A Reuben D. Fouts, age 54, resident of Greely Co. NE, filed a General Affidavit on Nov. 2, 1893 in Cedar Rapids and with the aid of his wife Clara, on Preston D. Wakeland's behalf when he filed for his Civil War Pension. His name does not appear in the 1900 Census, which suggests that he may have died between 1893 and 1900. Reuben Fouts was married several times and had "many children" according to Barbara Lankford.

A Jacob (Jake) Fouts lived at the Fouts' Tupper Street residence in Santa Rosa at the turn of the century: he was Reuben's son by another wife, whose name is not known at this time. He was Lee Fouts' older half-brother (Barbara Lankford, 8 Jan 1994, letter). The Wakeland family (Sarah P., Uncle John and Aunt Rose) and my great grandparents, William M. and Mollie Wendt, also lived on that street around the same time as well. Visiting the Fouts Family, specifically Jake and Clara is mentioned several times in Sarah P. Wakeland's diary.

Jacob Fouts was also a founder and "junior warden" of "Lafayette Lodge No. 126, F. and A. M." which was organized January 8, 1858, and would meet (until 25 Aug 1860) at Pleasant Hill, "about two and one-half miles south of Sebastopol (History of Sonoma County, by Ernest Latimer Finley, Santa Rosa: 1937, p. 316).