Adam Fisher was a farmer. He worked a large productive farm in Jasper Co, Ia near Greencastle where he had come with his parents as a young married man in 1857. His bride of that early day was Elizabeth Myers, a childhood neighbor and playmate in Indiana, daughter of Moses Myers. Elizabeth's sister Rosanna, married Adam's brother Benjamin.
Adam's first wife, Elizabeth died in 1867 at the age of 34 years. Then he returned to his birthplace in Indiana to marry another friend of his youth, Lydia Dill. She was the daughter of John and Rebecca Dill who lived down the road in Indians. Adam and Lydia were married in 1868. They returned to Iowa at once where Lydia undertook to mother Adam's two small sons. For forty-one years thereafter, she served them in that capacity, loyally and devotedly.
Adam and Lydia had one child of their own, Iola. She was born in 1871, and since she was the only daughter in the family she was the "apple of their eye." As she reached young womenhood she was sent to college in nearby Des Moines, the capital and largest city in the state. Here she majored in music, specializing in voice culture and singing. During an interlude in her studies while she was entertaining some friends and neighbors with her singing in her farm home one evening during the New Year's session of 1894, she collapsed and died that night of a hemorrhage of the throat. Iola was only 22 years old when she died and her death was a severe blow to her devoted parents.
