The Rice, Leffler, Miller, Philabaum, Hewitt, Winter, Miller, & Fullenwider families were famous for their participation in the Rice's Fort attack by American Indians in 1782 in The Dutch Fork settlement of Donegal Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. This has been called the last Battle of the American revolution. http://www.chartiers.com/

Raymond Bell: "In May 1776 Jacob Leffler, John Kinser and Philip Lutes from Dutch Fork made an exploratory trip and built a cabin on Fox Run, Shelby Co., Ky. They with others staked out a 1000-acre claim. (Depositions book 104 Shelby Co.). Philip was in Dutch Fork in 1777 and likely returned to Shelby Co., followed by the rest of the Fullenwiders in 1785." Raymond M. Bell Anthology http://www.chartiers.com/raybell/


(7) JACOB FULLENWIDER b. Hagerstown, Md., June 2, 1767; d. in Scott's Station, Ky., in 1848. In 1783 he went to Kentucky with his father, and was always a great Indian fighter, and was later in the army of "Mad Anthony Wayne " it being his last campaign against the Indians. He lived for a time at a fort, and later returned to Pa. to claim Anne Leffler as his bride, but this capricious young lady had changed her mind, and gave out that she did not wish to go to such a wild place as Kentucky, preferring the more civilized environment of Rice's Fort. Young Jacob was feeling rather badly when the benevolent Mr. Christopher Winter,* who had observed the state of his feelings, came forward with sympathy, saying to him: "Now you don't care for her as much as you think you do; look at all these other fine girls ; why don't you take one of them?" "They might not want to go to Kentucky either," said Jacob, ruefully. Mr. Winter became more and more sympathetic, seeing such a fine young man in such trouble, and at last said, "there's my Katherine; she'll go with you !" And so they were married almost immediately, on April 18, 1796, but spent several years in Pa. before going, as the first three children were born there; whether this tardiness in keeping her part of the bargain was pleasing to Jacob, history does not inform us, but they finally left Pa. and journeyed toward Ky., part way on horseback and part way by boat on the Ohio river. A story which illustrates her character is told of her presence of mind during this trip; the boat was not very well constructed, and some leaks came, and it was seemingly filling with water; every one made an effort to leave when she called for knives and tow, and began calking the cracks, and her bravery so inspired the others that they soon had the boat quite tight, and by watching and working with it managed to keep it afloat until they reached their destination. The captain was very grateful to her for this conduct. Jacob was for fifty years an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and was the principal founder of Shiloh and Olivet Churches; he was a man of much vigor, even in old age, and made a trip to Indiana on horseback when 80 years old, returning the same way. His wife died about the time of his death. They reared to manhood and womanhood fifteen children.

Chil. of Jacob and Katherine (all but three were born in Shelby Co. Ky.)

Peter Hunter Fullenwider m. Belinda McNair
John Fullenwider
Elizabeth Fullenwider m. Lewis Beatty
Ann Fullenwider m. Asa Tucker
Eleazar Fullenwider m. Lavinia Erwin Allen
Samuel Fullenwider m. Jane Houston
Mary Fullenwider m. Robert Cooper
Lucinda Fullenwider m. Atwell Mount
Christopher Fullenwider m. Sarah Van Nuys
Gamaliel Fullenwider m. Louise Bowlington
Nancy Fullenwider m. Henry Harris
David K. Fullenwider m. Catherine Elizabeth Moxley
Henry Winter Fullenwider m. Jane Amanda Shipman
Susan Catherine Fullenwider m. 1) John Cooper & 2) William Mount
Jacob Crow(e) Fullenwider
Source: The Bromwell Genealogy https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Bromwell_Genealogy.html?id=0WA2AAAAMAAJ

Jacob Fullenwider
Revolutionary Soldiers Listed on Plaque at Courthouse
http://www.kykinfolk.com/shelby/photos/revolutionarysoldiersplaque.jpg


Obituary of Jacob Fullenwider
Shelby News [Shelby Co., KY] July 14, 1847:
Died of pneumonia, at his residence on Bullskin Creek, Shelby County, Kentucky, July 5, 1847, Mr. JACOB FULLENWIDER, in the 80th year of his age.

The deceased, when a boy of sixteen, emigrated to this county, from Pennsylvania, with his parents, and shared in the many privations and dangers to which the early settlers of the State were exposed, and, after living for some time in a fort, settled on the farm on which he resided until his death. On the farm he raised fifteen children, six daughters and nine sons, all of whom still live, so far as is known, though widely scattered in [different] States. For fifty years he has been a prominent Ruling Elder in the Church of Shiloh and Olivet of which he was a principal founder and supporter. Death, to this aged servant of God, was neither an unexpected nor a welcome visitor. Having in early life dedicated himself to the service of his Master, he made it the great business of his life to prepare to meet his God--Knowing that there was a rest remaining for the people of God, he labored to enter into that rest. His numerous surviving friends can cheerfully surrender him into the hands of a merciful God, convinced from the ---- of his long and active life, and his resigned and tranquil death, that he is now sweetly reposing in the arms of Jesus. Mr. Fullenwider has left behind him, his aged and esteemed partner, cheered by the same hopes which sustained him in his declining days, and influenced by the same spirit which animated him. May a covenant-keeping God comfort her in her bereavement, and sustain her by his grace, until she is also permitted to learn by experience, that, to the Christian, to die is gain. D.T. S. Shelby county, Ky. July 6, 1847"

His grave has not been found to date.

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Note on Jacob & Catharine's issue - Most of their children were highly educated and accomplished citizens. (See Bromwell's Genealogy).

Henry Winter Fullenwider b. in Pa. (Rice's Fort), June 6, 1797; became a minister and went as a missionary to Texas, and lost his sight from riding in a fierce sandstorm. He and most of his family died of yellow fever about 1860; m. Belinda.

Other issue I have been unable to find on FAG include:

JOHN FULLENWIDER. b. May 14, 1798, in Pa., and d. in Shelby Co., Ky., at an advanced age. He was a student at Princeton Univ. Said to have been unm. Was by many persons considered the best Greek scholar in Ky.

GAMALIEL FULLENWIDER. b. Dec. 2, 1810 (thought to have d. in the South).

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(Note from Brenda - Jacob was my 6th g-granduncle. Having descended from several of the families of Rice's Fort, my research has led me to the fact that these families were not German as my grandfather told me. Rather, they were German-speaking Swiss, many from the area of Zug. Further research is welcome!)