Person:George Fisher (41)

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CAME TO ME FROM TERESA EVANS WHO IS DECENDED FROM GRACE FISHER who was the daughter of George Lansing Fisher and Ella Smith, who was G. L. Fisher's 4th wife. Teresa in turn received this information from an aunt of hers, so originally this came from Mrs. Rodney S. Murty of Wild Rose, Wisconsin.

From Mrs. Noreen Woodworth, March 15, 1957: George Fisher was born in August of 1788. His parents (whose names are unknown to me) came from Pennsylvania either just before or shortly after his birth. He enlisted with the "Geneva Volunteers' on June 30, 1812, for a period of six months. He served as a Pri-Tate in the company of Captain Abraham Dox, 20th, Regiment (Allen's) New York militia. It appears that he was wounded at Lewiston and was honorably discharged on Oct. 31, 1812, but continued as a member of a semi-military organization.

Mrs. Noreen Woodworth, a decedent of Elizabeth (Betsey) and George Fisher learned a great deal about her ancesters from a cousin of her grandfather, who lived to be ninty years old. She had grown up "just down the road a piece" from George and Betsey and remembered them very well. The following paragraphs were composed by Mrs. Woodworth.

"The Fisher tribe were Methodists and took their religion very seriously. They were also Abolitionists. My great-great grandfather, George Fisher Jr. and Susan's husband, Truman Spencer, were among the group who met at Jackson, Michigan to organize the Republician Party in 1856. They both stumped through out the central counties campaigning for Lincoln. The grandparents of the wife of George Fisher Jr., had operated a 'station' on the underground railroad until the authorities caught up with them. Then they sold their farm in New York and moved to the wilds of Michigan where they set up a new station on their farm in Shiawassee County. "George and Betsey Fisher purchased a forty acre farm in Locke township, next to one owned by their eldest son, Robert. The boys build them a comfortable house with a 'spacious summer kitchen' and a good snug cellar. This cellar was Betsey's great pride. There were lots of shelves for her preserves and pickles, for the great wheels of cheese and for the golden squash and pie pumpkins. There were bins for the potatoes and apples. Here, too, were the bushels of walnuts, hickory nuts, and hazel nuts which grew in abundance in the woods around them. There were festoons of onions and dried peppers and most important of all was the great barrel of sauerkraut and the barrel lof salt pork to go with it. Ham and bacon and smoked German sausage were brought over, as needed, from Robert's big smoke house on the farm next door. "Robert, Peter V. and Samuel had large farms and kept the old folks well supplied with meat and vegetables. George Jr. furnished them with wood from his sawmill. Betsey had her own cow and chickens, and George had his pension from the war of 1812-1814, which took care of just about everything else they needed."

Friday September 26, 1879 Fowlerville Review Geo. Fisher Sr. was stricken with a stroke of apoplexy on Sunday afternoon last. His life is dispaired of.

We might want to check a place called Fishers Ferry in Pennsylvania, it is in Union County and might be a place to start to look for George Fisher seniors roots, as he supposedly went to New York as an infant, in fact either before or just after his birth from PA.