. Living
    +7. Living
    Family ID F49474  Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
      Name: Earl Maurice Fox
      City: Babcock Mills
      County: McKean
      State: Pennsylvania
      Birthplace: Pennsylvania;United States of America
      Birth Date: 07 May 1891
      Race: White
      Roll: 1894016
      DraftBoard: 1
      Age: 26
      Address: RFD 2 [?], Bradford, Penna
      Occupation: Oil Producer, for self
      Dependents: wife and children
      Exemption claimed: physically unfit
      5’ 10 1/2” Slender, Brown eyes, brown hair, not bald
      Physical didabilities: [?] operation for Prolapse [?]
      Registered by NH Huston, Foster Twp, McKean Co, PA, June 5, 1917

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      Information provided by Agnes Margaret Colegrove Fraser in 1989.
      Parents Harry Francis Fox (rin 26) and Jane Ann Tait (rin 25). Born about 1892 probably in Bradford, PA.

      Married Hazel
      Ch. Morris, Richard, William, Janet (only girl and three other boys.)
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      [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 6, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Dec 7, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.111.6.83001.187]

      Individual: Fox, Earl
      Social Security #: 197-26-9531
      Issued in: Pennsylvania

      Birth date: May 7, 1891
      Death date: Apr 1971


      Residence code: Pennsylvania

      ZIP Code of last known residence: 16701
      Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

      Bradford, Pennsylvania

      There is an obit listing on the web for him dated April 3, 1971 giving his address as 149 Derrick Rd. -AF

      Suzanne - Fox says they had a cottage on Lake Erie, where family gatherings were held.

      In 1910, according to the federal census, they were living at 102 West Corydon Street in Bradford.

      1930 United States Federal Census
      Name: M Earl Fox [Earl M Fox]
      Age: 38
      Estimated birth year: abt 1892
      Birthplace: Pennsylvania
      Relation to head-of-house: Head
      Spouse's Name: Hazel Fox
      Race: White
      Home in 1930: Bradford, Mckean, Pennsylvania
      On April 10, 1930 Earl M Fox (38, oil producer on an oil lease) b. in PA of an English father and a Scottish mother was living in a house (with a radio) he owned worth $7000 on 1 Euclid Avenue in Bradford, McKean Co, PA. He was married at age 20 to Hazel Fox (37, none) b. in PA of PA parents who was married at age 19. Children, all b. in PA, were Maurice R Fox (17, none) Richard E Fox (14, none), Donald D. Fox (11, none), William D Fox (8, none) Dale F Fox (4, none), and Thomas H Fox (2, none). Note that the convention used by this census taker was to reverse the first names and middle initials, and this has been corrected here., , [2, 4, 11]

  • Sources 
    1. [S1398] GEDCOM file from file “AdamMoffatDesends”, submitted by Alaric Faulkner.

    2. [S1330] US Federal Census, 1930: Bradford, Mckean, PA.

    3. [S1338] WWII Draft Registration “Old Man’s Draft” 1942, (Ancestry.com).

    4. [S1345] McKean Co, PA, June 5, 1917.

    5. [S1347] Alice Fox Appleton Interview.

    6. [S1330] US Federal Census, 1930.

    7. [S1331] Social Security Death Index.

    8. [S1337] Bradford Era [Newspaper] Obituaries 1935-1995.

    9. [S1363] Donahoo, George P., (Lewis Historical Publishing Co, New York & Chicago, 1926).

    10. [S1350] Family Trees search, Ancestry.com, Michelle Robinson.

    11. [S1330] US Federal Census, 1910, Bradford, PA.



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