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FISHER Family History, Part I

The surname "Fisher" is derived from the Old English "fiscere" - "to fish." It since became the Middle English "FISCHER" and also has Low German variants of "Fisser," "Visser," and "Wisser."

Our branch of the Fisher family begins with David Fisher, Sr.¹ (born c. 1795, PA) and his wife, Sophia Weeks¹ (or Meeks) (born 1796, PA). They started a family in Clinton County, Ohio, by 1819 and later passed through Vernon Township, Hancock County, Indiana (1833); Madison County, Illinois (c. 1843); and settled in Washington Township (Ashland, between present day Eldon and Agency), Wapello County, Iowa in 1850. From here the family branches out to Nebraska and Kansas: King David² and his family moved to Hebron, Thayer County, Nebraska and later Sherman County, Nebraska; Sylvester and his family moved to Marshal County, Kansas and Whiterock, Republic County, Kansas (1866).

Following King David's death in 1871, his son John Jackson moved to Sherman County in central Nebraska, but in the late 1880's or more likely early 1890's headed west to California and resettled in Sonoma County, the center for some 600 descendants.

David FISHER¹ (~1794-1868)

1. David Fisher¹ was born in 1794 or 1795 in Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Weeks (or possibly Meeks), a native of Pennsylvania, and began their family of at least nine children there. After Sarah passed away (after 1856), David remarried to the widow Nancy (Bowles) Rickey on December 6, 1863, and fathered three more children:

1A.	Samuel Martin FisherΔ	(Jun) 1815	Nov 1892	(77)
1B.	Catharine FisherΔ	(Sep) 1817	> Jul 1871	(> 53)
1C.	King David Fisher2	19 Feb 1819	12 Jul 1871	(52)
1D.	Elizabeth Fisher	(Apr) 1821	< 1868	(< 47)
1E.	Mary Ann Fisher	(Apr) 1824	16 Nov 1864	(40)
1F.	Sarah Ellen FisherΔ	19 Jan 1828	18 Feb 1876	(48)
1G.	John J. FisherΔ	20 Jan 1832	16 Jan 1891	(58)
1H.	Sylvester Theodore Fisher, Sr.Δ	4 Dec 1833	26 Sep 1897	(63)
1I.	Eliza Jane FisherΔ	16 Apr 1837	18 Jun 1903	(66)
1J.	Melissa Fisher	(Sep) 1864	(1882)	(18)
1K.	Isaac Fisher	19 Jan 1866	18 Oct 1948	(72)
1L.	Wilbur Fisher	14 Aug 1867	20 Jul 1927	(59)

David and Sarah were married about 1814 in Pennsylvania and started their family there with two children. By 1819, the family moved west to Clark Township, in the general vicinty of Martinsville, Clinton County, Ohio, where the next five children were born.

In 1833 the Fisher family continued westward into Indiana and on November 20, 1833, purchased 60 acres in the N½ of NE¼ of Section 10, Range 6 East of Vernon Township, Hancock County, Indiana, which is estimated to lie to the northeast of Fortville along modern-day East Broadway (Route 67). His family may have remained behind temporarily as David's fourth son Sylvester was born back in Clinton County, Ohio, that December.

Come the new year, David purchased another 80 acres on April 11, 1834, in the E½ of SE¼ of the same section, which is estimated to lie to the south of modern-day 1050N and north of W1000N. This second estate he sold on March 1, 1837, for $200.

In 1836, David's second son, King David Fisher, bought the 40 acres of the SW¼ of NE¼ of the same Section 10.

Son Samuel Martin and daughter Catherine both started their families in Vernon and gave David and Sarah their first grandchildren there. Catherine possibly stayed behind in Indiana when the Fisher family moved to Illinois before 1843.

On April 2, 1850, David sold both his Indiana estate and his son's estate on for $1,100 and moved west to Ashland, Washington Township, Wapello County, Iowa.

On May 10, 1850, David Fisher paid $900 to Joseph Finarty of Wapello County for the NW¼ of SW¼ and 60 acres of the west side of west half of the NW¼ of Section 14, also the NE¼ of SE¼ of Section 22, all in Township 71 (Washington Township) N of range 12 West containing 140 acres. The 100 acres on the west side of Section 14 was to be the family home for the rest of David's and Sarah's lives. This farm was very near the town of Ashland which does not exist anymore. It was between Eldon and Agency, Iowa. The home was a 3-room house made of soft white pine, sided vertically with 12" boards. Batting was placed over the siding edges. There was a lean-to on one side of the house. This house is still used as a shop on the farmstead across the road from where it was built.

By the census of August 1850, David's family and his son Samuel Martin's family were both resettled in District #13 in Wapello County, Iowa.

Sarah (Weeks) Fisher passed away about 1857 in Wapello County, Iowa, and was buried at the Ashland Cemetery in Wapello County.

David remarried to Mrs. Nancy (Bowles) Rickey, the widow of the murdered Dr. Foster Rickey. Nancy and her two youngest sons, John and Curtis Howard Rickey, were enumerated with David in 1860^{[Cen 1860]} however they were said to be married on December 6, 1863. They had three more children.

David Fisher passed away on July 27, 1868, at the age of about 73. David is also buried at the Ashland Cemetery in Wapello County.

At David's death there was a court division of David's land and it was sold at public auction. The following is a list of heirs of his estate:

Name	Relation	Years	Months	Residence
Nancy Fisher	widow	--	--	Iowa
Martin Fisher	son	52	6	Kansas
Catherine Garrison	daughter	51	3	Iowa
David Fisher	son	49	10	Missouri
Mary Ann Parsons	daughter	44	8	dead
Elizabeth Miller	daughter	47	8	dead
Sarah Ellen Davis	daughter	41	7	Indiana
John Fisher	son	37	11	Missouri
Sylvester Fisher	son	35	--	Nebraska
Eliza Jane Parkhurst	daughter	32	8	Iowa
Melissa	daughter	4	3	Iowa
Isaac	son	2	11	Iowa
Wilbur	son	0	4	Iowa

After David's death, Nancy and her children stayed on with Martin Fisher, a close family relative, and his family in Wapello County. She continued on in Washington Township through at least the 1885 Iowa state census, in which she and sons Isaac and Wilbur were enumerated in Township 71 North, Range 12 West, Section 22, Southwest-Southeast, along with the widow Mrs. Elizabeth Ellen (Chapman) Priest, whose elder sister, Harriet J. Chapman⁶ had married David's grandson, John Jackson Fisher³.^{[Cen 1870,1880, 1885]}

Samuel Martin FISHER^Δ (1815-1892)

1A. Samuel Martin Fisher^Δ was born in Pennsylvania in 1815. He married Rhuphema in Hancock County, Indiana about 1835 and had six children. A few months after Rhuphema's death, Samuel remarried to his brother's widow, Sophia Pritchard². Sophia died a year and a half later and then Samuel remarried to Nancy P. Carter a few months after that.

1A1.	George W. FisherΔ	16 Feb 1837	4 May 1902	(65)
1A2.	Sarah Fisher	1838	May 1860	(22)
1A3.	James T. Fisher	24 Aug 1846	9 Nov 1871	(25)
1A4.	Nancy Ellen Fisher	24 Aug 1846	Aft 1880	(34)
1A5.	John H. Fisher	1847	Sep 1859	(12)
1A6.	William H. Fisher	1852	Aft 1910	(>58)

Samuel Martin married Rhuphema, a native of Clinton County, Ohio, around 1835 in Hancock County, Indiana, where they bought property in Vernon Township. Their first child was born there in 1837 and soon after the family moved about 55 miles west to Madison County to a farm adjoining the widower George Hunter.^{[Cen 1840]} Soon after George married the widow Permilla (Davis) Pritchard¹, the mother of his future sister-in-law and later wife, Sophia Pritchard².

The Fishers next relocated to Rock Island County, Illinois, probably by 1846, where the next three children were born. Between 1847 and 1850, the family moved across the Mississippi River to Fredonia Township, Louisa County, Iowa, where their sixth child was likely born.^{[Cen 1850]} By 1858 the family moved about 340 miles southwest to Nehama County, Kansas; and ultimately in 1866 the moved another 100 miles west to White Rock Creek, Republic County, Kansas. Samuel was the first to settle the White Rock Creek area along with his wife, five children, and one grandchild.

In October 1866, Samuel, some visiting friends of his from Nemaha County, and other White Rock Creek settlers, went on a hunting trip through Holmwood and then southwest from Whitestone. There they were ambushed by a band of eight Indians. Outnumbered, Samuel offered no resistance and allowed the Indians to make off with surplus provisions, revolvers, and revolver ammunition. The Indians left them with a little food and their rifles and warned them not to hunt in that area as it was Indian hunting ground.

Glad to escape so easily, the hunting party returned to the previous night's camp but during the next morning, a lone Indian rode up and took a fancy to John Marling's powder horn. The Indian decided it would make a nice gift and decided to take the powder horn much to Marling's chagrin. John Marling three months earlier had his wife dragged away with a rope around her neck and assaulted by Indians and was therefore unwilling to give any Indian anything. Samuel Fisher feared creating unnecessary trouble and so advised John Marling to surrender the powder horn. John did so. The Indian took the powder horn, wheeled his pony around to leave but suddenly turned and shot Samuel in the back. Before Marling could fire back, Samuel pleaded not to return fire.

Samuel carried the bullet, and even a measure of respect for the Indians to his grave. He treasured a complete Indian suit and huge feather headdress which was given to him by other Indians.

In 1871, Samuel and Rhuphema's son, James T., died at the age of 25. That same year, Samuel's younger brother, King David died across the state line in Nebraska.

Rhuphema died on August 31, 1885, and was buried at the Persinger Cemetery in Republic County.

Four months later, Samuel remarried his brother King David's widow, Sophia³, on December 22, 1885, in Loup City, Sherman County, Nebraska. They lived in Republic County but this marriage only lasted a year and a half before Sophia died.

Sophia (Pritchard) Fisher³ died on May 17, 1887, while in her 60s. She was buried in Republic County.

Once again, Samuel was remarried by year's end, this time to Nancy P. Carter on September 13, 1887. They wed in Republic County.

Samuel moved to the tri-state area of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, as did his niece, Ellen C. (Fisher) Pound, sometime between 1887 and 1891.

Samuel Martin Fisher died in November 1892 at the age of 77 years in Benton County, Arkansas. He is reportedly buried at Stone Chapel Cemetery in the Flat Woods area southeast of Southwest City, McDonald County, Missouri.

Catharine (FISHER) GARRISON^Δ (1817-)

1B. Catharine Fisher^Δ was born in 1817 in Pennsylvania. She married Elvy Garrison on March 28, 1833, in either Clinton County, Ohio, or Vernon Township, Hancock County, Indiana. They had at least 10 children:

1BA.	Sarah J. Garrison	(1835)	--	--
1BB.	Mary Ann GarrisonΔ	(1837)	3 Jun 1898	(61)
1BC.	Silas Garrison	5 Jul 1840/1841	27 Dec 1893	(53)
1BD.	Rebecca Ellen GarrisonΔ	30 Mar 1843	22 Feb 1918	(74)
1BE.	Catharine S. Garrison	(1846-1849)	--	--
1BF.	Jeremiah GarrisonΔ	16 Nov 1852	5 Feb 1927	(74)
1BG.	Martha Garrison	(1855-1856)	--	--
1BH.	David Garrison	(Aug 1859)	--	--
1BI.	Eliza Isabelle Garrison	(1862-1863)	--	--

The Garrison family settled in Indiana by around 1835 where they were noted in both the 1840 and 1850 censuses in Vernon Township, Hancock County. By the 1860 census, they resettled in Batavia, Des Moines Township, Jefferson County, Iowa, where her brother King David, sister Mary Ann (Fisher) Parsons, and their families had settled in 1850 and 1851, respectively.^{[Cen 1860]}

Catharine was present at the death of her brother, King David, in Nebraska on July 12, 1871.

Elvy Garrison died on August 29, 1888, at about the age of 76.

King David FISHER² (1819-1871)

1C. King David Fisher² was born on February 19, 1819, in Clinton County, Ohio. He stood about 6' 6" tall. King married Sophia Pritchard³, a native of Indiana in 1840 or 1841. They had at least nine children, probably 12, born in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska:

1CA.	John Jackson Fisher3	6 Jan 1843	8 May 1906	(63)
1CB.	Mary C. Fisher	29 Mar 1845	Bef. 1871	(<26)
1CC.	Isaac Fisher	10 May 1847	(21 Dec 1866)	(19)
1CD.	Sylvester FisherΔ	12 Nov 1849	11 Jan 1889	(39)
1CE.	Sarah M. Fisher	12 Nov 1849	15 Dec 1883	(34)
1CF.	Ellen C. FisherΔ	2 Jun 1852	12 Jan 1899	(46)
1CG.	David W. Fisher	(1854-1855)	Bef. 1871	(<17)
1CH.	Frederick P. Fisher	22 Jan 1857	Bef. 1871	--
1CI.	Theodore William FisherΔ	20 Jun 1859	22 Nov 1925	(66)
1CJ.	Samuel M. FisherΔ	5 Aug 1861	(1885-1897)	(24-36)
1CK.	Ira H. FisherΔ	1 Apr 1863	3 Nov 1938	(75)
1CL.	Robert A. Fisher	9 Dec 1865	--	--

As a young man, King bought 40 acres in the SW¼ of the NE¼ of (Township 17 North), Range 6 East, Section 10, in Vernon Township, Hancock County, Indiana, in 1836. His father owned property to the north, northeast, and southeast in the same section.

King is said to have met his wife, Sophia Pritchard, near Louisville, Kentucky. They were wed in 1840 or 1841 and began their family in Illinois in 1843 with the birth of their first son, John Jackson. By 1846, the family moved to Indiana where the next four children were born.

King David allegedly left home to follow the Gold Rush to California but apparently returned to relocate to Batavia, Des Moines Township, Jefferson County, Iowa by the time of the 1850 census, along with his sisters Catharine (Fisher) Garrison, Mary Ann (Fisher) Parsons, and their families. Here they resided through the 1860 census until 1862 when the family moved again, this time to Big Sandy, Hobbs Precinct, Jefferson County in the Nebraska Territory—the heart of Pawnee territory—and homesteaded in the center of Section 9, Township 2 North, Range 2 West. Son John homesteaded in the northeast part of the same section. The family was run off the homestead in the summer of 1867 by Indians, ironically the same year that Nebraska gained statehood. It was probably in this attack that King David's second eldest son Isaac was killed. The Fisher family retreated east and resettled temporarily in Tarkio, Atchison County, Missouri for two years.

On June 1, 1869, King mustered in as a founding member and First Corporal (then at the age of 50) of the Nebraska Cavalry Militia, First Regiment, Company A, at Fort Butler to defend against Indian raids such as the one that drove his family out in 1867. He mustered along with three privates: Sylvester, age 19 (his son); James, age 24 (likely his nephew); and William, age 17 (likely his nephew and James' brother).

In 1870 a company of regular Army was stationed to the north at Kiowa which relieved Company A. At that time many soldiers took up claims in central and southern Thayer County, which likely prompted King's move from Big Sandy to Hebron. King homesteaded on Section 9 of Township 2 North, Range 2 West.

King David Fisher died of "lung fever" (or perhaps typhoid) in a dug-out on July 12, 1871, in Hebron, Thayer County, Nebraska. King David, by request, was buried on the homestead on a hill facing north overlooking the Little Blue River and the Oregon Trail. The hill had been a lookout for marauding Indians and lay between two springs (one known as Avalon Springs and later renamed Corliss Springs). King chose his final resting place so that he would never be thirsty. King Fisher's sister and son noted that he had joked with settlers of the area that they would have to shoot someone to start a graveyard—and he was the first of the group to die in Hebron.

Some say the tombstone originally contained the description "1st Sergeant, Fort Butler" but if so no trace remains. Furthermore, a Hebron poet by the name of G. W. Wasson penned a 22 verse poem to commemorate King Fisher, part of which reads:

Another contemporary of King Fisher's was D. W. Hendershot, among the early settlers of Hebron, wrote to his grandchildren recalling:

Among King Fisher's estate was a rifle named "Black Leg." King had broken the stock when he slipped and fell on the frozen Little Blue River. and patched the stock with a piece of brass. The rifle was passed to King's second youngest son, Ira who bagged his first elk around the Loup and Dismal rivers using "Black Leg" and later put it on display at the North Platte courthouse.

After King

King's widow, Sophia received her patent (#1371) for 160 acres on February 7, 1876, but later moved to Clear Creek, Sherman County, in central Nebraska, by the 1880 census along with her three youngest sons and the families of her two eldest sons, John and Sylvester. Sophia remained in Clear Creek into 1885^{[Cen 1885]} when her brother-in-law Samuel's wife died in August 1885 to the south in Republic County, Kansas. Sophia and Samuel married on December 22, 1885, in Loup City, Sherman County, and lived in Republic County. This marriage only lasted a year and a half before Sophia died.

Sophia (Pritchard) Fisher³ died on May 17, 1887, while in her 60s. She was buried in Republic County.

King Fisher Legacy

Kingfisher creek, township, and county, in Oklahoma, are said to be named for King David Fisher who camped along the creek in the days before the Chisholm Trail crossed through.

Elizabeth (FISHER) MILLER (1821-<1868)

1D. Elizabeth Fisher was born in 1821 in Clinton County, Ohio. She married Michael N. Miller and died sometime before her father, who died in 1868.

Mary Ann (FISHER) PARSON (1824-1864)

1E. Mary Ann Fisher was born in 1824 in Clinton County, Ohio. She married Andrew Jackson Parsons on July 27, 1845, in Hancock County, Indiana. They had as many as six children:

1E1.	Eliza A. Parsons	(1848-1849)	--	--
1E2.	Sarah E. Parsons	(1850-1851)	--	--
1E3.	David M. Parsons	(1853-1854)	--	--
1E4.	Martha A. Parsons	(Dec 1855)	--	--
1E5.	Augusta Parsons	(1857-1858)	--	--
1E6.	Noah Jackson Parsons	(1861-1862)	--	--

The Parsons family moved west from Indiana to Iowa by around 1851, where Mary Ann's parents and brother King David had resettled the year before. They later made a brief venture into Kansas where Augusta was born around 1857, but returned to Iowa by 1860 and settled near Mary Ann's sister Catharine (Fisher) Garrison and brother King David near Batavia in Des Moines Township, Jefferson County.^{[Cen 1860]} Her parents lived west of the county line in Wapello County.

Mary Ann (Fisher) Parsons died on November 16, 1864, in Wapello County, Iowa. She was about 40 years old. She is buried at the Ashland Cemetery in Wapello County.

Fred FISHER (1825-)

1X. Fred Fisher was born about 1825 in Ohio. He married a woman named Mary in 1849 or 1850 and lived next to David K. Fisher. Based on this and his birth place, Fred is possibly an additional brother of King David Fisher.

Sarah Ellen (FISHER DAVIS) HELVIE^Δ (1827-1876)

1F. Sarah Ellen Fisher^Δ was reportedly born on January 19, 1828, in Clinton County, Ohio. She married William Davis in Hancock County, Indiana, on July 28, 1845, one day after her sister Mary Ann married. Sarah and William had at least six children before William. Sarah later remarried to George Perris Helvie on May 7, 1870, in Hancock County, Indiana. He had five children from a previous marriage and they had one more daughter together:

1F1.	Mary Lucinda Davis	17 Nov 1848	--	--
1F2.	Clyde Davis	Abt 1850	--	--
1F3.	Harriett Katherine DavisΔ	13 Jan 1851	--	--
1F4.	Joseph Henry Davis	26 Mar 1853	--	--
1F5.	James Washington DavisΔ	01 May 1855	11 Apr 1931	(75)
1F6.	Malissa June Davis	14 Sep 1857	14 Nov 1879	(22)
--	William E. Helvie	9 Jun 1856	2 Feb 1943	(86)
--	Joseph Helvie	Jan 1860	(> 1900)	(> 40)
--	Ida M. Helvie	Feb 1862	(> 1900)	(> 38)
--	Josephine Helvie	Jul (1864)	1954	(90)
--	Malinda Helvie	(1865-1866)	(> 1880)	(> 14)
1F7.	Levada D. Helvie	22 Feb 1871	--	--

Sarah Ellen remarried to George Perris Helvie on May 7, 1870, in Hancock County, Indiana^{[Mar 1870]}, and settled in Huntsville, Madison County, Indiana, about 15 miles north of Hancock County. There she and daughter Malissa June lived with George's four children. A 4-year-old boy, H. F. Adams, also lived with the blended family.^{[Cen 1870]} The following year, Sarah Ellen gave birth to their daughter Levada at the age of 43.

Sarah Ellen (Fisher Davis) Helvie died on February 18, 1876, in Indiana. She was 48 years old.

John J. FISHER^Δ (1832-1891)

1G. John J. Fisher^Δ was born on January 20, 1832, in Clinton County, Ohio. He married Lurena A. Martin and had six children. After Lurena died between 1864 and 1865, John remarried to the widow Mary Ann (Yearwood) Harkness, a native of Georgia, and fathered two more children:

1G1.	William Oliver Fisher	2 May 1851	(> 1930)	(> 78)
1G2.	Mary E. FisherΔ	4 Nov 1853	(> 1910)	(> 56)
1G3.	Sarah M. Fisher	22 Feb 1856	26 Nov 1899	(43)
1G4.	George Thomas Fisher	30 Apr 1858	13 Jul 1940	(82)
1G5.	Margaret Ellen FisherΔ	4 Apr 1861	14 Feb 1891	(29)
1G6.	Lewis Frederick FisherΔ	6 Jan 1864	7 Oct 1947	(83)
1G7.	Ruby Ann "Becky" Fisher	24 Feb 1868	--	--
1G8.	Liere Dvora "Dora" FisherΔ	30 Dec 1871	26 Apr 1911	(39)

By the 1860 census, probably as early as 1855, the Fisher family had settled in Dennison, Pawnee Territory, Nebraska. At the time he was enumerated next to his next younger brother Sylvester.

Lurena A. (Martin) Fisher died on December 3, 1865, at the young age of 31 years. Her three surviving children were only between the ages of 1 and 7 years old. Lurena is buried at the Pawnee City Cemetery in Pawnee County, Nebraska.

Only two months after Lurena's death, John remarried to the widow Mary Ann (Yearwood) Harkness on February 8, 1866. He legally took responsibility for her son George Washington Harkness. They afterward moved to Morris Township, Sullivan County, Missouri, by 1870.^{[Cen 1870]}

John J. Fisher reportedly died on January 16, 1891, four days before his 59th birthday. He was buried in Riggs Cemetery, Rosalia, Whitman County, Washington. His son-in-law, Francis M. Layton, was buried with him 18 years later.

Sylvester Theodore FISHER, Sr.^Δ (1833-1897)

1H. Sylvester Theodore Fisher, Sr.^Δ was born on December 4, 1833, in Clinton County, Ohio. He married Sarah Marie Parkhurst, a native of Indiana, on December 14, 1853, in Wapello County, Iowa. The had as many as 16 children!

1HA.	Albert Ross Fisher	18 Mar 1855	24 Oct 1927	(72)
1HB.	Matilda Caroline Fisher	25 Sep 1857	2 Dec 1915	(58)
1HC.	William Riley Fisher	4 Nov 1858	8 Aug 1953	(94)
1HD.	Nancy Emeline FisherΔ	18 Mar 1860	29 Dec 1945	(85)
1HE.	Mary Adeline Fisher	19 Sep 1861	18 Sep 1910	(48)
1HF.	Stephen Douglas Fisher	8 Feb 1863	15 Jul 1865	(2)
1HG.	John David Fisher	29 Mar 1864	17 May 1935	(71)
1HH.	Sarah Isabelle Fisher	21 Jun 1865	27 Nov 1948	(83)
1HI.	Francis Marion FisherΔ	1 Jan 1867	5 Mar 1937	(70)
1HJ.	Joseph Henry FisherΔ	30 Jun 1869	8 Feb 1908	(39)
1HK.	Ira "Crink" Manzo Fisher	24 May 1870	14 Dec 1941	(71)
1HL.	Sylvester T. Fisher, Jr.Δ	23 Nov 1871	11 Sep 1936	(64)
1HM.	Edward Elonzo FisherΔ	16 Nov 1873	20 Jan 1929	(55)
1HN.	Keziah Catherine FisherΔ	15 Apr 1876	Nov 1939	(63)
1HO.	Ellen Celia Fisher	20 Dec 1877	14 Feb 1879	(1)
1HP.	Ida "Stell" Estella FisherΔ	21 Jun 1880	3 Nov 1951	(71)

Sarah Marie Parkhurst was born May 31, 1835, and married Sylvester in Wapello County, Iowa, on December 14, 1853, as recorded in their family Bible. There they had their first two children but by 1858 the family moved to Marysville, Marshall County, Kansas where their third child was born. In 1859 the family moved north into what is now Pawnee County, Nebraska and were enumerated in the 1860 census at Dennison, Pawnee Territory, next to Sylvester's next older brother John who had moved there perhaps as early as 1855.^{[Hobson, Cen 1860]}

In 1868 Sylvester moved one mile east of Liberty, Gage County, Nebraska, to Section 36, Township 2, Range 8 East. Here he owned a farm of 320 acres with 100 acres under cultivation and remained there the rest of his life.^[Hobson]

Sylvester was over 6 feet tall, a common characteristic of the Fishers, and had a large beard. He was a very good shot and hunted alone, sometimes for days, to supply meat for the family. He was a friend to all including Indians who still roamed the area.

Sylvester Theodore Fisher died on September 26, 1897, at the age of 63.

Sarah Marie (Parkhurst) Fisher died four months later on January 4, 1898. Both are buried in the Liberty Cemetery where a large marker identifies their graves.

Years later, son Ira organized and initiated a series of annual Fisher family reunions for his father's descendants that ran from 1928 until 1942 in Nebraska, Kansas, and Arkansas.

Eliza Jane (FISHER) PARKHURST^Δ (1837-1903)

1I. Eliza Jane Fisher^Δ was born April 16, 1837, in Hancock County, Indiana. She married Benjamin Franklin Parkhurst, the brother of her next elder brother Sylvester's wife, on August 25, 1855, and had nine children:

1I1.	David S. Parkhurst	29 Aug 1856	(> 1870)	(> 14)
1I2.	Nancy E. Parkhurst	2 May 1859	1898	(39)
1I3.	Benjamin C. F. Parkhurst	11 Oct 1861	(> 1870)	(> 9)
1I4.	Lavada T. Parkhurst	20 Jan 1865	1 Jul 1866	(1)
1I5.	Ulysses S. G. Parkhurst	22 Mar 1868	(> 1870)	(> 2)
1I6.	Arminda M. Parkhurst	12 Jun 1871	28 Sep 1875	(4)
1I7.	Emery Frank ParkhurstΔ	27 May 1874	(> 1920)	(> 46)
1I8.	Minnie Belle Parkhurst	6 May 1877	20 Oct 1878	(1)
1I9.	Inez Parkhurst	16 Oct 1880	10 Sep 1955	(74)

Benjamin Franklin Parkhurst was born April 3, 1837, and served in the Civil War. He died June 6, 1897, at age 60.

Eliza Jane (Fisher) Parkhurst died six years later on June 18, 1903, at the age of 65.

Melissa FISHER (~1864-~1882)

1J. Melissa Fisher was born about 1864 in Wapello County, Iowa. She was the first born of her father's second marriage to Nancy (Bowles) Rickey. Melissa died about 1882 at around the young age of 17.

Isaac FISHER (~1865)

1K. Isaac Fisher was born on January 19, 1866, in Wapello County, Iowa. He married Alice Belle Littlefield and had at least one daughter:

1K1.

Alice Mary Fisher

15 Aug 1892

17 Jun 1928

(35)

Wilbur FISHER (1867-1927)

1L. Wilbur Fisher was born August, 14, 1867, in Eldon, Wapello County, Iowa. He married Bertha Letticia Dunn on April 2, 1890, and had 5 children:

1L1.	Arthur Fisher	1 Dec 1892	1 Mar 1893	(3 mos.)
1L2.	Alta E. Fisher	2 Apr 1894	18 Oct 1929	(35)
1L3.	Jesse Isaac Fisher	7 Feb 1897	8 Dec 1982	(85)
1L4.	Alfred Fisher	11 Oct 1898	11 Aug 1899	(10 mos.)
1L5.	Rachel Fisher	30 Nov 1907	Feb 1947	(39)

Bertha Letticia Fisher was born August 23, 1872, in Birmingham, Van Buren County, Iowa. She was raised outside of Birmingham at a place called "Turkey Scratch."

Wilbur Fisher died July 20, 1927, in Ashland, Wapello County, Iowa. He was 59 years old.

Bertha Letticia (Dunn) Fisher died on what would have been her 59th wedding anniversary on April 2, 1949. She was sleeping in her yard at the time.