NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11460 MERCER CO – WILLIAM W. FISHER – Fisher, Watson, Barker, Campbell 11460 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 807. Mercer Co. William W. Fisher (deceased) was a native of Kentucky, born in Mercer county May 28, 1808; he spent his boyhood days on a farm and came to Missouri with his parents in 1829. His father settled near New London in Ralls county, where he continued to reside until 1848, when he moved to Pike county. He was married to Miss Electa Watson, daughter of James Watson, who was a native of South Carolina and immigrated to Missouri in 1811; he built the first log cabin in Louisiana [MO]. Mrs. Fisher well remembers the first steamboat that ever landed at Louisiana; it was named the Pilot, and landed there in August, 1815. Mrs. Fisher remembers when the Indians were numerous in this part of the country. Her grandfather, Capt. John Barker, was a captain in the Revolutionary War. William W. Fisher was a farmer and stock-raiser; he moved to the farm which is now the old homestead in May, 1854, where he continued to reside until the time of his death, which occurred on the 9th of January, 1882, in his seventy-fourth year. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher raised a family of six children, five of whom are still living: Eliza Jane, died in 1876; James L., Barnett W.; Sarah E., now Mrs. Campbell; Joseph A., now in Texas; and John D. Mr. Fisher was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Fisher is also a member. The Fisher homestead consists of two hundred and fifty-five acres of excellent land, all finely improved and in pasture, with good buildings and all the conveniences appertaining to a substantial home. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx