Fisher Family History, 4th Generation
(Theodore William Fisher Children)

Loman W. Fisher (1879-<1910)

1391. Loman W. Fisher was born in November 1879 in Nebraska, perhaps Sherman County. His family moved to Iowa for a few years when he was a boy and then returned to Nebraska in the late 1890s and settled south of Ainsworth, Brown County, in the Sand Hills of north-central Nebraska. He is believed to have died between 1900 and 1910 while in his 20s.

Earnest W. Fisher (1884-1932)

1393. Earnest “Pat” W. Fisher was born in in June 1884, in Nebraska, perhaps Sherman County. His family moved to Iowa for a few years when he was young and then returned to Nebraska in the late 1890s and settled south of Ainsworth, Brown County, in the Sand Hills of north-central Nebraska. He is not known to have ever married and suffered from Bright's disease (acute or chronic nephritis), a chronic kidney disease.

Earnest W. Fisher died of Bright's disease on January 20, 1932, in Ainsworth. He was 47 years old.

Eva May (Fisher) Scheller (1886-1927)

1394. Eva May Fisher was born on July 8, 1886, in Nebraska, perhaps Sherman County. Her family moved to Iowa for a few years when she was young and then returned to Nebraska in the late 1890s and settled south of Ainsworth, Brown County, in the Sand Hills of north-central Nebraska. She married Charles William Scheller, a native of Illinois and son of Swiss immigrants, in Arkansas City, Cowley County, Kansas, about 1906. She was about 18 years old and he about 26. They had two children but only one survived:

The Schellers started their family in Arkansas City, southeast of Wichita, and the moved 1,100 miles northeast to Clinton Township, Oscoda County, Michigan, by 1910.^{[Cen 1910]}

Eva and Charles divorced and Eva moved south to Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, where she and Leona roomed with the Albert and Lena Wixon family. Eva worked as a dressmaker.^{[Cen 1920]}

After 1920 Eva may have lived for a time in Hillman, Montmorency County, Michigan, when daughter Leona married in 1924. Eva went on to remarry to Howard Cormany and settled in Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa.

Eva May (Fisher Scheller) Cormany died on April 13, 1927, in Sioux City, at the age of only 39 years. She is buried at Floyd Cemetery in Sioux City.^[Grave]

After Eva's death, Howard moved in with his widowed mother in Sioux City.^{[Cen 1930]} He remarried to Grace M. (Cain) O'Conner by 1940 and rented a house at 809 Jones Street in Sioux City. He and Grace worked at a hospital laundry.^{[Cen 1940]} Howard and Grace divorced by 1950 and Howard continued to work at the hospital laundry in Sioux City while boarding with the Lon and Grace E. Taylor family at 415 9th Street.^{[Cen 1950]}

Howard Cormany died on February 22, 1953, in Sioux City, at the age of 56. He is buried with Eva, his parents, and a sister at Floyd Cemetery.^[Grave]

Virginia Ann (Fisher Clark) McGrew^Δ (1890-1967)

1395. Virginia “Virgie” Ann Fisher^Δ was born August 8, 1890, reportedly in Griswold, Cass County, Iowa, but more likely in Nebraska, perhaps Sherman County. Her family moved to Iowa for a few years when she was a toddler and then returned to Nebraska in the late 1890s and settled south of Ainsworth, Brown County, in the Sand Hills of north-central Nebraska. She married Charles Gilbert Clark on July 7, 1905, in Ainsworth and had two daughters:

The Clarks started their family in Brown County^{[Cen 1910]} but divorced before 1918. Their daughters stayed with their father in Brown County.^{[Cen 1920B]}

Virginia remarried to Walter Vern McGrew, a native of Brown County, by 1918, and went on to live in Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa.^{Draft 1918, Cen 1920A]} In 1918, Walter was working as an electrical engineer for Iowa Light, Heat & Power in Sioux Centery, Sioux County, about 45 miles north of Sioux City.^{[Draft 1918]}

Virginia moved to St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, in the early 1930s where she lived for 35 years.

Charles remarried in the 1920s to Rachael Blanche Skadden and continued to live in Brown County.^{[Cen 1930]} He died there on December 24, 1972, at the age of 93.

Virginia Ann (Fisher Clark) McGrew suffered from Parkinson's Disease in her final years. She died of a heart attack on February 13 or 14, 1967, in St. Paul, at the age of 76 years. She was returned to Ainsworth and buried at the Ainsworth Cemetery on February 20.

Walter Vern McGrew died on January 9, 1978, in Ainsworth, Brown County, Nebraska. He was 91 years old and is also buried at Ainsworth Cemetery.

Ola Arthur Fisher (1892-1938)

1396. Ola “Oley” Arthur Fisher was born on March 8, 1892, near Winterset in Crawford Township, Madison County, Iowa. His family moved to the Sand Hills of north-central Nebraska in the late 1890s and settled south of Ainsworth, Brown County, where he grew up. He married Cecelia Jane Lewis, a native of South Dakota, on April 4 or October 11, 1917, in Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota. Deadwood had been the center of the Black Hills Gold Rush in the mid-1870s following the 1874 Custer Expedition into Sioux Territory. Oley and Cecelia had three children:

They started their family in South Dakota but returned to Ainsworth by 1920^{[Cen 1920]} and stayed until the summer of 1928 when they moved northwest to Carter County, Montana.^{[Cen 1930]} Later they moved to Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, where Oley worked as a miner.

Oley is recalled to have made moonshine on his farm.

Ola Arthur Fisher died of obstructive (pre-hepatic) jaundice on April 4 or 13, 1938, in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. He was only 46 years old.

After Oley's death, Cecelia lived in Charlo, Lake County, Montana, and Belle Fourche, Butte County, South Dakota.

Cecelia Jane (Lewis) Fisher died of heart trouble on either May 15 or 23, 1974, in Belle Fourche, Butte County, South Dakota. She was 72 years old. Cecilia was buried at Pine Slope Cemetery in Belle Fourche.^[Grave]

King Fisher (1894-1918)

1397. King Fisher was born on July 6, 1894, near Winterset in Crawford Township, Madison County, Iowa. He was apparently named for his paternal grandfather. As a toddler his family moved to Nebraska and settled south of Ainsworth, Brown County, in the Sand Hills of north-central Nebraska.

King went to work on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ) in Edgemont, Fall River County, South Dakota, at the southern edge of the Black Hills, by 1917. He was described in his World War I Draft Registration as tall, slender build, with brown eyes and black hair.^{[Draft 1917]}

King Fisher died of influenza, perhaps of the Spanish flu pandemic, on October 14, 1918, in Edgemont, Fall River County, South Dakota. He was only 24 years old.

Ethel (Fisher) Gardner (1901-1919)

1398. Ethel Fisher was born on August 24, 1901, in Nebraska, likely near Ainsworth, Brown County. She married a Gardner.

Ethel (Fisher) Gardner died of diphtheria in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, on Saturday, April 5, 1919. She was only 17 years old. Ethel's remains were returned home where she was buried at the Ainsworth Cemetery.