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Fruits Saga Continues – William Jason, A Man Of Marriages

By The Paper of Montgomery County | April 6, 2022

Although I’m not 100% sure when the Fruits came here, don’t believe it was via a land grant (although had George decided to get one he may have been able…

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David: #9 as the Fruits Saga Continues

By The Paper of Montgomery County | March 30, 2022

“Parents of at least eleven sons and five daughters” is the description on several family trees in Ancestry, Family Search and Heritage Quest for George and Catherine (Stonebraker) Fruits’ children,…

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Fruits Saga Continues – Catherine #8 Up Today!

By The Paper of Montgomery County | March 23, 2022

Catherine Fruits was born while Alamo George and Catherine (Stonebraker) Fruits were still in Ohio (Butler County according to her death record) but grew-up in the Alamo area with the…

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Fruits Saga – Yep, Another George Or Lucky #7

By The Paper of Montgomery County | March 16, 2022

George, one of the most popular names in the Fruits family brings us the third in a row (George, born 1736 in Germany died Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana in Sept…

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Hear ye, hear ye, Fruits #6

By The Paper of Montgomery County | March 9, 2022

John S. Fruits was John George (Alamo George) and Catherine Stonebraker’s sixth child and is the subject of this week’s article. Born in Butler County, Ohio on 11 March 1818…

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Fruits Saga – Margaret, The Fifth Child

By The Paper of Montgomery County | March 2, 2022

Margaret was one of the hardest of Alamo George Fruits’ kiddos to discover but my genealogy buddy, Kim, pitched in and think we discovered quite a bit, albeit still questions…

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Fruits #4 – Sebastian Fruits & Family left our midst – wonder what would have been in his life had he stayed here?

By The Paper of Montgomery County | February 23, 2022

Finding Fruits in MoCo is fairly easy – they are Fruits, as in people with a capital F indicating that important fact, but in Page County, Iowa, if you search…

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Meet George’s Child # 3 – Susan

By The Paper of Montgomery County | February 16, 2022

As we continue our series on Alamo George Fruits (one of our many Revolutionary Soldiers as well as fighting in the War of 1812) we come to child number three,…

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Where Oh Where Can Elizabeth Be?

By The Paper of Montgomery County | February 9, 2022

Well, I hate to admit this – I failed. I have lots of those situations, but it is extremely rare in the genealogical world. However, I’m with many others as…

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Ya’ll Know ‘Ol George – Now, Read About His Kids #1 Right Here

By The Paper of Montgomery County | February 2, 2022
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Can’t imagine there would be even one person reading this who has not heard of one of our most famed Revolutionary War soldiers, George (often called George Jr or Alamo…

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