Friday, December 11, 2015

The Abra Fox Farm, Porter



George and Hannah Fox


            The Abra Fox Farm is located at the top of the hill at the end of Pine Street in Kezar Falls Village near the Porter/Hiram town line.  This home which sheltered three generations of the Fox Family, stands near the location of the original home of their ancestor, Bartholomew Gould (1774-1855).  After his marriage to Mary Goodwin in 1798, they settled on this farm and raised a family of nine children.  Their oldest child, Abigail (1799-1852), married Calvin Fox (1798-1872) in 1822.  She was the grandmother of Miss Abra E. Fox. 
 
Abra Fox
                Abra E. Fox, the last of the family to live here, died in 1945.  Her father was George W. Fox (1822-1911). He married Hannah Gould (1831-1920) and they had 4 children: Noyes R. Fox (1854-1857), Francis Albert Fox (1858-1916) who married Gertrude Watson and was a lawyer who practiced in Kezar Falls Village, Abra (1860-1945) never married, and Preston G. Fox (1863-1931) also never married.

            Robert and Margorie Thorne were the next owners of the farm and named it “Pick a Rock or Two Farm”.  They sold it in 1963.  The most recent owner was the late Mark Hull, Jr.
The house still stands but all the out buildings are now gone.  Until recent years there were no other homes nearby.



George & Hannah in front of the Fox farm – circa 1890.  It is shown on the 1858 Porter Map as G. Fox.

The farm was the scene of the 40th Stanley-Gould family reunion Aug. 29, 1936.

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