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\n\n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nSince I found these photos and wrote the previous blog post, I have been searching for a “Faught Lake”, with no luck. Until this last weekend. On August 29th, we had a McKenzie Family Reunion. During that reunion, I asked others if they had ever heard of a Faught Lake in Montmorency County. No one had heard of a Faught Lake, however, a couple of my relatives knew of a\u00a0Foch\u00a0lake.\nKen McKenzie<\/strong>, my 1st cousin once removed, had a plat map of Montmorency County and was able to point out Foch Lake on the map.\n\n\n\n
\n\nFoch Lake\n<\/td>\n\n\nFoch Lake – Close up\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This was an interesting turn of events, so I decided that I would investigate further when I got home from the reunion.\u00a0Well, Sometimes the genealogy stars align and you receive the\u00a0information\u00a0you need, just when you need it. I was lucky enough to have this happen.<\/p>\nI had previously ordered a homestead application file for George Faught<\/a><\/strong>, my 3rd Great Grandfather, from the National Archives. Well, after the 8 hour trip from Michigan to Wisconsin, I checked the mail and there it was. After reviewing the documents in the file, I realized that George Faught<\/a><\/strong> had entered a homestead application for 160 acres of property located in Township 32N, Range 1 East,\u00a0Southeast quarter of\u00a0Section\u00a028. The Document below is a portion of the homestead application file that shows the description of the land. The image next to it shows where George’s property would have been located.\n\n\n\n
\n\nHomestead application for George Faught\n<\/td>\n\n\nLocation of George Faught Homestead and Foch Lake\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nAs you can see Foch Lake is clearly a large portion of the land that George homesteaded. This property later transferred to Mary Anna (Faught) Mckenzie<\/a><\/strong> after George’s death in 1905. More on this in a later post.\nFoch Lake is really Foch Lakes – two natural basins each more than 20 feet deep. Decades ago, around 1948, the state dammed Foch Creek and flooded the area, transforming the two small bodies of water into one, 85-acre impoundment.\nAlthough,\u00a0I would love to say that I was able to find definitive proof that this lake was named after one of my ancestors, at this point in time I can’t. \u00a0There does seem to be a possible connection between the name Faught and Foch. However, the fact\u00a0that my 3rd great grandfather (George Faught<\/a><\/strong>) and 2nd great grandmother (Mary Anna (Faught) McKenzie<\/a><\/strong>) both owned the land that the lake now occupies seems like pretty good proof.\nEven if Foch Lake was not named after one or more of my Faught<\/strong> ancestors, I do believe that I found the reason that my grandmother, Edna Jean (Burt) McKenzie<\/strong><\/a>, believed that it was.\nThis is just another great example of how listening to the clues from family stories can help you to put the pieces of your family history together in new and exciting ways.\n\t\t\t\t\"Blog\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an earlier blog post called\u00a0Road Trip Through Our Family History,\u00a0I mentioned some photos that I found labeled as Faught Lake. If you remember the photos also suggested that this lake was named after my 2nd great grandmother Mary Anna Faught. Since I found these photos and wrote the previous…<\/p>\n

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