SHOOK HISTORY
Christina Schuck, Jacob Shook’s Aunt,
married John Fullbright.
Their children were first cousins to Jacob and both families moved to
North Carolina together it appears. One of those first cousins, Jacob Fullbright
was two years older than Jacob Shook and he appears to have married a sister
to Jacob’s wife Isabella Weitzel (Weisel). Jacob Fulbright seved with the
Shook brothers, Jacob and Andrew through the Cross Creek campagn and the Rutherford
expedition. After the war Jacob Fulbright moved to Haywood County at some
point and lived nearby Jacob Shook. His brother John Fulbright must have gone
to Haywood County as well before 1820 because we see Jacob Shook as administrator
of his estate. Several other first cousins moved on to MO, maybe a clue as
to why Jacob Shook's son Jacob went west in 1805 to MO. Following this line
of Fullbright in it’s early years may help us understand our line and provide
additional information on our common ancestors.
This is the information we have on Fullbright :
Jacob Shook as administrator of John Fulbright's estate
Johann Wilhelm Vollbrecht / John William Fulbright, c.1720-1808, married Christina Schuck (6 Feb. 1716-Mar. 1808), in about 1744-45. Born in Germany, she was the daughter of Johannes Georg Schuck (1694-29 Dec. 1767), whose family were close neighbors of the Vollbrecht family in Williams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The Shucks had come to Philadelphia on the ship "Pink John and William" on 17 Oct 1732. (See "Pennsylvania German Pioneers" by Strassburger and Hinke.) Old John Schuck's will, dated 4 July 1763 and probated in Dec 1767, said in part; "my children, namely George, Dorothea, the widow of Jacob Yount deceased, Christina, the wife of William "Fullbrecht of the township of Williams...and the said Maria Catherina..."
The family moved, apparently as a group, probably accompanied by others from
the same area, undoubtedly by means of wagons they had constructed themselves
and drawn by oxen, to North Carolina. There they settled on the north side of
the Catawba River in what was then Lincoln, and is now Catawba County.
[ Actually we believe south of the river on Lyle’s Creek in what was then
Rowan, later Burke then Lincoln and now Catawba County. ]
Their children were baptized with the name of Vollbrecht in every such record
found, but all later used the name of Fulbright. The German name was generally
used in Pennsylvania and the English version later in North Carolina, however,
in some estate papers dated as late as 1815 use is still made of the old German
spelling.
The children of the couple were:
1) Johann Georg Vollbrecht, 1746-c1781 who remained in the immediate area;
2) Jacob Vollbrecht, 1747-1835, who married Elizabeth Weisel and moved to western North Carolina;
3) Mary Vollbrecht, c1751-____, who married John Link and they are believed to have moved to Missouri prior to her death;
4) Anna Catherina Vollbrecht, 1752-1811, who married Johannes Bollinger and moved to Missouri;
5) Margaret Vollbrecht, 1753-1816, who married Peter Crites and lived in Missouri;
6) Anna Elizabeth Vollbrecht, 1754-1802, who married a [John] Killian;
7) Dorothea Vollbrecht, c 1755-1833, who married Elias Moyers and moved to Indiana, probably in about 1816, and both were buried there;
8) Christina Vollbrecht, c1756-____, who married Benjamin Taylor and moved to Missouri; and
9) John William Vollbrecht, 1757-1820, who married Elizabeth (nee Coulter ??) and moved to Missouri. [He seems to have gone to Haywood NC instead]
The following are several postings I have run across on the Internet.
Please contribute your thoughts.
Bob Jones
John Killian is my family. They really stuck together. John's grandson John married Lydia Ann Hopper. The Hopper's were also from NC and moved with their family.
Debbie --
I too am trying to find the parents of my WILLIAM TINNIN (born 1777 in Orange
Co., North Carolina; died 1854 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri).
My information at present shows my husband's ggg-grandmother, SUSAN BOLLINGER
(born 1788/North Carolina, died Dec.14, 1848 in Madison Co., MO), as being
the daughter of JOHN BOLLINGER and ANNA CATHERINA FULBRIGHT; (SUSAN BOLLINGER
was one of 13 children);
JOHN BOLLINGER (1750-1811) was the son (one of 12 children) of HEINRICH MATTHIAS
BOLLINGER (BULLINGER) (1750-1811) and ELIZABETH WOHLRABER.
ANNA CATHERINA FULBRIGHT (1752-1817) was the daughter of JOHN WILLIAM FULBRIGHT
& CHRISTINA SCHUCK.
Cheryl
I am the current president of The Fulbright Family Association, which is an
organization of about 300 people who are descendants of either Johann Wilhelm
Volbrecht/Christina Schuck or Andreas Volbrecht. Both men appear in Northampton
Co., PA (JW after 1740, Andreas after 1760), and then in western NC after
1769. We have known, thanks to JW's will, that he had a daughter Elizabeth
who married a Killian. However, none of us in the Association have ever had
the proof to document her husband. (I descend from both Jacob Fulbright and
Mary Fulbright Link, both children of JW and siblings of Elizabeth.)
Recently, I have seen some assertions that Matthias Killian was the husband
of Elisabeth Fulbright, and that the couple left Lincoln Co., NC for the area
of Knox and Daviess counties in Indiana. I am interested in contacting anyone
with proof that Matthias Killian was the husband of Elisabeth Fulbright, and
also would like information on descendants. I would willingly share what we
have on the Fulbright & Schuck/Shook families in exchange for such information.
It is only recently that I have also made contact with descendants of Dorothea
Fulbright/Elias Myers Jr. in the same area of Indiana, so I have every hope
that this is indeed the correct Killian family. We also would welcome any
of Elizabeth's descendants into the Fulbright Family Association!! Bill Eldelman
weddlema@biology.semo.edu