Indiagen, How did you get access to the 1880 Census for Samson Fisher? I'm trying to find out his parents names and birth dates to look up the info on them. The news about his parents being from Prussia is the first I've heard of old world relatives. Can you help? -Jeff >From: Indiagen@aol.com >Reply-To: FISHER-L@rootsweb.com >To: FISHER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [FISHER] Samson FISHER >Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:28:34 EDT > >In a message dated 07/22/2002 11:36:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >m_falcon33@hotmail.com writes: > > > > I'm looking for a > > GGG-Grandfather's Birth information a one Samson Fisher b.1834 who >settled > > in the Central Ohio area then later moved west to Missouri. I believe he > > was > > an itenerate farmer and possibly an orphan that was listed as a 12 year >old > > > > when he should have been 16 on an 1850 census under Daniel Miller's (59) > > household. > > > >First of all, have you checked the LDS site? They're at >www.familysearch.org. I find Samson Fisher listed there ... born 22 April >1834 in Ohio, died 31 Jan 1893 in Kansas City, Missouri. He married >Margaret >Allen Smith on 10 Jan 1854 in Highland County, Ohio. She died 18 May 1880 >in >St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. They had 11 children ... Isaac, >Ada, >Nora, John, Thomas, Laura, Samuel, Jacob, Myrtie, Ida and Charles. You can >also get the name and address of the submitter of this info. > >Second of all, ancestry.com has a listing in 1860 for a Sampson Fisher in >Highland County, OH (Hamer Township) ... but there's a glitch and I >couldn't >access that page. > >Thirdly, I have the 1880 census which I looked at for you. Samson Fisher >is >living in St. Joseph, MO, working as a carpenter, and the census states >that >both his parents were born in Prussia. It also states that his wife (who >had >died earlier that year) was born in Prussia. The listing is as follows: > >Samson Fisher - head - carpenter - age 46 - born Ohio. >Thomas Fisher - son - works on farm - age 23 - born Ohio. >John Fisher - son - works on farm - age 18 - born Ohio. >Samuel Fisher - son - works on farm - age 15 - born Ohio. >Laura Fisher - daughter - at school - age 8 - born Ohio. >Charles Fisher - son - at home - age 6 - born Indiana. >Murtie Pram - daughter in law - at home - age 2months - born Missouri. >John T. Pram - son in law - laborer - age 23 - born North Carolina. >Ida M. Pram - daughter - keeping house - age 17 - born Ohio. > >There's obviously an error here...Murtie Pram would be Ida and John's >daughter, and therefore Samson's granddaughter, not daughter-in-law. On >the >other hand, the info at LDS lists a daughter born to Samson and Margaret in >1880, named Myrtie. Someone's wrong somewhere. If Myrtie is Samson and >Margaret's daughter - then Margaret (who died in May) probably died as a >result of childbirth. But then Myrtie's last name would be Fisher. Hmmm. > >Hope this is of some help. >All the best and good luck, >India Penney > > >==== FISHER Mailing List ==== > ----------------- > You can unsubscribe by clicking below for the regular list: > mailto:FISHER-L-request@rootsweb.com > Click below for the digest list: > mailto:FISHER-D-request@rootsweb.com > In the BODY include only one word: unsubscribe > ----------------- > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx