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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Had 4-5 ideas for the next few articles so it was kind of difficult to come up with which I desired to do, but this Civil War soldier won-out. Hopefully,…

More than likely told you before some of the ways I choose a subject to concentrate an article on, and today, I got really crazy, just called up a January…