![]() ![]() The George Fogleman family had in the meantime been living in St. His claim to this land was rejected on evidence that he had abandoned it in February 1819. ![]() In 1817 George cleared and cultivated about five acres of a 640 acre tract on the west side of Calcasieu River about two miles above Charles Lake. George Fogleman and his son John were soldiers in the War of 1812. He cultivated some of this tract about 1808-09, but apparently moved to another place without taking further steps to establish ownership of it. George Fogleman settled on and claimed 160 acres of United States government Land on the west bank of the Atchafalaya River in St. They moved into Louisiana at least by 1805, the year in which Louis Fogleman, the father of Elijah, was born. George and Sarah Hoozers Fogleman, the grandparents of Elijah Louis, had lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia and probably North Carolina before settling in Louisiana. From Pennsylvania to some of the Foglemans moved south and southwest. The Foglemans were of German origin (the name meaning Birdman in that language) and some of them came to Pennsylvania in the German migration to that colony in the eighteenth century. “The Lord and Fogleman Families” by Clyde W. This is a short history of the man for whom the Fogleman Cemetary was named. Among the early pioneers that settled in “Bayou Boeuf” were George and John Fogleman who were living there in 1820. ![]()
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