FIRST GENERATION AMERICANS

Fecht Brothers
Three of the sons of Margaret (Bost) and Jacob Fecht, (left) Joseph Jacob, (center) William Charles and (right) John Christopher Fecht - Photo courtesy of Daniel M. Sullivan.

JOHN VANCE

John Vance - Photo contributed to this Family Pictures Blog by Dr. Dan Sullivan - 2008
This photo is inscribed "To Mushie and Ina from John Vance".
I had no record of John Vance, but I do of whom I consider his parents. He is likely the great grandson of Margaret (Bost) and Jacob Fecht. Dr. Dan may help more when he tells us how he acquired this image.
He is a descendent of Joseph Jacob Fecht.

FIRST AMERICAN FAMILY

This photograph contains the images of most of the members of first Fecht family in America.
L to R - top
William Charles, John Christopher, Matthew Gere, and Joseph Fecht
seated
Mary Fecht Dawson, Elizabeth Fecht Campbell, Margaret Fecht Bost Sullivan, Margaret Bost Fecht, and Dora Fecht Sullivan
Missing from the picture is Jacob Fecht, his oldest son Jacob (both killed in Pennsylvania coal mine accidents) and
Katherine Fecht Leger Robbins.
I do not have an original of this picture. If we can locate it, it may have the studio and town that it was done in.