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Source: James S. Fisher
Author: James S. Fisher

      FISHER FAMILY
 

In 1985 James S. Fisher published a history of the Fisher family, which is 
connected to
our own Coontz/Fisher genealogy.  The book is a compendium of 666 pages of 
which 92 
pages comprise the Master Index. “The Legacy of Adam Fisher ( -1757)” 
represents 
many years of research and correspondence with descendants of *ADAM FISHER 
Although the material is of great help to family historians, there is no 
bibliography to 
indicate verification of the vital records.

Several family histories state that *ADAM FISHER was born in Germany and 
came in 
1741-42 “in the good ship Mary Ann”.  I have not been able to find any 
information to 
support or refute the claim.

The sheer number of Fishers who traveled to America is one reason for the 
lack of 
documented research other than family records in James Fisher’s compilation 
of the 
family history.  There were three Fisher families in the United States who 
sought 
European fortunes in the 1890s, all centered around an *ADAM FISHER who shot 
a deer 
out of season and was forced to leave his homeland and potential inheritance 
because of 
his infraction. The same story of relinquished wealth appears in many 
different family 
histories and always involved noblemen and great estates.
 
James S, Fisher explains the background of the hunt for the Fisher fortune 
in the first 
twenty pages of his book.  However, he states that there probably wouldn’t 
be any family 
chronology at all if Fisher families throughout the country hadn’t decided 
to participate in 
seeking their part of the fortune of a nobleman in Germany by compiling 
their unique 
family histories. The Fisher search for family fortune probably had some 
bearing on the 
annual Fisher family reunions in Sedalia, Pettis Co., MO and other nearby 
Missouri 
locations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. On 10 Jan. 1891 the 
Missouri  
Fishers met at Tipton, Moniteau Co., MO to organize a committee to meet with 
the Ohio, 
Indiana and Kentucky Fishers in Cincinnati, Ohio on 22 Jan. to plan a claim 
to the Fisher 
fortune. Among the group were Trustin Fisher and Philip Adair of Versailles, 
MO. 
  
In the early 1970s I began to collect records I believed would help in my 
own family 
research.  In 1983 I paid for a computerized printout of Fishers consisting 
of the Federal 
censuses nationwide from 1790 to 1810, plus tax and petitioner’s lists and 
county 
censuses as early as the 1750s. I was surprised to receive a computerized 
list totaling 
6,000 names. Perhaps the sheer magnitude of my request was why I received 
notification 
from Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc. that mine was the last computer 
database they 
would run on an individual request. 

Throughout this family history, I have indicated direct ancestors with 
asterisks and 
capital letters. The name “Trustram” or ”Trustin”, etc. appears quite often 
and has been 
spelled rather freely. It is possible that originally the name was 
“Tristram”, one of the 
Knights of the Round Table.  Like many of the Fisher family names, it was 
repeated 
through the generations. I will attempt to spell the name as “Trustin” 
throughout the 
family history, except when it has been quoted, as it seems to be the most 
used spelling,
 
      
				           GENERATION I
       	           ADAM FISHER

James S. Fisher cites portions of an autobiography written 24 June 1864 by 
David Fisher 
as the most possible scenario of our *ADAM FISHER ancestor:

“ ‘My grandfather, Adam Fisher, landed in Philadelphia, Pa., moved back into 
the 
country, ran through all his father gave him in a few years, started back to 
Germany, took 
the small pox in Philadelphia, became blind and returned back to the country 
again and 
there died when my father, Adam Fisher (Jr.) who was the youngest son, was 
seven years 
old.  This was in 1757. My father was born in 1750. My father had three 
older brothers, 
Jacob, Daniel and Abraham, who had numerous families.  Those three uncles of 
mine all 
lived in the Shenandoah Valley, Augusta County, Virginia, near Staunton. I 
don’t know, 
but I fear that some of my cousins and many of their children are this day 
traitors to their 
country, while two of my sons are in the Federal Army patriotically fighting 
for their 
government.  My father had NO sisters in this country. ‘ ” 

				         GENERATION II
			          THE FOUR SONS OF ADAM I

Our Coontz/Fisher/Gehlken line is descended from *ADAM’s oldest son, 
*ABRAHAM. 
A great grandson of *ADAM, *TRUSTIN FISHER, born in 1831, wrote his own one 
page family history beginning:

“Abraham Fisher, Sr. is said to have had four sons, Jacob, Daniel, Abraham 
and Adam.  
My great Grandfather’s name was Abraham and his children were as follows: 
Calep, 
Truston, Prudence, Polly, Mahalah, Cecil, Racheal and Milcha, who were 
twins.” 

I have a family “Fisher Tree” which indicates the four sons were Lewis, 
Daniel, Abraham 
and Adam. The family tree has a notation, which reads “Lewis Fisher, born in 
Penn., 
settled in Culpepper Co., VA, left will concerning German estate.” Lewis 
Fisher, 
according to the chart, had three sons, Stephen, Barnett, and Adam. All 
three names were 
prevalent in Mercer Co., KY records. However, our purpose is to pursue the 
lineage of 
*ABRAHAM.

*ABRAHAM, according to family historian James S. Fisher, was born about 
1730, 
probably in Germany. His brother Jacob was born about 1742, David in 1745, 
and Adam 
in 1750.   In 1789 there were two Abraham Fisher’s, one who lived in 
Rockingham Co, 
VA and owned 54 acres of land and probably was “the same Captain Abraham 
Fisher of 
Martin Weaver’s Company, 4th Battalion of the Lancaster County Militia in 
1778”.  The 
other Abraham lived in Prince George County, Maryland. He is probably the 
individual 
listed in Anne Arundel Co. in 1755, Prince George in 1776, and Washington 
Co., in 1778 
as having participated in a “Fidelity Oath”, and as a “non-petitioner in 
“Flying Camp, 
Maryland” in affidavits and muster roles found in pension applications.  
Descendants 
have not been able so far to determine which “Abraham” is of our line of 
descent.

After his father died, *ABRAHAM probably took over the job of head of the 
family. He 
married *RHODA LAYTON in 1773 according to family records. More information 
follows.

Jacob Fisher, second son of the immigrant, moved to Franklin Co., VA where 
some of his 
children were born before the Revolutionary War.  He had four sons and two 
daughters.  
Jacob’s second wife was Mary M. Bish, born in Pendleton, Franklin Co., VA in 
1734. 
Jacob married Mary Bish in Franklin in 1770.   Jacob died in 1785 and his 
wife settled 
the estate in 1786. Mary Bish Fisher died 1 Nov. 1823 in Franklin Co. 

Daniel Fisher, third son of the immigrant, married Nancy Ann Jones in 1777.  
Nancy was 
the sister of Susannah Jones, wife of his brother, Adam Fisher, Jr.  James 
S. Fisher cites 
family historian Betty McAlister Johns’ notes: “ ’ In 1788 (the year George 
Washington 
was elected first President of the new United States of America, Daniel and 
Nancy Fisher 
came to Augusta County (VA) from Rockingham County and bought 273 acres on 
Christian Creek in Beverly Manor… their land was in the area where Route 250 
now 
crosses Christian Creek between Staunton and Fishersville’ “. Of their 
seventeen 
children, five died at an early age.  Daniel died in 1817. The 1810 census 
of Augusta, VA 
lists Daniel and other Fishers who I did not try to sort out to determine 
relationships.

Adam Fisher, Jr., youngest son of the immigrant, was born in Pennsylvania 29 
Sept. 
1750. His will was written 14 Oct. 1826 and he died in Clermont Co., Ohio 7 
May 1827.   
James S. Fisher cites autobiographies of his sons who wrote that when Adam, 
Jr. was 
seven years old and his father had died, the family was destitute.  Adam was 
bound out to 
a tobacconist who almost starved him, then to a blacksmith who “nearly beat 
him to 
death”. He ran away and eventually became a blacksmith near Hagerstown, 
Maryland.  
James S. Fisher indicates in “The Legacy of Adam Fisher” that Adam served in 
the 
Revolutionary War for 18 months and re-enlisted for a year. Indeed, he was 
commissioned in July 1777 as Adjutant of Lancaster Co. Militia and in 1779 
and served 
as lieutenant of the Sixth Company. He has been honored by the Daughters of 
the 
American Revolution in their document #11286. Adam married Susanna Jones in 
1777, 
the daughter of David Jones, a Welshman of Hagerstown, MD. About 1797 Adam 
and 
Susannah and their nine children came down the Ohio River to Portsmouth, 
Scioto Co., 
Ohio. James S. Fisher relates that Adam and his family crossed the Ohio 
River, settled in 
Kentucky for a time, and by 1800 were in their permanent home on Indian 
Creek in 
Clermont Co., Ohio, across the river again. 

*ABRAHAM and *RHODA were my husband, Leland I. Coontz’ Jr.’s direct 
ancestors. 
The family had lived in frontier areas, so what they found in Missouri was 
not entirely 
new to them. All their children, except one, made their way to the mid-
central counties of 
Morgan, Moniteau, and Cooper, Missouri. In writing a family history it is 
often difficult 
to find accounts of how people conducted their daily lives in an era of long 
ago, so it 
seems appropriate to introduce the succeeding generation with a bit of 
historical 
background.

In “The History of Morgan Co.”, by A. G. Baker there are some recollections 
of early 
times. John Salmon, who born in South Carolina in 1836, came to Morgan 
County in 
1840 and lived there until 1883, related his memories: 

“My father came to Versailles in 1840 and lived here two years.  At that 
time there was 
but one house between here and California, Missouri.  Versailles was simply 
a hamlet. I 
could have gone to every house in town in an hour.”

He described the businesses in town as a dry goods and grocery, tavern, 
blacksmith, and 
gristmill. Versailles was on the stage and wagon line. Salmon remembered 
seeing a string 
of wagons a quarter of a mile long loaded with lead from Granby and Joplin 
and
bound for Jefferson City. Goods and wares were furnished to Versailles 
merchants from 
Boonville and Jefferson City by ox teams and all the produce from the area 
was hauled to 
Boonville. Boating was prominent on the Osage River for the delivery of 
goods between 
Boonville and Springfield. 

According to Salmon, there were no church buildings until the Methodists 
built the first 
house of worship. Preachers were circuit riders traveling through the area 
to perform their 
Christian services. There were no secret societies and the few Masons went 
to Boonville 
to attend lodge meetings. The schoolhouse was a small log house and the 
first school was 
the old log courthouse. 

A horse for sale would bring thirty dollars, while a cow and calf would 
bring ten dollars. 
The price for dressed pork was two to three dollars a barrel. Two venison 
hams would 
bring ten to fifteen cents while dressed wild turkeys would bring ten cents.  
There was no 
market for eggs. All kinds of meat animals were butchered and packed and 
nothing was 
sold on foot. “The corn was gathered in the fall and piled up in a heap and 
the neighbors 
called in to help shuck it out.  Then followed a feast and a frolic.”

According to other accounts, Morgan Co. had a political life. Trustin 
Fisher, Sr. was a 
Judge of the Court in 1833 and 1836 and a representative in the State 
Legislature in 1834.

A hundred years later, during the Great Depression, the U. S. Government 
created a 
number of employment opportunities.  One of importance to historians was the 
writers 
program of the Works Projects Administration (WPA). The Missouri guide was 
entitled, 
“Missouri – A guide to the “Show Me” State”. Similar to other state guides, 
it covered 
every aspect of the state, from “History and Government”, “People and 
character”, 
“Archaeology”, “Industry, Commerce and Labor”, “The Arts”, “Religion” tours 
throughout the region with descriptions of each city and town and more.

Even though the book describes the Missouri of about seven decades ago, the 
descriptions are apt today.  “The people of Missouri keep their heritage in 
play-art games, 
candy pullings, pie socials, and box suppers and wiener roasts.” The family 
reunions, 
Sunday school picnics, and county fairs are an example.  Housewives have 
continued to 
bring their produce from fields and orchards and their kitchens to the 
county fairs.  My 
husband’s Mother, Lavina Coontz, a Fisher family descendant, was a long time 
judge of 
baked goods and homemade ice cream in the annual Sedalia, MO State Fair.

Versailles, whose name evolved during the French occupation, is the seat of 
Morgan 
County, north of the Lake of the Ozarks towns.  Typical of the way 
Missourians speak, 
Versailles is not pronounced as the French would – it is pronounced “Ver-
sales”. Anglo-
American families from Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia began settling in 
the area 
about 1820, building water- powered mills.  Timber, furs, farm produce and 
lead were 
shipped down the Osage River and early highways. Hunters, trappers and 
traders 
regularly traveled the river.  In 1858 the Missouri Pacific Railroad arrived 
in the northern 
part of the county and eventually contributed to many changes in the nature 
of the towns. 
After the Civil War Swiss and German families came in great numbers to farm.

Tipton in Moniteau Co., a sister area to Morgan Co., was the starting point 
for the 
Overland Mail and was briefly the terminus of the Pacific Railroad in 1858. 
During the 
Civil War, unlike other parts of Missouri, Tipton was fairly quiet. It was, 
of course, the 
location of a number of the Fisher marriages and site of burials.  

I note that a number of Fishers were Baptists. The WPA account of Missouri 
indicates 
that the Baptists and Methodists were the most successful on the frontier. 
The Baptists 
adapted to the frontier dislike of salaried ministers and formal theology, 
while the 
Methodist doctrine of “’free grace, free will, and individual 
responsibility’” appealed to 
the independent nature of Missourians.

The old Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery in Moniteau (formerly Morgan Co.) is 
the 
resting place for some of the Fishers and related families of Porter and 
Snorgrass and 
slaves are buried in a part of the cemetery. The location of the cemetery, 
thirteen miles 
north of Versailles, Mo., was in Cooper Co. before 1833 and before Morgan 
Co. was 
organized. Later the county of Moniteau was organized in the area. The 
records have 
disappeared, many of the stones are broken, and lettering cannot be 
deciphered.  In an 
account of churches in pioneer times there is a description of Reverend 
Akin, a moderator 
of the Baptist Association in 1848 at Freedom Baptist Church, who served Old 
Liberty 
from 1867-1868.   Like most ministers in the area, he could be described as 
a circuit 
rider. “Reverend Akin had dark hair, was big of stature, and rode horse back 
to area 
churches, carrying his Bible, to the places he served in Morgan, Moniteau 
and adjoining 
counties.” 

Historical accounts of the counties of Cooper, Moniteau, and Morgan don’t 
always 
present satisfactory accounts of how people lived. One revealing manuscript, 
“Cooper 
County, Missouri, Book of Strays – Book B“ from November 1828 to December 
1833 is 
in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of 
Columbia.  To quote 
from one historian, “In the days before wire fences or even split rail 
fences, animals were 
allowed to roam free on the owner’s land.  As a result, horse, cows, hogs 
and sheep were 
often ‘lost and found items.’” People would advertise finding a stray animal 
and if no one 
came to claim the animal it was a case of “finders keepers”. In Cooper 
County a person 
would notify the Justice of the Peace where the animal was found.  A 
description was 
provided, two people would appraise the animal’s value and the county clerk 
noted the 
information. At the end of a year the person who found the animal would pay 
one-half 
the appraisal value of the animal to the county treasurer. Boundaries 
change, but some of 
the names and names of neighbors as witnesses are helpful.  In the eleven 
page 
document, here are two of the citations as examples: “15 Jan. 1830 Cow and 
calf taken up 
by Fines Adair of Clear Creek Township” and  “27 Dec. 1830 Brown colt taken 
up by 
Isaac Smith of Lamine Township and appraised by Jacob Fisher and James 
Flack.”

The Fishers were essentially farmers, and hopefully these pictures of the 
times in which 
they lived will round out the family history.


				       GENERATION II
                    CHILDREN OF *ABRAHAM and *RHODA LAYTON FISHER

*ABRAHAM FISHER, the oldest son and our family’s ancestor, married *RHODA 
LAYTON, who was born in Virginia about 1773. They settled near Staunton, VA 
after 
their marriage.  According to James S. Fisher and a story I heard before, 
they went to 
Yanceville, Guilford Co., NC during their later years to live with their 
family and were 
buried there. Another story was that they were buried in Indian Creek, 
Clermont, Ohio, 
where *ABRAHAM’s younger brother, Adam, died in 1817. Perhaps confusion was 
created because of the two counties with the name,“Rockingham”. *ABRAHAM 
lived in 
New Haven, Rockingham Co., VA in 1810, while his son, Caleb is listed in the 
Salisbury, 
Rockingham, NC census in 1800. There is little question that *ABRAHAM spent 
some 
time in North Carolina, because a number of his children listed North 
Carolina as their 
place of birth, however it has been difficult to locate him in any census. 
The family story 
goes that *ABRAHAM and *RHODA, who visited with their children in 
Yanceville, 
Guilford Co., NC, were also buried there. I contacted the Deputy Register of 
Deeds in 
Guilford Co., NC in 1983, who checked land records from 1771-1921 and other 
records 
and found none in the Fisher name. Abraham had eight children, Prudence, 
*CALEB, 
Trustin, Mary, Mahala, Celia, Rachel, and Milcha.

II.1. Prudence Fisher, born about 1780 in North Carolina married David 
Strader. In the 
Caswell Co., NC Will Book 1777-1784, I discovered David Strader’s will of 21 
Jan. 
1826. The will states that “Wife Prudence Strader and son Henry to get all 
property, 
already received, daughter Mahala French (property already given to her}, 
sons Lewis 
and John all that has been given to them. After death of wife remainder to 
all children, 
daughter Mahala, son William C., daughter Zephereah Strader, son John: Exec. 
Josiah 
Womack, Joseph E. Cobb, and Benjamin Elmore. Wit. J. Womack, Jon K. Cobb, 
Garland 
Blackwell, Benj. Elmore, S. C. Cobb. “ 

The next time I located Prudence Strader, age 70, was in the 1850 census of 
Rockingham 
Co., NC with John Strader, age 21, who was working as a laborer in the 
household of 
James and Mahala French and family. 

II.2. *CALEB FISHER, born in 1775 in VA, married *MARY HEITHER in 1793 in 
Maryland. *MARY was born 1773-75 in Maryland. *CALEB is listed in the 1800 
census 
of Salisbury, Rockingham, N.C., with one male under 10, one 16-25 ( which 
would be 
Caleb’s category), two females under 10, one 10-15, and his wife at 16-25. 
By 1810 and 
1820 Caleb is in the censuses of Mercer Co., Kentucky and later in 1830 in 
the census of 
Cooper Co., MO. He died in 1845 and is buried in Liberty Cemetery. Moniteau, 
MO.  
Caleb and Mary had seven children, Abraham, William, Henry, Trustin, 
Richard, Rhoda, 
and Margaret

II.3. Trustin Fisher (Sr.) born about 1770 in North Carolina, married 
Catherine Golden in 
1802 in Rockingham Co., VA. In the 1850 census, she indicates she was born 
in KY, 
about 1779. By the 1810 census, Trustin is in Mercer Co., KY along with many 
other 
Fishers (Caleb- Calob), Stephen, Elizah or Eliaz, Benjamin, Joseph, Bennet, 
and Adam). 
In Mercer Co. there were a number of petitions presented and/or signed by 
Fishers and 
delivered to the General Assembly of Virginia during the period 1769-1792 
and Fishers 
remained in Kentucky long after our family had left for Missouri. The 
Kentucky Fishers 
deserve their own study because they are prolific. Some genealogists claim 
their heritage 
as far back as 1760 in Culpepper Co., VA, the stomping ground of that 
“other” son of 
*ADAM, the immigrant, Lewis Fisher. 

Trustin is said to have been buried in Liberty Cemetery, Tipton, MO. 
Catherine Fisher, 
Trustin’s widow, was living with her son, John B. Fisher in the 1850 census 
of Moniteau 
Co. MO. John B. Fisher, their only child, was born April 15, 1803 in North 
Carolina.  He 
married Elizabeth Stinson 28 Dec. 1825 in Cooper Co., MO. She was born 17 
Feb. 1808 
and died 12 Feb. 1849. John B. Fisher and Elizabeth had five children, James 
and Alfred 
who appear to be twins, Jane, Edward, Elizabeth, and Emma, who were living 
with their 
father and their grandmother, Catherine Golden Fisher in the 1850 census of 
Moniteau 
Co., MO. 

Their son, John B. Fisher, had a family of six slaves. By 1860 there was 
only one slave, a 
female age 35. John died 30 Aug. 1864 and he and his wife Elizabeth were 
both buried in 
Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery, Moniteau, MO. 

II.4. Mary Fisher, born 1780 in North Carolina, married in 1800 in 
Rockingham, NC to 
Samuel Driscoll, born in 1777. Her children are supposed to be William, 
Robert, Cindy, 
and John, however there are no additional details. Some believe her husband 
was Moses 
Driskill, who was in Rockingham, NC on the 1840 census, age 70 – 80. 
However, Moses’ 
wife was Margaret. Moses died in 1845 in Rockingham. The Samuel Driskill in 
the 1850 
census in Morgan Co. was the pastor of the Flat Creek Baptist Church in 
Pettis Co. from 
1853-1865. He was born in N.C. His wife was Isabella Dudley. Another Samuel 
Driskill, 
age 54 and born in NC, was in Dist. 5 of Barry, MO in 1850 with wife 
Elizabeth. The 
hunt goes on to find what happened to Mary Fisher. 

II.5. Mahala Fisher, born about 1779 in Maryland was listed in the 1830 
census as Head 
of Household in Cooper Co., MO with one male age 20-30, one female 10-15, 
two 
females age 15-20, and one age 20-30 and Mahala at 50-60. Mahala is listed 
in the 1840 
census as Head of Household in Richland, Morgan Co., MO with four females; 
two ages 
5-10 and two ages 20-30.  She is buried in Liberty Cemetery, Tipton, 
Moniteau, MO. 
There is a proliferation of Allens in MO and no one has come forward with 
Mahala’s 
husband’s name.

II.6. Celia (Cecelia) Fisher. No further information.

II.7. Rachel Fisher, born about 1783 in Maryland, married Furniss Adair, 
born 15 Aug. 
1785 in Bolton, MD. Furniss settled in No. Carolina, traveled to Tenn., on 
to Green Co., 
KY, then to Howard Co., MO in 1810. By 1850, Furniss and Rachel are in 
Richland Twp, 
Morgan Co. MO. Rachel died in 1855 and is buried in Liberty Cemetery, 
Tipton, 
Moniteau, MO. Furniss Adair’s will, dated 11 Mar. 1855 is in Morgan Co., MO, 
Will 
Book, p. 81. Furniss and Rachel had a number of children: Trustin, Major, 
Stephen, 
William, Malinda, Annetta, Catherine, John, Nancy, Furniss, Rachel, and 
Julia. 

II.8. Milcah Fisher, probably born about 1783 in Maryland (mentioned as twin 
of 
Rachel), married a Dill. The only information I was able to find was in the 
Caswell Co., 
NC Will Book 1777-1843.  An Inventory and Sale of property of Archy and 
Miliah Dill, 
in 5 Jan. 1842, included several Dills: David, James, Joseph, and John. 
There are a 
number of Dills in Morgan Co., MO who may or may not be direct descendants.


                                               GENERATION III

           CHILDREN OF *CALEB FISHER AND *MARY HEITHER

 III.1.  Rhoda Fisher, born about 1795 in North Carolina, married Turner 
Blassengame, 
born about 1792 in North Carolina. They married 31 May 1813 in Warren Co., 
KY and 
he died before 1828 in MO. In Kentucky marriage records, Turner’s name is 
shown as 
Blasingham. Rhoda has been difficult to find in records, probably because 
the name 
Blassengame is daunting. I was able to find a reference to the name in an 
1865 listing of 
taxpayers in Morgan Co. MO. In the 1860 census of Richland, Morgan Co. is a 
listing for 
Thomas Blasengym, born about 1818 in KY, with wife Susan, daughter Sarah, 
and sons 
William and Trustin. Trustin Blasengym shows up again in the 1880 census, 
however any 
additional information regardiing the family has been unsuccessful. Thomas 
is 
undoubtedly a son of Rhoda and Turner.

III.2. Abraham Fisher II, born about 1797 in North Carolina, probably 
Rockingham Co., 
married Martha Ketura “Kit” De Grafenreid Durham  on 6 Mar. 1819 in Allen 
Co., KY. 
Martha was the daughter of Henry Durham and Sarah Conway. She was born about 
1802 
in North Carolina and all of her descendants filed applications for Cherokee 
Indian 
money.  They had at least eleven children, born in Kentucky, Cooper and 
Morgan Co., 
MO and probably other parts of MO. Abraham died in 1876 in Lawrence Co., MO 
and 
Martha died in 1876 in the same county.  There has been a great deal of 
discussion over 
the years regarding Martha’s string of names. However, in the 1850 census of 
Sarcoxie 
Twn., Jasper Co., MO, Abraham is listed with his wife Martha, their 
children, and two 
elderly women. One is *MARY FISHER, Abraham’s mother,  and *MARY HEITHER 
FISHER, age 77. Also residing with them is Martha G. De Graffenreid, age 79, 
born in 
VA. Her relationship has not been understood.  In “Rejected Pensions of the 
Revolutionary War” is the notation, “Degrafenried, Martha, widow of Vincent, 
Springfield, Green Co. MO. Name not on the rolls of VA state troops. 
Marriage not 
proven”. In researching on Roots Web on the Internet, I discovered a 
reference to 
Revolutionary War Soldiers from VA who “stayed for a time in Rockbridge”. 
Among 
them were Tscharner Degraffenreid from Williamsburg, VA and Vincent 
Degraffenreid 
from Lunenberg and Halifax Co., VA. 

III.3. *HENRY FISHER, born about 1802 in North Carolina, married *Nellie 
Eleanor 
Gabriel (also knows as Eleanor, Ellen, Ellender, and Nellie) on 13 Dec. 1827 
in Cooper 
Co., MO. *HENRY died sometime between 1841 and 1845 probably in Morgan Co., 
MO. In the 1850 Morgan Co. census, Richland township, his wife is Head of 
Household, 
and is listed as *ELLENDER with six children, John, the oldest at 21, 
Trustin 18, and 
Nancy, Caleb, William, and Ellender. Next door is Daniel Gabriel whose wife 
was 
another daughter of *HENRY, Mary Fisher Gabriel.  In the 1860 census in 
Morgan Co. 
Ellender was in Moreau township, Versailles P.O. and this time she was 
listed as Nellie 
Fisher, “managing the farm.  She was born about 1813 in Kentucky, perhaps 
Logan Co.

*”Ellender” Fisher died 4 July 1873 in Morgan Co., MO at 68 years, 2 mos., 
26 days and 
is buried at Freedom Church Cemetery, Versailles, Morgan Co., MO. 

There is an interesting story about the Gabriel family in the “History of 
Cooper County” 
by W. F. Johnson. A John Gabriel from Kentucky, settled at Richland Twp., 2 
1/2 miles 
E. of Florence abut 1819 or 1820. He had a distillery in Cooper Co., made 
whiskey and 
sold it to the Indians. He was murdered in his horse lot by a negro who was 
hanged. The 
man confessed he had been employed by Gabriel’s own son-in -law, Abner 
Weaver.  
Weaver was later shot in Texas where he had stolen horses. 

III.4. William Fisher, born about 1804 in North Carolina, married Eliza 
Smith, born about 
1807 in North Carolina, on 25 Dec.1827 in Cooper Co., Mo. He died in 1845 
and his wife 
as Head of Household is listed in the 1850 census of Sarcoxie Township, 
Jasper, MO. In  
1860 she was in Lamar, Barton Co., MO.  They had six children, Henry, Rhoda 
J., Polly 
A., Louisa, Adaline, and Elizabeth.  

III.5. Truston Fisher, born 24 Feb. 1805 in Kentucky, married #1 Margaret 
Gist on 19 
Mar. 1829 in Cooper Co., MO. She was the daughter of Benjamin Gist.  When 
Benjamin 
Gist died about 1844 in Moniteau Co., MO. he named his children in his will, 
including 
“Margaret Gist, wife of Thruston Fisher”. Trustin and Margaret had seven 
children. 
Elizabeth, Avery, Eliza, Julia, Benjamin, Rhoda, and John. Margaret Fisher 
died 4 Feb. 
1849 and he married #2 Elizabeth Brashear 11 April 1850 in Moniteau, MO as 
his second 
wife. They settled in Richland Twp. in Morgan Co., MO along with all seven 
children. In 
1860 they were in Mill Creek Twp. in Morgan Co., Syracuse P.O. and another 
child, 
Mary, born in 1851 had been added. Trustin died 21 April (July) 1863 and is 
buried in 
Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery, Moniteau, MO. 

III. 6. Richard Fisher, born about 1810 in Kentucky, married Betsy 
(Elizabeth) Summers,  
in Morgan Co. MO on 24 Oct. 1835. She was born about 1811 in KY. Richard is 
listed in 
Jasper Co., Sarcoxie Township in 1850 with his wife, Elizabeth and five 
Fisher children, 
William, Martha, Caleb, Allen, and Nancy.  In addition, are Abram Mounts age 
5 and 
William Mounts age 17. In 1860 the family was in Lamar, Barton, MO with 
Caleb, Allen, 
Nancy and Abraham. By 1870 it is presumed Betsy has died. Richard is living 
with his 
son Allen and wife along with Richard’s son Abram, in Mc Donald Twp., 
Carthage, MO.

III. 7. Margaret “Peggy” Fisher, born about 1817 in Kentucky, married 
Asberry (Berry) 
Durham 5 Aug. 1832 in Cooper Co., MO.  He was born about 1805. Their six 
children 
were Henry, Rhoda J., Polly A., Louisa, Adaline and Elizabeth. They are 
listed in the 
1850 census of Sarcoxie, Jasper, MO and the 1860 census of Neosho, Newton, 
MO. 
Berry died in 1870 in Mills, IA according to family.	
 			

                                               GENERATION IV

    CHILDREN OF *HENRY FISHER AND *NELLIE ELEANOR GABRIEL

IV. 1. John Fisher, born about 1830, in Missouri, married Rebecca F., born 
in North 
Carolina in 1838.  Her maiden name is not known, but the “F” in her name is 
carried into 
the name of one of her children. Their children were William, Sarah, and 
Mary F.  In 
1860 the family was living Morgan Co., MO. in Moreau Twp. 

IV 2. *TRUSTIN FISHER born 25 Feb. 1831 in MO married on 18 (August) 
September 
1853 in Morgan Co., MO to  *MARY JANE HALL, born 26 Nov. 1836 in Indiana 
according to her death certificate.  *MARY JANE was the daughter of *HENRY 
HALL, 
born in Alabama, according to the Fisher family, and *NANCY MOCK.  A *HENRY 
HALL is listed in the 1840 census of Morgan Co. next to a Daniel Mock. *MARY 
JANE 
MOCK FISHER’s death certificate 18 Nov. 1918 in Morgan Co. indicated she was 
born 
in Indiana, which was not properly indicated on censuses.  Her possible 
father, Daniel 
Mock, is listed in the 1830 census of Ward Twp., Randolph, IN and the 1820 
census of 
Perry, IN. A Henry Hall, age 45 or older, is listed in the 1810 Mercer Co., 
Kentucky 
census in the same area as the Fisher family. The early census search for 
him was also 
helpful because he had listed several different states on the censuses in 
Morgan Co. 
HENRY HALL died 10 Jan. 1871 in Morgan Co., MO and is buried in the Old 
Liberty 
Baptist Church Cemetery there. *NANCY MOCK HALL was living in 1870 next to 
her 
son–in-law TRUSTIN FISHER and she probably died before 1880.

*TRUSTIN died 31 Mar. 1896 at 65 years, 6 days and his wife *MARY JANE died 
3 
Nov. 1918. She died of “arteryclerosis” and her informant was Mrs. D. V. Igo 
of Fortuna, 
Versailles, MO. Both *TRUSTIN and *MARY JANE are buried at Mt. Carmel 
Cemetery 
in Morgan Co., Mo. *TRUSTIN ’s granddaughter, *LAVINA GEHLKEN COONTZ, 
indicated *TRUSTIN kept slaves and when he let them go he gave them an acre 
of land 
to reside on. 

IV 3. Mary Polly Fisher, born 27 Mar. 1832 in MO, married 9 Aug. 1849 in 
Moniteau 
Co., MO to Daniel Gabriel, her first cousin, born in 1826 in MO.   Mary died 
15 Nov. 
1928 and is buried in Liberty Cemetery, Moniteau, MO. Daniel died 11 Nov. 
1893. In the 
1850 census they were living next to Ellender Fisher, Mary’s mother, in 
Richland, 
Morgan Co., MO.  In 1860 they were living in Moreau twp. Morgan Co. next to 
her 
brother John and wife Rebecca, who in turn were living next to their mother 
Nellie 
Fisher. Also in their family in 1860 was Jackson Gabriel, who may be a 
younger brother 
of Daniel. In 1870 Daniel and Mary Gabriel were in Wilson Township in Gentry 
Co., 
MO. Their children were Mary E., Louisa, Nancy J., Amada, John N, and Silas 
and a 
newborn, only a month old. 

IV. 4. Nancy J. “Nona” Fisher, born 29 June 1836 in MO married Jeremiah  
“Jerry” 
Washington Gabriel 15 April 1852 in Morgan Co., MO.  Jerry was born 7 Jan. 
1831 in 
MO. In the 1860 Mill Creek Twp., Morgan Co., MO, Jerry and Nancy were listed 
with 
two children of their children, Amanda and Delila.  Jerry Gabriel died 16 
Dec. 1911.  
Nancy died 23 Nov. (Feb.) 1930. Both are buried in Freedom Baptist Cemetery 
in 
Versailles, Morgan Co., MO.   They had seven children and lived in Morgan 
and 
Moniteau counties. One of their children was Mattie, the second wife of 
Henry Fisher. 
The others were Thomas (no information), Willa Belle, Cally, and Alta.
					
IV. 5. Caleb Fisher, born in 1839 in MO was living with his mother Ellender 
in the 1860 
census of Morgan Co., MO. There are several Caleb Fishers in census 
listings, and I have 
not been able to determine the correct individual. Caleb married Mollie 
Hannum on 21 
Aug. 1882 in Morgan Co. Fisher family researchers indicate that Caleb and 
Molly had 
two children, Mary and Susie Fisher. They are a mystery to research.

IV. 6. William “Bill” Fisher, born 1841in MO was a bachelor.  He died 14 
April 1927 at 
home in Glenstead, Moniteau, MO in the home he made with his sister, Polly 
Gabriel. 
Earlier, in 1900, he was living in the home of another sister as a boarder, 
Nancy J. Fisher 
Gabriel, whose husband was Jesse Gabriel. 

IV. 7. Ellender Fisher, born about 1845, was Henry’s child by his second 
wife and 
therefore was a half-sister to the rest of his children. She married John 
Harrison in 
Morgan Co. on 20 Nov. 1873.


      GENERATION V 
      
CHILDREN OF *TRUSTIN FISHER AND *MARY JANE HALL FISHER

V. 1. Henry Fisher, born 17 June 1854 married #1 Lavina Hatfield on 10 Nov. 
1873 with 
the marriage performed by Rev. Benjamin D. Stone at Liberty Baptist Church, 
5 miles 
south of Tipton, Mo. in Morgan Co., Mo. Lavina was the daughter of Howard 
Hatfield 
and Sarah Weaver Hatfield. She was born 30 Mar. 1850 and died 13 May 
1923.They had 
four children, Sarah Jane (Dolly), Daisy, Alpha, and Joseph Talbert.  Henry 
married #2 
his first cousin, Mattie Gabriel, daughter of Jessie Gabriel and Nancy J. 
Fisher on 20 
Aug. 1903.  It was difficult to understand the marital situation. Lavina and 
Henry Fisher 
lived next door to Jessie Gabriel’s family. Did Lavina and Henry obtain a 
divorce?  In the 
1920 census of Mill Creek, Morgan Co., Lavina, who was living with her 
daughter Alpha 
J. , indicated she was a widow – a typical statement in that era if a woman 
was divorced. 
Lavina’s son Josephus and his family was living next door to her. It took me 
a while to 
understand why Henry was living with a woman other than his wife!

Mattie Gabriel Fisher had a daughter Selma, who was 5 years old when she 
married 
Henry. No one knows the parentage of Selma, who was called Selma Fisher. It 
was an 
additional curiosity that bachelor William Fisher, cousin to Henry Fisher, 
was living in 
Mattie Gabriel’s parent’s home in 1900 as a boarder. Mattie and Henry Fisher 
had one 
child of their own, Willi Marie Fisher.  Mattie was born in 1874 and died in 
1944 and is 
buried in Freedom Baptist Cemetery in Versailles, Morgan Co., MO. Henry 
Fisher died 
20 Sept. 1933.

V. 2. Stephen Trustin Fisher, born 15 Nov. 1855, married Elizabeth A. 
Williamson on 8 
Feb. 1888 in Morgan Co., MO.  Elizabeth was born 7 Aug. 1864 and died 23 
April 1916.  
Both are buried at Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Morgan Co. Their children were 
Austin 
Edgar, Zelma Ethel, Ursie May, Bonnie Clovely, Frank Hubert, Beulah 
Florence, Creede, 
Beulah, and Vallora Pearl (or Pearl Levona).  Stephen Fisher died 2 Mar. 
1953. There is a 
story that Stephen walked about a mile to town ever day and walked around 
town for 
about an hour. According to *LAVINA COONTZ he might have lived to be 100 if 
he 
hadn’t been hit by a car. However, he only missed his century mark by two 
years. 

V. 3. John Fisher, born 6 Mar. 1857 married 23 Mar. 1886, according to the 
Morgan Co., 
MO list of marriages, to Martha Jane “Matt” Hatfield, born 28 Mar. 1866 and 
died 25 
Oct. 1930. John died 7 Apr. 1943. Both are buried in Crescent Hill Cemetery, 
Audrain 
Co., Mo. Their children were Trustin, Emma E, William, Frederick, and May 
according o 
the 1900 census of Mill Creek Morgan Co., MO. I was unable to locate them 
later, so 
there may be additional children.

V. 4. Nancy Ellen Fisher a.k.a. Mary Ellen, born 5 Mar. 1859 “near Tipton”, 
died 14 June 
1941. Her obituary (as “Mary Ellen Milburn”) indicated she died of injuries 
from an auto 
collision. She married Joseph Milburn 29 Dec. 1881 with the marriage 
conducted by 
Reverend Dinwiddie. Joseph was born 24 Sept. 1858, the son of Jonathan and 
Susan 
Hupp Milburn of Kentucky. He settled in Glensted, MO, a town he founded, 
soon after 
his marriage. He served as postmaster and as ticket agent for the Missouri 
Pacific R. R. 
He died 10 Mar. 1930 in Kansas City, MO. His funeral was held “Under 
auspices of 
Glenstead Lodge, No.250, A. F. and A.M.” on 13 Mar. 1930 at Freedom Baptist 
Church 
in Versailles, Morgan Co. MO. Both are buried at Versailles, Mo. They 
produced seven 
children. One of the more interesting accounts of Milburn was a newspaper 
column fifty 
years after his death wherein old timers talked about Milburn, who “Made 
this place 
move”. The column relates how he changed the town’s name from Harrisonville 
to 
Glensted, got a post office and general store, a stockyard, a hoop factory, 
a millinery run 
by his wife, a harness shop and a bakery. “If Milburn could make a nickel 
off it, he 
shipped it. “Their seven children were Maud Zelda, Marie Susan, Fred Oliver, 
Frances 
(Fannie)Isabel, Josephine Ellen, Anna Leah, and Jack. 

V. 5. Caleb William Fisher, born 8 May 1861, died 2 Sept. 1937. He married 
17 Mar. 
1886 in Morgan Co., MO to Mary Catherine Moon, who was born 20 Oct. 1868. 
They 
produced ten children, Ola, Annie, John, Roy Trustrum, Willam Robert, twins 
Oma and 
Ona, Mary, Henry, and an infant daughter who was born and died 24 July 1906. 
They are 
listed on the Mill Creek, Morgan Co., MO census for 1900. In 1910, William 
and his 
wife are in Kelley, Cooper Co. MO. Mar Catherine died 26 April 1911. In 
1930, Caleb is 
a boarder, widowed, living in District 28 of Sherman, Clay Co., MO. 

V. 6. Mary Jane Price Fisher, born 7 June 1863 near Tipton, Moniteau Co., MO 
died 26 
June 1939, age 76 years 19 days. She married J. Howard Hatfield, born 13 
Mar. 1856, on 
16 Feb. 1879 in Morgan Co., MO. He died 19 Mar. 1928. Their children were 
Mary Ann 
(Docia), Alice, Minnie, Steven Howard, Ollie, John, Leslie, Orah, Walter, 
Gusta, Farah 
B., Lillian, Vivian Grace, Raymond, and Arley. 

V. 7. Anna “Annie” Elizabeth Fisher, born 18 April 1865, married 19 Mar. 
1884 in 
Morgan Co., MO to Wallace M. Porter, son of John and Hannah Porter of St. 
Louis, MO, 
born 11 Nov. 1852. Wallace died 15 Aug. 1905, age 53 years and is buried in 
the Porter 
Cemetery near Syracuse, Morgan Co.,  MO.   They had six children, Ned, 
Bessie, 
Emmett, Arthur, Alma, George. Annie Fisher Porter married #2 Peary Porter 
(no relation 
to Wallace). She was living in Syracuse in 1921 according to family, died in 
Kansas City 
and was buried either at Mr. Carmel or Mt. Olive Cemetery near Syracuse, 
Morgan Co., 
MO.

V. 8. Bolivar “Bol” Truston Fisher, born 9 Feb. 1867, married in Morgan Co., 
MO 12 
Mar. 1890 Rebecca Igo, born Dec.1869 and died 29 July 1929. Bolivar died 28 
July 
1958.  Both are buried at Syracuse MO. They had eight children, Louis, 
Loila, Osie L., 
Marvin, Blanche L., Ida May, George, and Clyde. In 1900 Bolivar, listed as 
“Ball T” and 
his family were living in Syracuse, Morgan Co, MO next to his brother, Dever 
Monroe 
and his wife, Daisy.

V. 9. Emma Louella Fisher, born 20 Nov 1868, married 4 Oct. 1897 in Morgan 
Co., MO. 
Daniel Vincent Igo. Daniel was a brother of Rebecca Igo Fisher, wife of 
Bolivar Fisher.  
Daniel was born 17 Feb. 1865 and died 10 Dec. 1923.  Emma died 31 May 1935 
in 
Stockton, CA. They had six children, Archie H., Eva J., Vincent, Wayne, 
Milburn, and 
Laura Maude.

V. 10. Rosetta Ann Fisher, born 14 April 1870, died 23 Aug. 1871 and is 
buried in 
Liberty Cemetery, Moniteau, MO.

V. 11. Dever Monroe Fisher, born 2 April 1873, married 1 Dec. 1895 in Morgan 
Co., MO 
to Daisy May Drake (#2 wife?). Daisy was born 2 Nov. 1877 and died 10 Mar. 
1944.  
Dever died in 1967 in Morgan Co. MO and is buried at Akinsville, MO cemetery 
near 
Tipton, Moniteau, MO according to family. Their ten children were Zora 
Esther, Lucy 
May, Monta Faye, Rita Gladys, Dever Glenn, Albert Lee, Eliza Noel, Worley 
Hall, 
Marjorie Elizabeth, and Lela Ruth. (The names are spelled differently on 
several census 
listings.) Dever and Daisy continued to live in Mill Creek, Morgan Co., MO. 

V. 12. *LAVINA FRANCES FISHER, born 23 Feb. 1875, married 1 Sept. 1895 in 
Tipton , Moniteau Co., MO (Record in Morgan Co.) *FRED GEHLKEN, born 2 Apr. 
1872.  *LAVINA died 27 May 1899 in Denver CO within a few days of delivery 
of her 
third child, *LAVINA FRANCES GEHLKEN and is buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, 
Morgan Co., MO.  Fred Gehlken died May 1944.  They had three children, 
Albert, Nora, 
and Lavina Frances.  Their story is encompassed in the histories of the 
Gehlken, Penning, 
and Coontz families. 

**********


JOANNE COONTZ
2007
FISHER FAMILY BIBLIOGRAPHY
      

“FISHER FAMILY RECORD”, two page personal account by Trustin Fisher, born 
Feb. 
25, 1831, married Mary Jane Hall. 

“HATFIELD FAMILY RECORD”, one page family record prepared by son of George 
Howard Hatfield, born Mar. 13, 1856 Morgan Co., MO.

Adam Fisher family line in letter form, written by Dorothy Ketterlin, Aug. 
15, 1975 
Tipton, MO. 

Ten page Fisher family history, unknown authors and researchers, sent by 
Josephine De 
John, Rte#2, Box 325, Blue Springs, MO June 25, 1976.

“The Legacy of Adam Fisher  ( -1757)”, James S. Fisher, 1985, Piscator 
Publications, 
Jackson MS.

Fisher/Milburn family births – handwritten notes.

“Morgan Co., MO Will Book; Missouri Pioneers Vol. XXX”, Hodges/Woodruff, 
March 
1975.

“Morgan Co, MO Birth Records 1839-1869”, Sims-Yarnell, Versailles, MO 
through 
“National Gen. Soc., Quarterly, June 1976, Vol. 64 #2”.

”Early Marriage Records of Cooper Co., MO (1820-70)”, Elizabeth Ellsberry 
Prather, 
Chillicothe, MO.

“Moniteau, MO Marriage Records 1845-60 and Will Index 1845-1914” at 
Moniteau, 
MO.

“Moniteau, MO Circuit Court Record, Book 1”at Moniteau, MO.

“Record of Marriages, Morgan Co., MO,  Feb. 10, 1888-Sept. 5, 1896”, Ilene 
Sims 
Yarnell, 

Morgan Co. Marriages on rootsweb.com

Blassengame family on Internet web site, Kenneth Blassengame.

Morgan, MO Marriages through August Barnhouse, Pres. Mid-MO Genealogical 
Society.

“Book 6 Record of Marriages”, Yarnell. Morgan, MO.

“Taxpayers, Morgan, MO” Ilene Sims Yarnell, Versailles, MO from “Four States 
Genealogist, Vo. 2 NO. 2, Jan. 1970”, Indian Nations Press

“History of Cooper Co,, MO, J. F. Johnson, Historical Publishing Co., 1919.

Censuses: 1810, 20 Mercer, KY; 1830, 40 Cooper Co., MO; 1840, 50, 60, 70, 
80, 1900  
Morgan Co., MO; 1850 Sarcoxie Twp, Jasper Co., MO; Moniteau Co., MO 1880;

Mary Jane Hall Fisher, daughter of Henry Hall and Nancy Mock, widow of 
Trustin 
Fisher - death certificate.

Handwritten notes, Marriages of Millburn line

Delayed birth certificate copy- Nora Zella Gehlken 1898

Fisher births, handwritten by Lavina Gehlken Coontz
 
Fisher/Garr/Waller Family History”, includes Mercer Co., KY, Elizabeth B. 
Smith, 
Independence, MO 1975. Two typed pages.

“History of Morgan Co., MO, Morgan Co. Historical Assoc., Taylor 
Publications, Dallas, 
TX 1979.

“History of Cooper Co., MO, W. F. Johnson, VKM Publishing Co., 1978.

“The Versailles Leader” newspaper, 21 Mar. 1930 - copy.

“National Gen. Soc. Quarterly, Vol. 64 #2, June 1976. Morgan Co., MO Birth 
Records 
1839-1869.

“History of Morgan Co., MO and its People”, A. G. Barber

“Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky to the General Assembly of 
Virginia: 
1769-1792”, accessed through Ancestry.com.

“Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books”, DAR ID#11286 and 6105 
accessed through Ancestry.Com

“Fisher Family Tree” – a genealogical map showing Adam Fisher and sons 
Daniel, Lewis 
of Culpepper, Abraham, and Adam. Prepared by Fisher family descendant.  No 
name.

Handwritten family notes regarding Fisher descendants.

“Record of Marriages, Morgan Co., MO, 25 Mar. 1860 –18 Aug. 1893”, Yarnell,  
1974.

“Record of Marriages 28 Nov. 1833 – 20 June 1875”, Omega Hutchison, 1973.

“Missouri – A Guide to the ‘Show Me’ State”, American Guide Series, 
WPAProject, 
State of MO, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, NY 1941.

“Tipton, A History of the Community”, Tipton Bicentennial Committee 1976.

“History of Moniteau Co., MO, J. E. Ford, Marvin H. Crawford Press of Calif. 
Democrat, 
1936.

“Pioneer Times”, Vol. 6 #1, City of Jefferson, MO, Jan. 1982 re Liberty 
Baptist Church 
Cemetery.

“Missouri Marriages before 1840 – Cooper and Morgan Co. Marriage Book A 
1833-
1861, Ellsberry, Gen. Pub. Co., 1982.

“Morgan Co., Inscriptions, Old Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery, Morgan Co., 
MO, 
Yarnell & Kidwell, Versailles, MO 1954.

Record of Marriages, 26 Apr. 1900 – 17 June 1909, Morgan Co., MO, Yarnell, 
Sims, 
Royce & Isbelle Harper, Anderson , MO.

“Missouri Pioneers, Vol. VIII, Woodruff. 

“Missouri Marriages before 1840, Cooper & Morgan Co, Marriage Book A 1833-
1861, 
Recorders Office, Versailles, MO, Gen. Publishing Co., 1982.



“Passengers & Immigration Lists Index 1500-1900s, “Scots in the Mid-Atlantic 
Colonies, 
1635-1783, David Dobson, Gen. Publishing Co., Baltimore (accessed through 
Ancestry.com. 

“Cooper County, Missouri, Book of Strays – Book B from Nov. 1828 to Dec. 
1833” from 
the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, Ellis Library, University of 
MO, 
Columbia, transcribed by James F. Toma, Jan. 2000, accessed through 
Ancestry.com.

“Rejected or Suspended Revolutionary Pensions, Gen. Publishing Co., 1969.

“Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc. printout, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1983 on 
Fischer/Fisher.

Note: This collection was accessed over thirty years. Some of the details of 
publishers, 
etc. were not written down at the time of research. Joanne Coontz, 2006.




 

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