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Susan
Fulmer
Taffelmeyers/Tofflemires Here and There, With Associated Families, Peggy (Bone) Colella, 1979.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 263-264:
Andrew Fulmer, collector of the township of Gosfield South, County of Essex, residing at Ruthven, is a thrifty farmer of that locality and a member of a pioneer family.
(I.) Grandfather John Casper Fulmer, an only son of John Fulmer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in Gen. Wayne's army, and participated in the battle of Lundy's Lane. While acting as dispatch carrier, upon one occasion, he walked 104 miles in one day. Upon coming to the County of Essex he first located in Mersea township, Concession 1, and later moved further north, to Concession 3, owning 700 acres at one time. His death occurred in 1840, and he was buried on the farm he owned. He married Margaret A. Fox, a daughter of Philip and Catherine Fox, and the family born to them was as follows: Catherine married John Lebeau, and lived in Mersea; Peggy married James Stewart, and lived in Mersea; Judith married John Earley, of Rockford, Illinois; Elizabeth married Thomas Fox, and lived in Mersea; Susan married John Tofflemire, and lived in Amherstburg; John married Betty Wilkinson, and lived on the homestead; Adam married Barbara Stewart, and lived in Gosfield; George married Eliza Moody, and lived in Colchester; Henry married Rachel Wilkinson, and lived on a portion of the homestead; Polly married Thomas Whittle, and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.
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