Following is the complete article on Philip Fishback that I had only partially transcribed and sent to the list previously: Philip Fishback was born in Alsace, then a province of France, about the year 1752, and his wife was a German woman. He was a Frenchman but spoke both German and French, though his children were taught in the latter language only. He came to America with the French soldiers under Lafayette, under whom he fought in the Revolution of 1776. At the close of that patriotic struggle he returned home and married his wife in the adjoining province of Loraine. He again entered the French service under Napoleon with whom he crossed the Alps, and under whom he fought for seven long years, for which he received a medal and an honorable discharge in addition to his meagre monthly stipend. He came to this country in the early part of the century and settled in Pierce township, where his children were born. They were George Fishback, the well known farmer near Olive Branch; Philip, residing at Cherry Grove, Hamilton county, and Jacob, who years ago went to the Pike's Peak country, besides two daughters, one of whom never married but the other married Mr. Gosnecht, whose two children live near Cincinnati. He having died, she again married a man at Seymour, Indiana. This old Napoleonic and Revolutionary veteran lived between the old Samie Wood's farm and Withamsville, where he died about 1850, nearly one hundred years old. The barrel of his old gun, which he carried in the campaigns of Napoleon in Germany and Italy, is in the possession of his son, George, in Batavia township, while the son, Philip, at Cherry Grove, has a paper discharge in French signed by the great Napoleon, testifying to Fishback's brave soldierly qualities, and recounting the many battles in which he participated. John Charles Tippet johntippet@cox.net