From a biography of "T. S. Fulkerson" in An Illustrated History of Sonoma County, California (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1889), p. 329:
He [Fulkird] and his family had suffered greatly at the hands of the Indians. Five of his brothers had been slain by the Indians in the old State of Kentucky, were all of his children were born. Fulkird Fulkerson removed to Montgomery County, Indiana, about 1829, and again commenced pioneer life in its dense forests. |
From the biography of Richard Fulkerson in Ibid, p. 327:
His father, Fulkird Fulkerson, of German extraction, was born in the State of Pennsylvania, and when eleven years of age was brought to Kentucky by his father, John Fulkerson, very soon after the close of the Revolution. The family found refuge from the Indians upon first reaching that territory in the stockade at Lexington. |
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