Susan Foutz was born 14 February 1823, at Franklin County, Pennsylvania. She was the eldest child of Jacob Foutz, Sr. (1800-1848) and Margaret Mann Foutz (1801-1896).

Jacob Foutz, Sr. 1800-1848

Margaret Mann Foutz 1801-1896

Children of Jacob Foutz and Margaret Mann Foutz

1 Susan Foutz Born: 14 February 1823 at Franklin County, Pennsylvania Married: Captain James Brown on25 Jan 1841 Adams County, Illinois Died: 5 or 18 August 1842 at Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois

2 Pollyanne Foutz Born: 10 Oct 1824 at Thomastown, Franklin, Pennsylvania Child Died: 1831

3 Nancy Ann Foutz Born: 21 May 1826 in Jemper City, Franklin, Pennsylvania Married: (1) John Martin Brown 25/26 January 1841 at Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois; (2) Ephraim Pearson on 5 December 1848 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Died: 8 June 1896 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah

4 Elizabeth Foutz Born: 15 September 1827 at Thomastown, Franklin, Pennsylvania Married: Henson Walker on 10 April 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois Died: 30 January 1910 at Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah

5 Sarah Foutz Born: 10 October 1829 at Richland County, Ohio Child Died: young

6 Catherine Foutz Born: 25 December 1831 at Richland County, Ohio Married: Samuel S. White on 27 September 1849 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Died:

7 Alma Foutz Born: 4 December 1834 at Richland County, Ohio Child Died: October 1838 at Haun's Mill, Caldwell County, Missouri

8 Joseph Lehi Foutz Born: 16 March 1837 at Haun's Mill, Caldwell, Missouri Married: Caroline Amanda Child on 24 February 1857 at Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah Died: 19 March 1907 at Kirtland, San Juan, New Mexico

9 Margaret Foutz Born: 16 October 1839 at Quincy, Adams, Illinois Married:  Henson Walker on 9 November 1857 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Died: 19 January 1890 at Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah

10 Hyrum Foutz Born: 2 December 1842 at Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois Infant Died: infancy

11 Jacob Foutz Jr. Born: 24 August 1844 at Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois Married: Sarah Ann Thorne on 7 January 1866 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah Died: 9 December 1917 at Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah

12 Maranda or Miranda Foutz Born: 7 January 1848 at Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory Married: Thomas Joseph Bacon on 18 March 1866 Died: 18 March 1925

Mobs with blackened faces came on horses and fired with shotguns on the unarmed, unsuspecting people at the mill.  Susan's mother had gone for a bucket of water. Several men rode up and fired at her again and again. She dropped to the ground behind a log as if dead and heard them say as they rode off, "There is one Mormon woman less."  Margaret rushed back to her house, only to flee with the children into the woods. Here forty or fifty women and children huddled together with shawls and blankets through the long, fearful night. Seventeen Latter-day Saints and one friendly non-Mormon were killed.

"Capt. Evans was somewhat excited, and, as he afterwards related, ran all the way to Mud Creek with his gun loaded, not having fired it during the fight." --History of Caldwell County, quoted in the Journal History. 30 October 1838, page 22.

That night, "the groans and shrieks of the wounded made the night hideous and horrible beyond description. The women were sobbing in the greatest anguish of spirit; the children were crying loudly with fear and grief at the loss of fathers and brothers, the dogs howled over their dead masters, and the cattle were terrified with the scent of the blood of the murdered." --Journal History written by Assistant Church Historian Andrew Jenson, 1888 regarding 30 October 1838.

The next morning Susan's mother, Margaret, went back to Haun's Mill looking for her husband Jacob.  She saw only death and destruction until finally Jacob was found alive, covered with rubbish.  He had been shot in the thigh and saved his own life by drawing the bodies of his dead friends over himself pretending to be one of them.  The bullet was not extracted for six long, suffering days.  So intent was the mob on trying to kill her husband that Margaret took Jacob many times into the woods to hide him under brush and leaves.  Once she dressed him in her clothing and he sat by the spinning wheel like an old lady.  Men searched the house while she and Susan and the other children waited in the house in suspense, fearful of discovery.  The mob continued to search for the "Old Preacher".

Margaret felt many times the power of God protecting her from bullets, giving her courage to stand up against hotile men and demand, "That since they had killed and injured the men of the community, the men in the mob could kill and dress a pig for her little ones."  The men trembled before her and did as she told them.

It was in October 1838 that four-year old Alma Foutz, born December 4, 1834, died.  We are not certain under what circumstances came his demise.

Susan's father Jacob Foutz was "The Old Preacher" and the Elder who took the Gospel to James Brown in Adams County, North Carolina and converted him and his brother Daniel Brown and their families. They were baptized and in consequence of it they were shunned and ridiculed by the other settlers in this sparcely inhabited region. Soon after the Brown's moved to Nauvoo.

After being driven from many homes, leaving them for others to live in and benefit from their many labors, Susan, along with her parents and siblings, reached Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois.  Susan was bethrothed to Captain James Brown Jr. and married him on January 25, 1841, the ceremony was performed by Ezekiel Roberts. Susan's sister, Nancy Ann Foutz [later she married Ephraim Pearson and had eight children], married John Martin Brown I the son of Captain James Brown on the same day.

Susan Foutz was stepmother to Brown's nine motherless children, the eldest eighteen and the youngest two years old. Here Susan bore her only child, Alma Brown on July 1842, and both mother and child died and are buried in Nauvoo.

In the Brown Book of Remembrance we are told: "Susan bore him a son, Alma, who died the 18th of August 1842 when he was three weeks old, of croup. His mother died the following August 1843 of consumption."

Children: of Susan Foutz and Captain James Brown:
Alma Brown, born July 1842. He died 18 August 1842 at the age of three weeks.

Haun's Mill, Missouri

Wagons rolling West

Edward Hunter

Edward Hunter and Jacob Foutz Company - 1847

"The Second Hundred departed June 17, 1847 with Edward Hunter as Captain. Included in this company, Jacob Foutz was the Captain of the Second Fifty. They arrived October 1, 1847:
Jacob Foutz -46; Margaret Mann Foutz -45; Nancy Ann Foutz -21; Elizabeth Foutz Hess-20; Catherine Foutz -15; Joseph Lehi Foutz -10 ; Margaret Foutz -7; Jacob Foutz, Jr. -3 " --Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 8. Page 428.

Susan's younger sister, Catherine Foutz [b. c.1831], wrote the following:

"My parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ohio when I was about four years old. The family then moved to Caldwell County, Missouri, and settled within two miles of Haun's Mill.  I well remember the evening of the tragedy there, October 30, 1838. On hearing the firing of guns, mother gathered the children together and started for the woods. We called on a Sister Myers who went with us into the woods.  About forty of us spent the night in the timber, hiding from the mob. Toward morning some of the brethren made a fire, as the weather was chilly,  Soon a messenger arrived, bringing the sad news of the massacre of the brethren. On our way back to our homes, we called at Sister Myers and found her husband mortally wounded. He had crawled on his hands and knees a distance of two and one-half miles.  I went with my mother and family to Haun's Mill and saw the dead and wounded. My father was shot through the thigh, but he finally recovered. Although I was only seven years old, the terrible sight of the dead and wounded made an everlasting impression upon me. The following spring (1839) we moved out of the state of Missouri and settled temporarily in Quincy, Illinois. Thence we moved to Commerce (afterwards Nauvoo). I well recollect the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum. I heard them preach while they were alive and saw them in their coffins after they were dead. In the spring of 1846, we left Nauvoo for the West. I remember that while we crossed the Mississippi River one of the oxen yoked to his mate jumped off the boat and swam close to the boat while crossing the river without pulling his mate into the water. Our family stopped in Garden Grove until the spring of 1847 when we made our way to Winter Quarters and were organized for crossing the plains. We started from the Elkhorn in June 1847 in Bishop Edward Hunter's hundred. My father was captain of fifty. After a long, perilous journey we arrived in Great Salt Lake Valley on October 1, 1847. Here my father died February 14, 1848, leaving my mother with five children to make her living as best as she could. I became acquainted with one of the Mormon Battalion boys by the name of Samuel S. White, in the fall of 1848, and became his wife September 27, 1849. We resided in Salt Lake City until the spring of 1851 when we moved to Pleasant Grove, Utah County, Utah." From L.D.S. Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 2, Jenson, Andrew, 1951. Page 736-737

Sources:

PAF - Archer files = Jacob Foutz Sr. + Margaret Mann > Susan Foutz (second wife of) + Captain James Brown
PAF - Archer files = Captain James Brown + (7) Phoebe Abigail Abbott > Orson Pratt Brown

PAF - Archer files = Captain James Brown + (2) Susan Foutz : sister of Elizabeth Foutz + Jacob Hess are parents of John Wells or William Hess.

Note: Through the Foutz line is a Brown connection to Samuel Comstock Snyder of Park City.

"Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" Page 1002-1003 (Foutz)

"Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah" Page 92, 876

Story about Captain James Brown in the Ogden Standard Examiner, 31 AUG 1970.

L.D.S. Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 2, Jenson, Andrew, 1951. Page 736-737 contributed by Erold C. Wiscombe

http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearchresults/1,15792,4017-1-342,00.html

http://www.brownhistory.org/CJBWives_Children.htm#Wiscombe'sCJBWives

http://www.farwesthistory.com/haunbro.asp

Brown Book of Remembrance written by Hattie Critchlow Jensen and Loella Brown Tanner prior to 1948

"Bones in the Well: The Haun's Mill Massacre of 1838" by Beth S. Moore. 978-0-87062-345-5, March 2007.

http://www.retracing-our-family-legacy.com/Davenport_Newsletter.htm:

Jacob Foutz and his brother-in-law Jacob Hess, from the Dunker congregation area of Old Antietam on the Pennsylvania side of boundary with Washington Co. , Md., took up land in Richland Co., Ohio, in 1830.  Both Jacob Foutz and Jacob Hess subsequently became Mormon converts, went to Missouri with the Saints, were in the Haun's Mill Massacre (where Jacob Foutz was seriously wounded), retreated back to Illinois, settled in Nauvoo, and ultimately went West with the first wagon trains to Utah.  Jacob Foutz had a brother John who was dead in 1840. ...in 1840, Jacob Foutz, grandson of Conrad Foutz, Sr., by son John, did LDS ordinances in proxy for his dead brother John....There was a lot of cross association between the Conococheage and Antietam Dunker congregations.  The hatter connection and Clear Spring location is heavy circumstance favoring the Frederick Foutz, Jr., connection---but Frederick Foutz sold his interest in the valuable estate of his father Frederick, Sr., to a sister in 1811---and disappears from all further Washington Co., Md., records. ..The Jacob Foutz Family Association, Inc., P. O. Box 1500, Farmington, New Mexico 87401....

PFAUTZ PATRIARCHAL ORDER AS OF 1 July, 1981 

             A - HANS MCHAEL PFAURZ, of Lancaster Co., Pa., immigrant of 1727.

             B - JACOB PFAUTZ, of York Co., Pa., immigrant before 1730.

             C - THEOBALD PFAUTZ (DAVID FOUTS, Sr.), of Randolph Co., N.C., immigrant of 1738.

             D - JOHN DAVID PFAUTZ, of Washington Co., Md. (issue of first wife); ofRowan (now Davidson) Co., N.C. (issue of second wife); immigrant of 1749.

             E - CONRAD FOUTZ, of Franklin Co., Pa., immigrant of 1752.

             F - JOHN JACOB PFAURZ, of Philadelphia, Pa., immigrant of 1773.

             G - MICHAEL PFOUTS, Sr., of Harrison Co., Ohio, immigrant of 1787.

             H - JOHN FOUTS, of Morgan Co., Ohio, immigrant of 1820.

             I - ADAM FOUTZ, of Adams Co., Pa., immigrant of 1839.

             J - JACOB FOUTZ, of Baltimore, Md. , immigrant of 1849.

             K - LEWIS FOUTZ, of Montgomery Co., Ohio, immigrant of-1850.

             L - ADAM FOURZ, of Dearborn Co., Indiana, immigrant of 1854.

             M - WILLIAM FAMZ, of San Francisco, Calif., immigrant of 1855.

             N - GOTTLIEB PFAUTZ, of Philadelphia, Pa., immigrant of 1857.

             O·- WILLIAM FAURZ, of Norfolk, Va., immigrant of 1866.

 NOTE:  http://www.rawlins.cnchost.com/mormontrail/gzimmerman.html