Fisher Family History, 3rd Generation
(John J. Fisher Children)

William Oliver Fisher (1851->1930)

171. William Oliver Fisher was born on May 2, 1851, in Indiana. He married Mary F. Spray on January 12, 1873, in Sullivan County, Missouri.^{[Mar 1873]} They had three children:

William and Mary were wed by A. C. Greer, Minister of the Gospel.^{[Mar 1873]} Eleven days after their marriage, William's youger sister Sarah married Mary's elder brother George Washington Spray. They were also married by A. C. Greer.

The Fishers and the Sprays briefly moved northwest to the northeast portion of Wyoming Territory in the late 1870s. They were enumerated together “North of the North Platte River,” which had originally been recorded as Albany County but was aftward updated as Crook County. Crook County, in the northeast corner of Wyoming, was formed from portions of Albany and Laramie Counties on December 8, 1875, but was later whittled down to its modern boundaries by ceding Weston County (1890) and Campbell County (1911). The Fishers and the Sprays were recoreded as “farmers and emigrants.” Mary and George's widowed mother, Margaret E. (Page Spray) Yearwood, lived with George.^{[Cen 1880]}

The Sprays (and perhaps the Fishers) returned to Missouri by the birth of a son in 1881. Daughter Clara was born in Missouri in 1887.^{[Cen 1900]}

The Fishers and the Sprays settled in Benton Township, Polk County, Missouri, about 200 miles south of Morris Township, by 1899. William farmed there and Mary's widowed mother Margaret E. (Page Spray) Yearwood lived with them.^{[Cen 1900]}

Mary F. (Spray) Fisher apparently died between 1900^{[Cen 1900]} and 1905. She would have been in her mid-40s.

William remarried to Nancy Ellen (Lark) Morris, the widow of Zachariah Morris (1850-1890), on June 15, 1905, in Polk County. She had been married to William's brother-in-law, George, in 1900. It is not yet clear whether George died or that he and Nancy separated. William, Nancy, and the youngest of her seven children, Henry Morris, lived together in Benton Township. William farmed and Henry was a farm day laborer.^{[Cen 1910]}

William and Nancy continued to live in Benton Township through at least 1920^{[Cen 1920]}

William and Nancy apparently separated by 1930 when he had moved in with his widowed daughter Lurana (Fisher) Williams at 201 East 5th Street just south of the state capital in Carson City, Ormsby County, Nevada. William was recorded as a “widower” but Nancy lived elsewhere.^{[Cen 1930]}

Nancy Ellen (Lark Morris) Fisher died on August 4, 1934, at the age of 76. She was buried with her son Willis C. Morris (1882-1908) at Mount Zion Cemetery in Pleasant Hill Township, Sullivan County. She was joined four years later by aforesaid son Henry Morris (1889-1937). The name on her headstone reads “Nancy E. Morris.”^[Grave]

Mary E. (Fisher Taylor) Layton^Δ (1853->1910)

172. Mary E. Fisher^Δ was reportedly born on November 4, 1853, in Iowa.^{[Cen 1860]} Her family moved to Nebraska Territory and Missouri. She married William E. Taylor in Lane County, Oregon, on November 12, 1874, and had three children:

Mary and William obtained a marriage license on November 7, 1854, with an affidavit from Marion F. Taylor, who attested that they were 18 and 21 years of age. T. M. Martin, Minister of the Gospel, performed the wedding at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Regis Pepiot (1823-1894) in Lane County.^{[Mar 1874]} Pepiot and Martin both resided in Camp Creek Township near Eugene.

Son George was reportedly born in Salem, Marion County, Oregon.^{[Dth 1933]}

The Taylor family has not been found in the 1880 or 1900 censuses, but Mary remarried to Francis “Frank” M. Layton sometime during that time frame. He was a divorcée with six children who divorced sometime before 1880.

Mary likely moved to Lincoln County, Washington, by 1897, when daughter Grace married and started her family in Sprague. By 1900, the Laytons moved east to Rock Creek Precinct, in neighboring Whitman County, where Mary and Frank owned a farm next to daughter Grace and her family. They had a 17-year-old servant, William Root, living with them and working as a farm laborer.^{[Cen 1900]}

Francis M. Layton died on August 22, 1909, in Rosalia, Whitman County, Washington, at the age of 64. He was buried with Mary's father in Riggs Cemetery in Rosalia.^[Grave]

After Frank's death, Mary lived with her daughter Grace (Taylor) Maxey, sons Arley J. and George E. Taylor, and their families in Rock Lake Township, Spokane County, Washington, in 1910. Mary was recorded to be a farmer; her son-in-law Henry W. Maxey and son Arley J. were both farm laborers who worked out; and son George E. worked odd jobs.^{[Cen 1910]}

Sarah M. (Fisher) Spray (1856-1899)

173. Sarah M. Fisher was born on February 22, 1856, in Pawnee County, Nebraska Territory. She married George Washington Spray (Sr.) a widower with three sons. They wed in Sullivan County, Missouri, on January 23, 1873^{[Mar 1873]}, 11 days after her elder brother William married George's younger sister Mary. They had eight children together:

George was previously married to Nancy A. Peck (1845-1870) who died after six years of marriage.

Sarah and George were wed by A. C. Greer, Minister of the Gospel^{[Mar 1873]}, who had also married siblings William and Mary.

The Sprays and the Fishers briefly moved northwest to the northeast portion of Wyoming Territory in the late 1870s. They were enumerated together “North of the North Platte River,” which had originally been recorded as Albany County but was aftward updated as Crook County. Crook County, in the northeast corner of Wyoming, was formed from portions of Albany and Laramie Counties on December 8, 1875, but was later whittled down to its modern boundaries by ceding Weston County (1890) and Campbell County (1911). The Sprays and the Fishers were recorded as “farmers and emigrants.” George's widowed mother, Margaret E. (Page Spray) Yearwood, lived with them.^{[Cen 1880]}

The Sprays (and perhaps the Fishers) returned to Missouri by the birth of son Henry in 1881. Two more children were born in Missouri before the family moved northwest to Palouse, Whitman County, Washington, around 1888. Their last two children were born there, but in 1899 they returned to Missouri again, this time to Polk County, about 200 miles south of Morris Township.

Sarah M. (Fisher) Spray died on November 26, 1899, in Missouri, at the age of 43. She was buried at Reed Cemetery south of Halfway, in Polk County.^[Grave]

George remarried to Nancy Ellen (Lark) Morris, the widow of Zachariah Morris (1850-1890), in early 1900. The youngest of their seven children, 10-year-old son Henry Morris, joined the blended family in Benton Township, Polk County, Missouri. George and his three youngest teenaged boys farmed there. Eldest son Arthur and his family were enumerated two households before. Sister Mary, her Fisher family, and mother Margaret were enumerated on the subsquent page in Benton Township.^{[Cen 1900]}

Records of George after 1900 have not been found. One researcher believes he died before 1910 and another holds that he died on October 31, 1922.

Nancy went on to marry George's aforesaid brother-in-law William O. Fisher on June 15, 1905, in Polk County.

George Thomas Fisher (1858-1940)

174. George Thomas Fisher was born April 30, 1858, in Pawnee County, Nebraska. He probably migrated to California along with his younger brother Lewis and cousin John Jackson Fisher. He married Etta Whitney on October 26, 1886, in Lincoln County, Washington. They had one daughter, born in Oakland, Alameda County, California:

George left home in Missouri when he was only 15 years of age. He first went to Texas, then northwest to Washington, south to California, and finally to Nevada.

George later married Mary Katherine “Katie” BAIN, a native of Carson City and widow with five children, by 1930.^{[Cen 1930]}

George and Catherine rented a home for $16 in the Ludwig-Artesia Precinct of Lyon County, Nevada. George worked as a rock crusher at a gypsum plant and Catherine worked as a seamstress from home.^{[Cen 1930]}

George and Catherine bought a modest home at 208 West 3rd Street, two blocks west of the state capital in Carson City, by 1935. It was valued at $450. George was recorded to have had no education and Catherine had completed the 5th grade.^{[Cen 1940]}

George Thomas Fisher died of pyelonephritis (kidney infection) on July 13, 1940, at his home in Carson City. He was 82 years old. George was buried at Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City.^[Grave]

Katherine (Bain) Fisher died on May 16, 1942, of a cerebral hemorhage at Ormsby County Hospital in Carson City. She had been hospitalized for 16 days. She was 79 years old. Katie was buried with George at Lone Mountain Cemetery.^[Grave]

Lewis Frederick Fisher^Δ (1864-1947)

176. Lewis Frederick Fisher^Δ was born January 6, 1864, in Nebraska. Lewis (also noted spelled as “Louis” on some documents) moved from Nebraska to California and married Rosa Belle Paschal, also a Nebraskan, on February 27, 1896, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. They had six children:

Fisher Children

	Name	Birth	Death	Age
1761.	Fred Franklin Fisher	5 May 1897	Apr 1965	(67)
1762.	Arthur Thomas Fisher	6 Feb 1900	7 Feb 1947	(47)
1763.	Lawrence Sylvester FisherΔ	3 Mar 1903	Mar 1979	(76)
1764.	Florence Maybelle Fisher	13 Mar 1905	21 May 1988	(83)
1765.	John Wesley FisherΔ	22 Aug 1906	14 Nov 1966	(60)
1766.	Ruby Viola Fisher	19 Nov 1907	May 1988	(80)

Lewis likely moved to California with his elder cousin, John Jackson Fisher³, about 1894.

Rosa Belle was the daughter of Isaiah Franklin Paschal, a native of Illinois, and Lucy Jane OLDS. She and Lewis were married by O. T. Baldwin, Justice of the Peace in Santa Rosa Township and Petaluma from 1884 to 1897.

Lewis registered to vote at the Mt. Olivet Post Office, on July 31, 1896, as a resident of Fulton in Sonoma County. At the time he was described as a 32-year old laborer from Nebraska, 6' 4" tall, medium complexion, brown hair, and brown eyes. He was living in Fulton at the time. By 1904, Lewis was a Cloverdale resident and registered in Asti along with his cousin, Theodoric⁴. Later, he and his family moved to Dry Creek Road, west of Healdsburg, in Mendocino County, California, where he worked as a general farm laborer.^{[Birth 1907, Cen 1910]} By 1912, he was living in Skaggs Springs, still as a farmer. In this year he registered at the Cloverdale Post Office as a Democrat. Wife, Rosa, a housewife, also registered in this year as a Democrat.

The Fisher family moved to Lakeport, Lake County, California, by 1918^{[Draft 1918]}, and lived on 11th Street by 1920.^{[Cen 1920]} They later moved closer into town to 3rd Street.^{[Cen 1930]}

Rosa Belle (Paschal) Fisher died on December 26, 1936, in Lakeport, Lake County, California. She was 61 years old. Rosa was buried on the 28th at the Hartley Cemetery in Lakeport.^[Grave]

Lewis and sons Lawrence and John moved west of Lakeport to Scotts Valley Hill Road [sic] by 1940. Lawrence worked as a farm hand and John was a mechanic's helper at a lumber mill.^{[Cen 1940]}

Three years after Rosa's passing, Lewis remarried to the widow Elizabeth “Bessie” May (Fry) Huffman on September 29, 1943, in Lakeport. The were wed by H.P. Spiller, Baptist Minister of the Gospel.^{[Mar 1943]}

Lewis Frederick Fisher died on October 7, 1947, at the age of 83. He as also buried at the Hartley Cemetery.^[Grave]

Five months after Lewis' death, Bessie remarried to William Oliver Rader, a 77-year-old widower, on March 8, 1948, in Lakeport.

Elizabeth “Bessie” May (Fry) Rader died on October 9, 1956, at the age of 80. She had been living at 30 Manzanita Street on the outskirts of Lakeport at the time. Bessie was buried on October 12 in Hartley Cemetery.^[Grave]