Samuel Fisher ^{2,47,90,101,102,103,104,108,120}

   General Notes:

-- (Newspaper clipping is undated, and does not show publishing source. From files of Marge Kientz.)

Samuel Fisher
Dies Saturday

Was an Old Resident of Lafayette
Township and Extensive Land Owner

Samuel Fisher, one of the old residents of Lafayette township died at his home near Freemont school house Saturday. Mr. Fisher had been in failing health for several weeks from the infirmities of age and while in this weakened condition he was attacked with pneumonia. From that time his decline was very rapid.

Samuel Fisher was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, May 16, 1825 and at the time of his death was 85 years, 6 months and 28 days old.

He was one of the most widely known farmers at Lafayette township, having lived there since the year 1853. He was married to Hannah Bowman in 1859 who survives him. He followed the trade of blacksmith in the early days and was known throughout the country for his physical prowess. He was a man of sterling character and of a disposition that made him beloved by all who knew him.

Surviving relatives are his wife, two sons, Ivester, living on the homestead, Henry, employed as engineer on the Pennsylvania out of Ft. Wayne, and two daughters, Mrs. Hugh McFadden of Aboite township, Mrs. Josiah Johnson of Ft. Wayne, and Mrs. Edn [Etta] Faulk [Foulks] of Lafayette township.

In addition to the above relatives the deceased is survived by nineteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

The funeral was held from the resident Wednesday at 10 o'clock and from the Methodist church at Roanoke at 11:30 a.m. Interment was made at the Odd Fellows cemetery.

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Fisher Family Recollections of Mabel (Foulks) Schmidt (1906-1998), as related to Marge Kientz. (Date unknown)

Samuel Fisher worked for Hannah Bowman's father. On the Fourth of July [1848], they all loaded into a wagon and went into Fort Wayne to celebrate. Hanna and Samuel slipped away to the court house and were married.

Ivester and Emma (married in 1886) lived first on Grandpa Fisher's (Samuel and Hannah) farm close to Aboite on Roanoke route. From there they moved to a mile north of Laud (north of Roanoke). From there they moved south of Roanoke on an Allred farm - then back north of Roanoke on a farm Ivester purchased. Then they moved into Roanoke in a house he purchased.

At this time, Ivester and Emma separated and Emma and Helen moved to Fort Wayne. Helen took the 8th grade in Fort Wayne - Miner School on Miner and DeWalt Street. Then Helen started to work at the Knitting Mills. Emma babysat for Florence - they lived with Florence and Hank when they first moved to Fort Wayne. Then Emma and Helen moved back to Roanoke for a summer. Then Emma bought a house - 1030 Swinney Ave. There were 2 light housekeeping apartments and 2 sleeping rooms upstairs.

Emma died in January (1924) and Helen stayed on at Swinney St. Florence and Hank (Florence and Henry Peters, Emma's youngest daughter and son-in-law) and their family lived at this address also. Helen married in March. The year Emma & Ivester lived at Laud was the year Irma died (1913). They went to the funeral in a carriage - two seated buggy.

One time when the family of Emma and Ivester was young, they were fighting upstairs after they had gone to bed. Ivester went upstairs and quieted them. He paddled one of them. When he came downstairs, Emma asked him who he paddled. He said, "Marion, of course." Emma called upstairs and said, "Linnie, who did Pa paddle?" Linnie answered "Meeee!"

There were two houses on the Fisher farm. The one Ivester and Emma lived in was located 1/2 mile back a lane. Ivester left the family farm because of Henry Fisher, his brother. Mabel Schmidt said she always heard that Henry caused this. He wasn't satisfied with the way Ivester was running the farm, evidently.

Eva, daughter of Ivester and Emma stayed with Hannah and Samuel to help them.

After Mary Luetta Foulks was separated from her husband (1907) Samuel Fisher told her she could not stay by herself and for her to move back home with him and Hannah. Mabel (born 1906) grew up in the home of Samuel and Hannah. She remembers many stories told in the home. She remembers hearing how they came to Indiana on the canal. She remembers Samuel telling that the first Fisher to come to America, came on a cattle boat from Holland.

Ivester raised racing horses, sheep and black Angus cattle. His breeding start of cattle - he went back to Ohio to get. One of the cows had a red calf just before Etta married her husband (a red head) and the calf was given to Etta (1903).

Mom (Helen Forrest) always got the black lambs. When Ivester's girls were married, they each received a cow.

Samuel Fisher built his new home with money he inherited from his brother James, who was murdered in Kansas.

Ida Fisher taught school - she was a sister of Ivester.

Ivester was called Ivy.
Sarah Crawford was called Sade.
Molly was Mary Elizabeth.
Samuel Fisher was called Pap by his children.
Sade had bobbed hair, which was unusual for the time. This was because she had severe headaches.

   Marriage Information:

Samuel married Hannah A. Bowman, daughter of Henry Bowman and Harriet Jane Armstrong, on July 4, 1848 in Ft. Wayne, Allen County, Indiana ^90,101. (Hannah A. Bowman was born on May 12, 1835 in Ohio, died on February 1, 1922 in Lafayette Township, Allen County, Indiana and was buried in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Ft. Wayne, Indiana.)

   Marriage Notes:

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