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Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. (1812-1895) by Jackie L. Fisher 2011 Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. 2 Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. (1812-1895) Of Henry County, Iowa by Jackie L. Fisher Cephas A. Fisher Jr. was born in 1812 in Highland County, Ohio, the son of Cephas Fisher and Rachel Stanfield. He married Mary Hoskins and moved to Indiana, then settled in Henry County, Iowa. These Fishers were descended from Thomas Fisher and Elizabeth Huntley, of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Revised Edition 2011 Wimberley, Texas 3 Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. Copyright 2011 by J.L. Fisher Reproduction is permitted. Cover Photo: Dronfield Parish Church, Derbyshire Published by Bryce Engelhart, Engelhart Printing, Wimberley, Texas Site of Thomas Fisher‟s Marriage in 1713 Chester County, Pennsylvania 4 Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. Photo by J.L. Fisher, 2008 Emma Armer, a 12th-Generation Descendant of Thomas Fisher In Kennett (Pennsbury), at the north end of Thomas Fisher‟s 1701 land from William Penn. Photo by Jeff & Patrice Grossman, 2007 The Thomas Fisher house in West Brandywine, Pennsylvania, as it looked in 2007. The oldest part, built ca 1740, is in the center, with later additions at each end. 5 Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. 6 Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. Preface In 1968 we interviewed relatives, made a few searches, and distributed to our family a short “Fisher-Thornton Family History.” We had managed to discover and record our Texas and Oklahoma Fisher ancestry back to the Iowa Quaker Cephas Fisher, born in 1812 in Ohio, with parents somewhere in Pennsylvania. We had also identified several generations of our other Fisher ancestral branches, including the Long, Kelly, Van Tassel, Davis, Harp, Hartman and other families. At that point, we left off the research to concentrate on raising our children. In 1976, we obtained the newly-completed “Isaac Thornton (1817 - 1906), His Descendants and Some of His Forebears,” by Beatrice Thornton Keeling and Wanda Willard Smith, which traces the Thorntons to the English immigrant Hosea Thornton, born about 1695. In 1992, we resumed the Fisher research when our daughter, Laura Armer, discovered the genealogy of Cephas Fisher Sr. of Ohio, in the Mormon ancestral file. We soon established our connection from Cephas Fisher Jr. and began to locate and study additional sources in the Mormon family history catalog. We learned that our Fisher line had been studied before and was known back to Thomas Fisher and wife Elizabeth Huntley, in the early years of the Pennsylvania Colony. We began a new study and resolved to produce a new Fisher family history, documenting not only our Fisher relatives of the present and recent generations, but also telling the story of who our Fisher ancestors were and how they lived. We decided to include basic information on the Thorntons, but to leave the Thornton story to the Keeling-Smith book. In the Mormon family history catalog, we discovered genealogies done by William Logan Fisher in 1839, T. M. Potts in 1895, Anna Wharton Smith in 1896, B. F. Cummings in 1898, Pauline Leslie in 1960, and Thelma Fisher in 1978 which addressed the genealogy of the early Fishers of Pennsylvania. Pauline Leslie seems to have been the first to work out the descendancy from Thomas Fisher to the Ohio Fishers. We first studied the source records, verified that the descendancy from Thomas is provable, and scoured the records for details to take the story beyond the previous works. Then, in checking the ancestry proposed for Thomas, it became obvious that no one had correctly identified his parents. After several years of painstaking study, I believed in 1996 that I had found Thomas Fisher’s parents, who would be our ancestral immigrants, and produced the first edition of this book. I ruled out some of the published assertions and narrowed the possibilities for the ancestral connections. I now have accumulated much more information and have a better understanding of who Thomas Fisher might have been. I have removed most of the information that turned out not to be relevant to my line, and placed it in “The First Fishers of Pennsylvania.” For those who may want to see the larger collection of research notes, see “Searching for Thomas Fisher of Chester County, Pennsylvania.” In other volumes, we have shared all the old photographs we could locate for these families; and produced histories of the Francis Standfield, Samuel Standfield, and William Huntley families of Pennsylvania. As promised in 1996, we have placed the completed results of our research in the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Family History Library, at the Clayton Genealogical Library in Houston, Texas, and other places. The Mormon library catalog can be consulted at any of the numerous Mormon churches which have Family History Centers, or at the Mormon library at Salt Lake City, Utah. We now have a website which contains all of our findings and books, at www.cephasfisher.com. Jackie L. and Janice (Thornton) Fisher Laura and Barry Armer 500 Brinkley Drive 15007 Hollydale Wimberley, Texas 78676 Houston, Texas 77062 2011 7 Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. 8 Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. (1812-1895) of Henry County, Iowa and Allied Families (Revised Edition) Table of Contents Introduction 11 Generations I. Thomas Fisher Sr. 33 II. Thomas Fisher and Elizabeth Huntley 49 III. James Fisher Sr. and Alice Standfield 95 IV. James Fisher Jr. and Jane Atkinson 105 V. Cephas Fisher Sr. and Rachel Stanfield 115 VI. Cephas A. Fisher Jr. and Mary Hoskins 123 VII. Samuel Fisher and Effie Van Tassell 133 VIII. Florance Clinton Fisher Sr. and Grace Minett Long 141 IX. Woodford Pascal Fisher Sr. and Dorothy Berneice Kelly 147 X. Jackie Lynn Fisher and Janice Gayle Thornton 153 XI. Children of Jackie and Janice Fisher 155 XII. Grandchildren of Jackie and Janice Fisher 157 Appendix Proof of the Lineage 161 Genealogical Charts Fisher Pedigree Charts 163 Hoskins/Hodgekins/Van Tassel/Long/Harp/Smith PedigreeCharts 167 Atkinson Pedigree Chart 171 Kelly/Davis/Hartman/Green Pedigree Charts 173 Fisher Descendancy Chart 177 Branch Descendancy Charts 201 Thornton Descendancy Chart 231 Blackmon Descendancy Chart 237 References and Notes 241 Index 265 2011 9 Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr. 10
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