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- [S52] 1850 US Federal Census.
Name: Abram Fyock
Age: 6
Estimated birth year: abt 1844
Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Conemaugh, Cambria, Pennsylvania
Family Number: 17
- [S927] Obituary.
Henry Wilson Storey's History of Cambria County, V.III, p.534 ABRAHAM FYOCK, a retired farmer of Johnstown, Cambria county Pennsylvania, who has achieved prominence and veneration for his work in the interests of the Dunkard church of Walnut Grove, is a descendant of German ancestry. Jacob Fyock, father of Abraham Fyock, was born about the year 1812. He purchased a large tract of land in Conemaugh township, near the Frankstown road, and this he cleared of timber, proceeded to cultivate, and it is at the present day the Fyock family homestead, and in the possession of his son David. The greater part of his life was spent on this homestead, and he was very successful in its cultivation. He married Barbara Reichard, and had children: 1. Samuel, married Mary Lehman, had nine children, all now deceased, eight of them being carried off in early youth by diphtheria. 2. Jacob, married Susannah Berkebeil, and had children: John, George, Richard, Ida, Clara and Mary. 3. Abraham, see forward. 4. Daniel, married Annie Wissinger, and had children: Ezra, George, Jerome, Henry, Cyrus, Andrew, Harvey, James, Rose and Sevilla. 5. David, married Lizzie Williams, and had children Frank, Ephraim, Ella and Pearl. 6. Barbara, married John Keiper, and had children: Elmer, Emery, John, Ettie, Annie, Gertrude, Bertha and Ida. 7. Annie, married George Keiper, and had children: Sevilla and Emma. Abraham Fyock, third son and child of Jacob and Barbara (Reichard) Fyock, was born on the Fyock homestead, November 30, 1844. His early years were spent on the farm of his father, assisting the latter in its management and thus acquiring a practical working knowledge of the details of farm life. Upon the death of his father he resided with his brother, who had assumed the management of affairs, until he had attained his eighteenth year, when he removed to Johnstown and obtained a position with the Cambria Steel Company in the rolling mill. He enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, in 1864, Captain Stackhouse, commanding. He served in all ten months, taking an active part in the battles of Petersburg, Five Points, and several others. He was present with his regiment at the surrender of Lee. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged, and returned to Johnstown, where he found employment with John Tieter, a farmer. Later he married and went with his wife to live on the Fyock homestead, remaining there until 1869, when he purchased a farm in that vicinity. He cultivated this successfully until 1892, when he sold it to advantage and retired from active work. He removed to Walnut Grove, where he purchased a comfortable dwelling, with some adjoining land, and devoted all his time and attention to the Dunkard church of Walnut Grove, to which he had been elected minister in 1889. Ten years later the congregation elected him an elder, and at the present time (1906) he is filling both these offices in an eminently satisfactory manner. He has also charge of the Bolivar Dunkard church, at Bolivar, Pennsylvania, where he preaches twice each month. His long and faithful services in the interests of this church have been fully appreciated. Mr. Fyock married, November 23, 1865, Nancy Varner, daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Good) Varner. Samuel Varner was a son of George and Christina (Horner) Varner, was a farmer by occupation, and proprietor of a farm of sixty-nine acres. George Varner was a son of Nicholas Varner, who emigrated from Germany to this country in the early part of the nineteenth century. Abraham and Nancy (Varner) Fyock had children: 1. Samuel H., born October 21, 1866. 2. Clarissa J., born February 15, 1868, married, May 26, 1889, Scott Wilson. 3. Sarah A., born September 13, 1870, married, November 10, 1895, Benjamin Strayer. 4. Rachel E., born September 15, 1873, married, October 3, 1893, John Mills. 5. Emma C., born October 10, 1875, died May 28, 1880. 6. James W., born August 10, 1879. 7. Lucy E., born February 9, 1883, died November 16, 1887. 8. John C., born June 29, 1885.
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