An American Family History

Eliza Yerkes Fox's ancestors came to America before 1683 from Germany or the Netherlands and settled in the Manor of Moreland in Pennsylvania. They relocated to Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia) and then moved to Hamilton Township, Butler County, Ohio where Eliza died. Her family went on to Washington Township, Carroll County, Indiana.

Eliza's great great grandfather, the Reverend John Watts, was the well-known pastor of the The Pennepek Baptist Church.

The Luptons and the Conklins were Quakers in Pennsylvania and what is now West Virginia.

Anthony Yerkes
Germantown, Pennsylvania
Manor of Moreland, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

• Herman Yerkes
• Adolphus Yerkes

John Watts and Sarah Eaton 1687

The Reverend John Watts
Sarah Eaton Watts Yerkes
The Pennepek Baptist Church

Lower Dublin Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

• Silas Watts
• Elizabeth Watts Yerkes
• John Watts, Jr.
• Mary Watts Schull
• Sarah Watts Davis
• Deborah Watts Engle
• Stephen Watts

Herman Yerkes and Elizabeth Watts 1711
Manor of Moreland (now Upper Moreland Township),
Philadelphia County (now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania

• Anthony Yerkes
• John Yerkes
• Sarah Yerkes Hufty
• Josiah Yerkes
• Herman Yerkes
• Silas Yerkes
• Elizabeth Yerkes Howell
• Stephen Yerkes
• Elias Yerkes
• Titus Yerkes

Josiah Yerkes and Mary Walton 1747

Moreland Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

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• Joshua Yerkes
• Josiah Yerkes
• Rebecca Yerkes Wood
• Sarah Yerkes Bower
• Margery Yerkes Saurman
• Mary Yerkes
• Nathaniel Yerkes

Joshua Yerkes 1771

• Joshua Yerkes, Jr.
• Margaret Yerkes Blue (Peggy)
• Josiah Yerkes
• Mary Yerkes Conklin
• Rachel Yerkes Irvin
• Priscilla Yerkes Wood

Joseph Lupton and Mercy Twining 1713

Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Frederick County, Virginia which is now Jefferson County, West Virginia

• William Lupton
• Sarah Lupton Pickering
• Joseph Lupton

• Elizabeth Lupton Paxson
• John Lupton

• Ann Lupton Thompson
• Mercy Lupton McCormick Haines
• Jonathan Lupton

Jacob Conklin Family about 1756

Frederick County, Virginia which is now Jefferson County, West Virginia

• John Conklin
• David Conklin
• Mary Conklin Lupton
• Hannah Conklin West
• Jacob Conklin
• Henry Conklin

• Sarah Lupton Yerkes
• Hannah Lupton Wallingford
• Benjamin Lupton

Josiah Yerkes and Sarah Lupton 1805

Jefferson County, Virginia which is now West Virginia
Hamilton Township, Butler County, Ohio
Washington Township, Carroll County, Indiana

• Eliza Yerkes Fox
• William B. Yerkes (died young)
• Mary B. Yerkes
• Josiah Yerkes, Jr.  
• Sarah Ann Yerkes Hinkle 
• Catherine Yerkes Cline
• David Henry Yerkes
• Rebecca Yerkes Lenon 
• Henry Clay Yerkes