HENRY FOX III 6th great-grandfather

      Found some interesting facts about Henry Fox III, my 6th great-grandfather. He was born in 1698 in Brunswick, Virginia; son of Henry Fox II and Mary Kendrick. He married his first wife, Mary Goodwyn in 1721 and they had 4 children; Unity, Thomas Sr., Henry, and John Charles Fox. John Charles Fox married Mary Mollie O'Connor, a young girl who was kidnapped from Ireland and brought to America to be sold as an indentured servant. She almost died on the trip and would not try to return home. John and Mollie's granddaughter, Mary Catherine Fox would later marry Nathaniel Ellis, my 3rd great grandfather and the parents of John Milton Ellis.
      Now from the second child of Henry Fox III would result in the family of Mamie Fox, the grandmother of my first cousin, Brenda Nadine Jones. Thomas Fox Sr. was the grandfather of Michael Watson Fox Sr. Michael W Fox is the father of Pope Butler Fox, the grandfather of Beulah Garvin who married Charlie Jones. Henry Fox III is the 6th great grandfather of Beulah Garvin. How strange is that to live our lives and never know that we were related in another branch of the family tree. Miss Brenda has traced the Fox family all the way back to London, Middlesex, England. They were merchants, buying and selling with the Virginia Colony of New Kent, Virginia and later Brunswick, Virginia. Henry Fox III later moved to Craven, Richland, South Carolina and raised his family. Colonel Fox as he was later known was an eminent lawyer in Charles Town. A Cherokee War Document of July 30, 1761, mentions him as "our right trusty and well beloved Councilor, Henry Fox, Esquire" He died in 1770