Fisher Family History, 4th Generation
(Lewis Frederick Fisher Children)

Fred Franklin Fisher (1897-1965)

1761. Fred Franklin Fisher was born May 5, 1897, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California.^{[Draft 1918]} His family moved from Sonoma County to Lakeport, Lake County, California, where he worked as a mail carrier. Fred married Eula Clarice Marston, a resident of Upper Lake, Lake County, on September 3, 1921, in Lakeport.^{[Mar 1921]} They had one son before they divorced:

Fred worked as a mechanic for Yolo Water and Power Company in Lower Lake, Lake County, in 1918, when he registered for the World War I draft. He lived with his parents and provided for them and one of his sisters. Fred was described as tall, slender, with brown eyes and black hair.^{[Draft 1918]} Fred subsequently enlisted as a Private on August 30, 1918, in Company D of the 8th Ammunition Train under the 8th Infantry Division. The 8th Division was organized at Camp Fremont at Menlo Park, south of San Francisco in San Mateo County, California. His company likely made it to New York to prepare for embarkation to Europe, but it is unclear if he and his company actually made it overseas before the war ended. Fred was discharged after five months of service on February 14, 1919.^[Vet]

Fred and Eula were married on September 3, 1921, by Justice of the Peace W.W. Page, in Lakeport. Fred as 24 years old and Eula was 17, so Eula's mother gave her consent.^{[Mar 1921]}

Fred and Eula apparently separated by 1930 when Fred and son Donald were living with Fred's parents in Lakeport. Fred worked as a steam shovel laborer.^{[Cen 1930]}

Fred remained in Lakeport through 1935 but son Donald went to Del Paso Heights, Sacramento County, California, by 1935. By 1940 they both moved to Chico Township, Butte County, California.^{[Cen 1940]}

Fred Franklin Fisher died on April 13, 1965, at the Veterans Home in Yountville, Napa County, California. He was 67 years old. Fred was buried at Hartley Cemetery in Lakeport.^[Grave]

Arthur Thomas Fisher (1900-1947)

1762. Arthur Thomas Fisher was born on February 6, 1900, in Sonoma County, California.^{[Birth 1900]} His family moved from Sonoma County to Lakeport, Lake County, California, by 1918. Arthur married Alta Alice Gard on December 12, 1930, in Lakeport. They did not have any children.

Twelve days after Arthur's brother Fred joined the Army, Arthur registered for the draft in Lakeport. He was 18 and working with his father as a farmer. Arthur was described as tall, slender, with brown eyes and brown hair.^{[Draft 1918]}

Arthur also worked for a time as a gypsum miner in Lakeport^{[Cen 1920]} and later returned to farming.^{[Cen 1930A]}

Alta had briefly been married to Donald Douglas Karnes in 1928. By 1930 she was living with her parents on Main Street in Lakeport and recorded as “single.”^{[Cen 1930B]}

Arthur and Alta married in Lakeport on December 30, 1930. They moved to Kelseyville, south of Lakeport, where Arthur worked in road construction.^{[Cen 1940]}

Arthur Thomas Fisher died in Contra Costa County, California, on February 7, 1947, the day after his 47th birthday. He was buried in Hartley Cemetery in Lakeport.^[Grave]

Lawrence Sylvester Fisher (1903-1979)

1763. Lawrence Sylvester Fisher was born on March 3, 1903, in Carson City, Carson City County, Nevada. He married Margaret Stewart on August 3, 1941, and had two sons.

Fisher Children

	Name	Birth	Death	Age
17631.	Thomas L. Fisher	--	--	--
17632.	Jimmy Lee Fisher	23 Aug 1947	15 Nov 1967	(20)

Lawrence worked as a farm laborer with his father and elder brother Arthur in Lakeport.^{[Cen 1930]} By 1940, his father and brother John moved west of Lakeport to Scotts Valley Hill Road [sic]. Lawrence worked as a farm hand and John was a mechanic's helper at a lumber mill.^{[Cen 1940A]}

Lawrence married Margaret, the daughter of George Humphreys Stewart, Sr. and Margaret McKenzie. He was 38 years old and she was 27.

Son Jimmy served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army with the 9th Infantry Division, 3rd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment, A Company, in Vietnam. He was assigned to Fire Support Base St. Barbara, also known as the “old French fort,” at Bàu Cỏ, Tây Ninh Province, 100 kilometers northwest of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). He was killed in action on November 15, 1967, in Long An Province, west of Saigon. Jimmy was returned home and buried at Franklin Cemetery (Santa Rosa Odd Fellows Cemetery) in Santa Rosa.^[Grave] Lawrence's nephew Rev. Harold Hudspeth conducted Jimmy's funeral service.

Lawrence Sylvester Fisher died in March 5, 1979, at Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa, Napa County, California. He was buried on March 8 at the Santa Rosa Odd Fellows Cemetery with son Jimmy. Lawrence was 76 years old.

Margaret (Stewart) Fisher died on February 10, 2001, at the age of 86. She was buried with Lawrence and Jimmy at Santa Rosa Odd Fellows Cemetery.^[Grave]

Florence Maybelle (Fisher) Cromwell (1905-1988)

1764. Florence Maybelle Fisher was born on March 13, 1905, in Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California. She married Warren Alfred Cromwell on April 24, 1930. They had three children, one of whom was stillborn.

Their first two children were born in Lake County, California, but by 1935 they moved north to Lassen County. They later rented a home east of Standish-Buntingville Road in Honey Lake Judicial Township, Lassen County, where Warren worked as a logger at a saw mill.^{[Cen 1940A]}

Florence and Warren divorced in the 1940s and Florence remarried to Archie Walton Hill on June 4, 1949, in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. In 1940 Archie lived with his mother and siblings on Russell Avenue on the east edge of Susanville in Honey Lake Judicial Township. At the time he was a divorced truckdriver for a whole creamery.^{[Cen 1940B]}

Archie Walton Hill died on February 23, 1960, in Trinity County, California, at the age of 58. He was buried the next day at Lassen Cemetery in Susanville.^[Grave]

Florence Maybelle (Fisher Cromwell) Hill died on May 21, 1988, in Ukiah, Mendocino County, California at the age of 83. She was also buried at Lassen Cemetery.^[Grave]

Warren remarried to widow Aileen Alice (Lush) Essex in 1946. They died in 1996 and 2005, respectively, and both were buried together in Ukiah Cemetery.

John Wesley Fisher (1906-1966)

1765. John Wesley Fisher was born August 22, 1906, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. He married Joan Ramey on September 1, 1940, in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, and had four children:

John is recalled to have dated Gladys Williams, the daughter of his second cousin Theodoric Fisher's widow, Cora, in the late 1920s or early 1930s, welll before marrying Joan.

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

John Wesley Fisher died on November 14, 1966, in Lakeport, Lake County, California. He was 60 years old.

Joan (Ramey) Fisher died 23 years later on August 15, 1990, in Lakeport at the age of 74.

Ruby Viola (Fisher) Hudspeth (1907-1988)

1766. Ruby Viola Fisher was born November 19, 1907, in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California.^{[Birth 1907]} She and her family later moved east to Lakeport, Lake County, California, where she married William Howard Hudspeth on September 18, 1929. They had twin boy and a daughter:

Ruby and Howard were married by L. C. McCloud, Justice of the Peace, in Lakeport. Recorded witnesses were Ruby's mother and elder brother John.^{[Mar 1929]}

The Hudspeths lived in Judicial Township 4, west of Lakeport in 1940 where Howard farmed.^{[Cen 1930]}

By 1935, they moved south to Kelseyville (likely Big Valley, north of Kelseyville, where daughter Margery was born in 1933) and then to the east side of Clear Lake at Sulphur Bank Rancheria, near Clear Lake Oaks, by 1940. Howard worked as miner there.^{[Cen 1940]}

William Howard Hudspeth died on November 18, 1985, in Ukiah, Mendocino County, California, at the age of 83. He was reportedly buried in Ukiah.

Ruby Viola (Fisher) Hudspeth died in May, 1988, in Alameda County, California. She was 80 years old.