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Note: ,BIOGRAPHICAL RECORDS
Source: Letter dated May 26, 1899 addressed to Etta Fisher
Clio Iowa, May 26, 1899
Dear Cousins one and all - I will try to answer your letter which I received about a weak ago. I was glad to hear from you and to hear you were all well. We are all well at present. I had about given up hearing from you at all. It has been very wet here all spring and is still wet. We have had a hard time to get eny thing planted, but my garden looks fine. I have got plenty of lettis and redishes and onions big anuf to eat. I have got my early Cabbage plants set out my late ones are just up good. Will has his ground all plowed but has just got it half planted. He thinks he will haft to plant it over. I have got 140 young chickens, 16 hens sitting. I have got 9 young turkeys and 17 eggs sitting. I oral to lett the old turkeys hens sit after while. You sayd you had your garden made. I would like to come over and take a look at your garden and chickens. You said you got so lonsom. I get so lonsom I don't know whatt to do with my self. Sometimes all the old neighbors have left but jonts. I walked over thare last weak for the first time Since they moved. We went over and called on Emersonn. He is as green as ever. John Edgeman have got a new boy. The folks that live on Elis Gartons place names are Nickelsom. She left home and was gone 3 weaks and said she had left but she come back. I have quilted one quilt and our going to quilt an other one they are talking of having children day up to the church. I have got a pet pig. He is fat and funy. I got me a new dress and Irma one and Burunett. I have not wore mine yet. I will send you a piece of them. The Black is mine and the brown is Irma the bleu is Burrnetts. Have you had the sick head ache any since you left? I would as soon come to your house as enyone I know of. What do you think of Albia as a town. Do you think it is a nice cuntry down there? Did you here of Dave Gish and Clory Shepard being in trouble? He was acquitted. The Lightning struck Ina Owens house but did not hurt eny of them. There was 10 in the house at the time. Ina had a sick spell a bout a month ago. She had a cojerive chill. She was affel sick but she is well now. But she has not gon to school eny yet. Murl has ben going fore weaks. Well I ges I will close for this time. Write soon and tell me all about what you are doing. From your friend and cousin s/Etta Owen
Source: Letter from Burnette Wishmeyer (daughter of Etta Shipley Owen - see letter above), Humeston, Iowa, September 1973
"Your grandfather was mother's first cousin and I think one of her favorites!"
Source: Memories of Fred Lewis Fisher about the life of his family, dictated to his daughter Maridell Fryar in June, 1971.
"The main thing I remember hearing my mother say about my father, Edward Clarence Fisher, was that he was a good man, but he wouldn't go to church. Every Sunday morning, he would hitch the buggy for Mother, and she would take the kids to church. When they got home, he would have Sunday dinner all ready for them."
Source: Conversation with Flo Fowler June 12, 1996
"My Dad was really helpful around the house. Momma would cut out shirts for the boys in the winter and he would stitch them up on the treadle sewing machine. He could cook, too. He took me everywhere with him. I remember once he took me to a funeral and a lady fainted. It scared me to death and I always remembered it. Momma worked right along beside Daddy in the field, even when she was pregnant. I stayed at the house and kept the babies and did the cooking."
In 1908, Daddy went to Kansas and found a big farm to rent. He came back and got us in Missouri. He made a bed in the back of the covered wagon, and the babies and I rode in it. Mother was pregnant with Edna, and she drove the spring wagon."
Source: Conversation with Flo Fowler, July 10, 1997.
"I remember that the day our Daddy died, we older kids were at school, and they came to get us and told us that Daddy was sick. But when we got home, he was dead. I was about 11, and I remember that they had to split Daddy's coat in order to put it on him for the casket because he had gained weight. We lived close to Lamar, KS, about 3 miles out of town. We went to the Christian Church, and I think that is where the funeral was. He was buried, maybe in the church cemetery. He didn't have a marker, just the little cardboard that the funeral home put up."
CENSUS RECORDS:
Source: 1900 Iowa, Monroe County, Union Twnshp, Dwelling #205, Fam #208
FISHER, Edward C. - Head, b. April 1871, age 29, m. 2 yrs; IA/MD/KY - farmer,
literate; rents farm Etta M., wife; b. June 1876, age 24, m. 2 yrs, mother of 1; IA/GER/IND Flo E., dau; b. Dec. 1899, age 5/12; IA/IA/IA Source: 1910 Census Kansas, Ottawa County, Sherman Township, ED 88, Sheet 3B, Line 3, enumerated 5 May 1910, copied by M. Fryar at the Kansas Historical Research Center, Topeka, KS, May 26, 2000.
Dwelling 43/Family 43
FISHER, Edward C. Head M W 38 Mar 11 yrs IA/MD/KY - farmer - employed - literate - rents farm - 40 acres
Ettie wife F W 34 Mar 11 yrs IA/Norway/IN - no trade - literate
Flo A. Daughter F W 10 Single IA/IA/IA - literate - attends school
Earl W. Son M W 8 Single IA/IA/IA - attends school Roy M. Son M W 6 Single IA/IA/IA - has not attended school William Son M W 3 Single MO/IA/IA Edna Daughter F W 1 Single KS/IA/IA DEATH CERTIFICATE
Source: Copy of certified death certificate from the State of Kansas; in possession of Maridell Fisher Fryar
"County: Ottawa ; Township: Sherman; City : Lamar;
Full Name: Edward C. Fisher
Male; White; Married
Date of Birth: April 29, 1871
Age: 40 years, 10 months, 26 days
Occupation: Farmer
Birthplace: Wapalo County, Iowa
Father: Thomas Fisher
Birthplace of Father: Unknown
Maiden Name of Mother: Elizabeth Mardis
Birthplace of Mother: Unknown
Signed: Mrs. E. C. Fisher
Address: Lamar, Kansas
Date of Death: March 26, 1912
I hereby certify that I attended deceased from....that I last saw him alive in January 1912 and that death occurred on the date stated above at 2 p.m. The cause of death was as follows: Eudocarditis with valvular heart lesion. Man dropped over and died in about 15 minutes. Contributory causes: rheumatism; 2 previous attacks. Signed.....Dr.?
Filed: Mar 29, 1912 O. E. Griesl Registrar
Undertaker: A. J. Culp Miltonvale, KS
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