MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Rev. Thomas B. Fisher
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REV. THOMAS B. FISHER was born February 5, 1844, in Marshall County, and
was of German descent from his paternal ancestors and Irish from his
maternal.  He was reared on the farm and received a common school
education.  In 1862 he enlisted in Capt. Miller's Company, Eleventh
Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate Army, where he remained till the close of
the war.  He and four brothers served in that contest; one of them received
a wound, from the effects of which he died several years after the
war.  Having returned home, out subject attended school in his own
county and took a course at Union University, graduating from the literary
department in 1869.  He then joined the Tennessee Conference, and has been
engaged in preaching the word of God ever since.  In 1872 he married Sallie
H. Roberts, who was born in Marshall County, August 31,
1847.  The union was blessed by the birth of four children:  Wilson P.,
Fannie B. (deceased), John R. and Mary.  Mrs. Fisher and her son Wilson are
also members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  In 1883 Mr. Fisher
moved to the farm and has remained there ever since, but he
still carries on his ministerial work.  For seventeen years he has been
actively engaged in the good cause, and his ability as a preacher is too
well known to require comment.  He is a son of John and Mildred (Stratton)
Fisher.  The father was born in North Carolina in 1806, and was the
oldest of twenty-one children.  The mother was born in November, 1810, in
Maury County, and was the second wife of John Fisher.  This union resulted
in the birth of three children, all boys, two of whom are living.  The
father was a blacksmith and wagon-maker by trade until after he had passed
the meridian of life, when he turned his attention exclusively to
farming.  he died in 1882 and his wife followed three months later.

Surnames: Fisher, Roberts
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."