Person:Ambrose Fuller (1)

Notes on Find A Grave

Ambrose Fuller Sr., son of Jehiel Fuller, was born in Sharon, Conn. on September 7, 1790. He moved to Jackson Township, Luzerne Co. Penn about 1795 with his father, Jehiel, and Grandfather Joseph Jr. Ambrose married Hannah Munson on March 19, 1816, Somerset Co. PA. They had eleven children including Ambrose Jr. born November 19, 1829, who made the moved west at age 10. In the summer of 1839 Ambrose moved the family along with his mother Hannah Fuller (Hill), wife of Jehiel, by covered wagon 800 miles west to Elmira, Stark Co., Illinois. They traveled by way of Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, thru the Black Swamps of Indiana, and arrived at the Illinois River across from Peoria. They crossed the river on a ferry and to his cousin's William Winter at Prince's Grove where the stayed overnight The next day they arrived at the home of Lemuel Dorrance near Modena in Stark Co., Illinois, and wintered there in Mr. Dorrance's old log cabin that he left after building a new home. The journey took 45 days. We have the family bible that Ambrose brought west on their journey. He bought 160 acres where Elmira now stands. On March 12, 1840, they moved into their new home. Ambrose and his neighbors wanted a school so they used an empty log cabin and hired a teacher and began the first school in Elmira that same year. The family farmed in the area. It was prairie land from Elmira to Toulon. There were wolves, rattlesnakes, prairie chickens, wild geese, sand-hill cranes and deer and buffalo on the prairie. He was in the new land for only about 6 years before dying, but he had moved his family west to a new land of plains. Ambrose died May 30, 1845 and was buried in a Walnut coffin in the corner of his own property, which became the nucleus of the Elmira Cemetery, in Elmira, Stark Co., IL. (Excerpts from article written by Ambrose Fuller Jr. in the 1890's in the Stark Co. News, Toulon, IL.) Ambrose had son Ambrose Jr..

The Fuller family has now migrated over 1,200 miles from their Mayflower landing at Plymouth, MA.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Ambrose Fuller, in Find A Grave.

   Ambrose Fuller, 30 May 1845, 54yrs 8 mos 23 dys. Lot # 246

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Fuller, William Hyslop. Genealogy of Some Descendants of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower. (Palmer, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States: C. B. Fiske & Co., 1908)
   pp 209 & 212.
3. ↑ Ambrose Fuller, deceased. His survivors are listed as:, in Orphan Court Records - Fuller, Jehiel
   1848.

   a. Ansel Fuller...b. Laton Fuller...c. Clinton Fuller...d. Walter Fuller...e. Ionthy Fuller...f. Lucy M. Fuller...g. Hannah...h. Melinda [not his daughter]...i. Nancy Fuller...6. Henry H. Fuller, deceased...

4.   4557 Hannah Hill, in Alden Kindred of America Genealogy Database.

   13497 M ii Ambrose Fuller