The Fishers of Lyndonville, VT
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collected by George E. Fisher
[[Notes by Laurie Dickinson Trask Mann, 1996]]
Many thanks to Alice Fisher Bassett for sending along photos!
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Lewis Fisher emmigrated to America from Germany with his wife, Frederica Kerbs, in the early 1800s. They appeared with their son Christoper in the 1850 Census for Vermont:
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One of Christopher's sons was George Fisher, who was born in 1869, and
who married Alice MacLaren:
George Fisher worked for the railroad and served a term or two in the Vermont legislature (during the time when politics was still considered a service rather than a life-long profession). He collected newspaper clippings, seed packets, and all kinds of odds and ends. In his old age, he created many scrapbooks. I've seen two of the scrap books, and they contained lots of material about the Civil War, trains, poetry, humor, horticulture, Vermont politics, and a few family stories. I understand there are many other scrapbooks around. Here's some of the family data from two scrapbooks.]]
[[from a newspaper clipping dated March 27, 1929]]
George E. Fisher served in the Vermont legislature in 1906
[[from a newspaper clipping dated 1936]]
Mrs. Agnes M. Goozey [[his sister-in-law]] of Charles street, who is confined to her
home by blindness, had the pleasure of hearing
one of her poems, "Tried and True," read by
Dr. John Thomas on the radio, telling the story of Dolly,
a faithful Morgan horse the family once owned. This poem was
published in 1914 in The Vermonter.
[[from a letter dated September 6, 1936]]
A brief newspaper article of mine concludes, "Poor, old, decaying Wolcott,
if you will, now not much more than a hamlet, but join the throng
that was singing "We are Coming, Father Abraham, Three Hundred Thousand
'ore". Some have naturally assumed that I was referring to my father's
Civil War service, which is not correct.
The 118 included two uncles, Henry J. and Gustave P. Fisher, while my father, Christopher C. Fisher, is credited as having enlisted in the Sixth Vermont from Essex. My mother's only brother, William J. Domag, enlisted from Jericho in Bordan's 1st U. S. Sharpshooters and was killed during the first day's fighting in the Wilderness[[(on 5/5/1864, according to a KIA list)]]. He sleeps probably among the 2118 unknown dead who were gathered from several battle fields and fill one grave in Arlington Cemetary.
I once heard from Yvonne, who is descended from this line of Fishers. Lewis W. Fisher emmigrated from Hirschberg, Germany with his wife, Frederica Kerbs, at some point in the 1840s or 1850s. Their son, Christopher C. Fisher, was my great-great grandfather, and he was born in Germany. Yvonne didn't have Henry J. listed as one of Christopher's brothers, but did have Gustave. It was great to see Yvonne's research!
George married Alice MacLaren and they had two children: Clayton and Marion Newton Fisher Shonyo. She was born in 1900, and died of TB on March 17, 1939, and most remaining pictures of her show a sickly woman. However, here are some photographs of her when she was quite healty:
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I was delighted to meet her neice Alice for the first time in many years at a recent family reunion. She brought along many pictures I'd never seen of the Fisher family, including this lovely photo of my grandmother and her brother, Clayton which is in the middle.
Beside the turn-of-the-last-century photo is a photo circa 1935 of Alice (straight haired), my mother (with those close-to-Shirley Temple curls) and Alice's brother Alan. And the last picture was taken in about 1932, with Uncle Clayton in the back, and, in the front, unknown on the left (a relative of Berta's, perhaps?), Aunt Berta in the middle, and Grammie Fisher on the right holding Alan. Alice is in the front looking...suspicious.
Alice and Alan's father, my great uncle, Clayton Fisher lived to be quite old, but we only saw him occasionally.