Charles Florence Fisher Ancestry
Sources:
- Daniel Bly, Harrisonburg, Virginia, genealogical researcher and distant cousin, and author of From the Rhine to the Shenandoah: eighteenth century Swiss & German pioneer families in the centralShenandoah Valley of Virginia and their European origins ; Baker, Bly, Brubeck, Dosh, Funk, Funkhouser, Keller, Orndorff, Pitman, Rosenberger, Snapp, Spiggle, Supinger, Windle
- S.P.D., a fellow Fisher descendant and researcher
- A letter written to "Gee Gee" on October 11, 1977
- Archive of In the Shade of My Family Tree: The Fishers and Roarks in Indian Territory
- Carolyn Fisher Johnson, my mother
- Shenandoah County chancery case of John Smith vs. Adm of Abraham Kendrick
- The descendants of Peter Mauck, 1708-1980 by William Richard Wolph; published byArlington, Va.: W.R. Wolph, © 1980
- Martha Baker Jones, fellow descendant and researcher, Notes on the deaths of Emanuel & Esther Pitman
- J. Markwood, Luray, VA: Esther Funkhouser Pitman Obituary
- U.S. Census Data 1810-1860
- Shenandoah County Gazetteer & Historical Geography by Irvin D. Magin (p. 40)
- Strasburg, Virginia: Our History in Post Cards by Gloria Stickley
- MyHeritage: Emanuel Pitman
- StoryScout on Ancestry.com - 1880 Census data
- Shenandoah County Marriage Records - Fisher-Fravel
- Calvin "Cal" Sonner's website History and Genealogy Information Related to Northern Shenandoah County, Virginia
- Strasburg, Virginia, Store Ledger 1852-1853
- Ledger #3 Dated 1898 - Strasburg, Virginia
- Also his providing me a picture of part of a feed sack from D.E. Fisher mill and pointing me to the Keister book below:
- Strasburg, Virginia, and the Keister Family (1972) by Elmo Earl Keister, p. 196
- WikiTree: Susanna Juliana (Snapp) Fisher (1789 - 1853)
- WikiTree: David Fisher (abt. 1783 - 1871)
- Shenandoah County Marriage Bonds, 1772-1850, p. 58 (document) - marriage of Emmanuel and Esther (Funkhouser) Pitman
- A Historical Sketch of the Funkhouser Family (1902) by Jacob Funkhouser
- National Park Service: The Civil War: Soldier Details: Isaac M. Fisher
- Others as noted within the page
| The evidence suggests that my Fishers were from Germany, though there were Fishers from England as well as per this article regarding the Fisher surname. My conclusion of the German origin of my Fishers is supported by a letter written to "Gee Gee" on October 11, 1977, where the writer indicates the Fishers "came from an area between the Netherlands and Germany. The family allegedly got into trouble with the authorities for poaching on Royal property." It also mentions an eyewitness account Hessian soldiers in the American Civil War. S.P.D. spoke to a Civil War expert who said that there were German immigrants that fought on the Northern side. The Yankees would recruit them off of the boat in exchange for citizenship. This occurred with Irish immigrants, too. The Civil War expert also mentioned "Howard's Cowards" who fought in Gettysburg and elsewhere (Related article: The "German" XI Corps at Gettysburg July 1, 1863 by Patrick Young, esq.). Those troops may have either been from Hesse, or the term "Hessian" may just have been the old one for Germans in general. | Daniel T. Rogers echoes some of this tree on his site. | ||||||||||||||
| This line of Crabills is from Shenandoah Co., VA, a different family than the Crabills who married into the Mauck family in Shenandoah Co. and subsequently moved to Harrison Co., Indiana (Wolph, 1980). | ↑ Susannah Crabill |
I have multiple DNA matches with whom I potentially share common ancestors Johann Philipp Pitman and Susannah Crabill Pitman. Dennis Hickerson, Ricky Holsinger, Cecilia Ford and Shyley Waterman. |
↑ Johann Phillip (Philip) Bittmann (Pitman) |
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| The archive of one tree has Friedrick Fischer (b. ca. 1710) and Sybilla (?) as George Fisher's parents, but per Daniel Bly, there is no evidence or documentation that proves George Fisher, Sr. (d. 1814) was their son. | b. 1745 d. 1 Feb. 1821 |
m. ca. 1770 Shenandoah Co., VA. Both buried in old Baker homestead along North Mtn. about 2 miles northwest of Strasburg, VA. |
b. 16 Nov. 1741 Framersheim, Alzey-Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, GERMANY. Came to Philadelphia on Prince of Wales 5 Nov. 1764. d. 1 or 11 May 1820 |
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Carolyn Fisher Johnson, my mother, says the Fishers "were Amish in PA. Some went mid-west and some south."
Per Daniel Bly: The evidence that old George Fisher, Sr., (d. 1814) came from Lancaster County, PA, (and there was no other George Fisher, Sr., in the area at that time) is found in a deposition he made 8 Aug 1803, in the Shenandoah County chancery case of John Smith vs. Adm of Abraham Kendrick. On pages 34 and 35 of the chancery file, you can find the digital copy of the deposition with George Fisher's signature on it. He states in regard to a man named Henry Weaver of Lancaster County that "twenty eight years since" (i.e., from 1803) he was living near Henry Weaver, brother of Abraham Kendrick's wife -- and goes on to recall conversation regarding a child that Kendrick's wife had by another man. On page 85 of A Historical Sketch of the Funkhouser Family (1902) by Jacob Funkhouser, the author writes, "My grandfather, George Fisher, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He married Miss Barbara Biedler, and located on Stony Creek, about one mile above Edinburg, Shenandoah county, Va. He was a miller by vocation. He died May 4th, 1814, survived by a widow and a large family of children: John, Jacob, William, George, Elizabeth, wife of John Kokenour, Adam, David, Martin, Catherine, wife of Mathias Stover, Rebecca, wife of John White, Mary, wife of Henry White, Susanna, wife of John Johnson, Sarah, wife of Abraham Funkhouser, Rachael, wife of Paul Hottel, Anna, wife of Joseph Wisman, Christina, wife of John H. Funkhouser, and Samuel Fisher.My grandmother, Barbara Biedler Fisher, died May 19th, 1832. My mother, Christina Fisher, was born Oct. 2d, 1800. She was married August 9th, 1821, to John H. Funkhouser." |
George Fisher, Sr. Revolutionary War Patriot (Funkhouser, p. 85) He is also seen as Johann George Fischer, Sr., though the FamilySearch profile has some conflicting information. My ancestor was indeed George Fisher, Sr., and documented evidence (see left and below) support that, but also support an 1814 death year, meaning the profile's death year of 1835 is incorrect. |
Catherine (maiden surname unknown) |
After Catherine died, George married Mary Gochenour. After Mary died, he married Barbara Beidler/Beydler/Rader (Sources: George Fisher Family Tree, FamilySearch, Desendants of David Fisher and Shenandoah Co., VA, marriage records). | ↑ Peter Snapp Revolutionary War Patriot |
Peter Snapp was on the muster list of Alexander Machir's Militia Company from Strasburg District of Shenandoah County, Virginia, during the Revolutionary War. | ↑ Catherine Copenhaver |
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↑ Christian Funkhouser, Sr. |
I have a DNA match with whom I share common ancestor Christian Funkhouser. Leslie Marangoni. I have multiple DNA matches who share Christian and potentially Barbara as common ancestors. Terri Gould, Kintina Chapman, William Mault, Kathleen Martin, Linda Lynch, Pamela Young, Carol Farmer, Sharon Cardona, Anna Thaell, Willa Clements, S. Ford, Lisa Totten, Catherine Hiatt, Terry Brown and Kelly OBeirne. I have a DNA match, also, who only matches Christian Funkhouser. Kristi Mathias. | ↑ Barbara Layman (Lehman) |
After Barbara died, Christian Funkhouser married Catherine Stover, daughter of my ancestors, Jacob and Catherine Bowman Stover. The daughter Catherine Stover's first husband Reuben Boehm had died. - James Arthur Johnson. | ||||
Signatures of George Fisher, Sr., from 1803: 
Old Fisher Album, which appears to feature descendants of George Fisher and his second wife Mary Gochenour (m. 4 January 1791 as seen in Shenandoah County Marriage Records). Refer to the George Fisher family tree (source: FamilySearch: 1, 2) and David Fisher family tree (source: Martha Baker Jones). The pictures include those of Samuel Fisher, Sr. (b. ca. 1803-1810), and Samuel Fisher, Jr. My fellow Fisher researcher and descendant S.P.D. says that Samuel Fisher, Sr., appears to have been a son of David and Susannah (Snapp) Fisher (i.e., not David's half-brother in the case of being a son of George and Mary Gochenour Fisher). Samuel went from Virginia to Indiana and then on to California, quite remarkable for his time! |
b. 1740 to 1750 d. 4 May 1814 Last Will and Testament A will dated 13 April 1814 and proved 9 May 1814 lists George's wife as Barbara (FamilySearch; he had multiple wives) and children as George, Adam, David, John, William, Martin, Samuel, Rebecca (m. John White), Sarah, Elizabeth (m. John Kohenour), Catharine (m. Mathias Stover), Susannah (m. John Johnson), Rachel, Anna and Christina (Source: FamilySearch). Will of George Fisher of Stoney Creek (Source: FamilySearch). |
m. ca. 1770 | b. 1740 to 1750 d. 30 Sept. 1790 |
b. 1754 in Frederick Co., VA d. December 1789 in Shenandoah Co., VA |
m. 11 March 1782 | b. 16 January 1763 d. 23 July 1846 in Shenandoah Co., VA, buried at Funk Cemetery, Fishers Hill, VA |
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b. 1745, Tumbling Run, Shenandoah County, VA d. 1818, Tumbling Run, Shenandoah County, VA |
m. 21 June 1774 | b. 1756, Shenandoah Co., Virginia d. ca. 1804 (before 1805), Shenandoah Co., VA |
On page 28 of A Historical Sketch of the Funkhouser Family (1902) by Jacob Funkhouser, the author mentions that Christian first married Mary Layman and implies that after his first wife's death, he married the widow Catherine Boehm. |
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David Fisher is the namesake for Fishers Hill, Virginia, where he settled and built a mill on Tumbling Run ca. 1805 (source: p. 40, Shenandoah County Gazetteer & Historical Geography by Irvin D. Magin).
On David Fisher's gravestone, it says, "Our father rests beneath the sod no more earth to roam but oh, how happy is the thought that God will call him home." Located near Fishers Hill, Virginia. David Fisher: Census Data | family tree Calvin "Cal" Sonner contacted me in December 2021 regarding Fisher's Mill on Tumbling Run: "Mr. Fisher had an outlet (Store) where he sold produce from the mill in Strasburg." The Strasburg, Virginia, Store Ledger 1852-1853, which he complied, mentions David Fisher on p. 95 (dated September 1852) and p. 135 (dated December 1852). Mr. Sonner also provided me with a picture of part of a feed sack from D.E. Fisher mill. During Sheridan's burning of the valley, 84-year-old David Fisher saved the mill: details (source: Keister, p. 196). According to Mr. Sonner, the mill was converted to an electric generating station for a year or so in the 1920s. The fellow who ran the station died and his wife could not find anyone who knew how or desired to run the equipment. So, generation of electricity there ceased. It's Mr. Sonner's understanding that it supplied electricity to the town of Strasburg. |
David Fisher | I have a DNA match who shares my ancestors David and Juliana (Snapp) Fisher. Aaron Zito. | Susanna Juliana Snapp | Emmanuel Pitman | Emmanuel's brothers were Abraham, Jonathan and David. | Esther (Ester) Funkhouser | Geni.com shows that James "Jamie" Arthur Johnson is second cousin, thrice removed, to General Wade H. Haislip, our common ancestors being Emmanuel and Esther (Funkhouser) Pitman. Gen. Haislip is descended from their daughter Elizabeth Margaret (Pitman) Heller, his grandmother, through her daughter Moritzetta Susan (Heller) Haislip. "General Wade Hampton Haislip (9 July 1889 - 23 December 1971) was a senior United States Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II, where he led XV Corps on the Western Front from 1944 to 1945. He later became a four-star general, serving as Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army (VCSA) from 1949 to 1951" (Wikipedia: Wade H. Haislip). | ||||||||
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"Fishers Hill is the high steep hill that you encounter when you go south of Strasburg on Rt. 11. It was originally the site of John Funk's Mill on Tumbling Run, which flows by the foot of the hill.
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b. 20 Jan. 1783 Shenandoah Co., VA d. 10 or 12 March 1871 Fishers Hill, Shenandoah Co., VA will info grave photo article about grave Source for dates/locations: WikiTree |
m. 25 Sept. 1805 Shenandoah Co., VA marriage record Also see Shenandoah County Marriage Records. David Fisher lived at the site of the old Funk Mill near the mouth of Tumbling Run, in northern Shenandoah County. His wife, Susannah inherited this property from her father, Peter Snapp. The steep hill south of the house and mill is known to this day as "Fishers Hill" and the name has come to apply to the whole area along Tumbling Run (Source for this and marriage date/location: WikiTree). |
b. 17 Sept. 1789 Tumbling Run, Shenandoah Co., VA d. 30 March 1853 Tumbling Run, Shenandoah Co., VA grave photo Source for dates/locations: WikiTree |
b. 5 Feb. 1772, Shenandoah, Page, Virginia d. 13 April 1850, Toms Brook, Shenandoah Co., Virginia |
m. 6 June 1796 Shenandoah Co., VA (document, source: Shenandoah County Marriage Bonds, 1772-1850, p. 58) I have multiple DNA matches with whom I share common ancestors Emanuel (potentially) and Esther (Funkhouser) Pitman. Tim Sams, Katharine Albright Carter Borden, Janet Kearton, Marian Wright, Janell Myrick, M. Suzanne VanGilder, Lisa Jo Warren, Terry Sutherland, Blanche Allen Thomason, Tim Goss, Juliana Rees, Rocky Rice, Naomi Feige, Mia Copp, Kathleen Sherrill, Cindy McPerson, Martoria Stout, Victoria Mohr, Nancy Hammer and David Decker. |
b. 16 May 1776 d. 12 Nov. 1853 Esther Funkhouser Pitman Obituary |
On pages 28, 30 of A Historical Sketch of the Funkhouser Family (1902) by Jacob Funkhouser, the author lists children of Emmanuel and Esther (Funkhouser) Pitman: 1) Levi Pitman, m. Rachael Windle, June 12, 1845. 2) Rachael Pitman, m. E. Rosenberger. 3) Catherine Pitman (b. January 17, 1799, d. October 12, 1836), m. Jacob Hass (b. Nov. 10, 1790, d. Sept. 28, 1876). 4) Leah Pitman, m. Jacob Eberly. 5) Anthony Pitman, m. (1) Nancy Mauck. (2) Mary. 6) Magdalena Pitman, m. John Hockman. 7) Daniel Pitman. Died young. 8) Rosena Pitman, m. John Maphis. 9) Maria Pitman, m. 1st Abram Walters, 2nd Wm. Miller, 3rd John Carter. 10) Esther Pitman, m. Jacob Hockman. 11) Sarah Pitman. Died young. 12) Rebecca Pitman, m. David Funkhouser. 13) Barbara Pitman. Died young. 14) Elizabeth Pitman, m. Moritz Heller, April 21, 1842. 15) Susan Pitman m. Isaac Fisher. | ||||||||
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Isaac Fisher served as a Private in J.W. Carter's Company (Chew's Company), (West) Virginia Horse Artillery (Source: NPS). |
Isaac M. Fisher Note: alleged photo needing verification. (Source: Ancestry via hints) |
I have a DNA match who shares Isaac and Susan Fisher as common ancestors. Jeffrey Clow. | Susan Pitman |
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| Ledger #3 Dated 1898 - Strasburg, Virginia, compiled by Calvin Sonner, mentions Isaac Fisher. | b. 7 June 1814 d. 25 April 1866 grave photo |
m. 14 March 1843 (Shenandoah County Marriage Records) They lived in Fisher's Hill, VA |
b. 18 July 1820 (WikiTree says b. 17 July 1820 in Mount Olive, Shenandoah Co., VA) d. 12 July 1900 Fishers Hill, Shenandoah Co., VA |
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| Charles and Mary (Pifer) Fisher are third cousins via their shared great great grandfather John Funkhouser, Sr. (Johannes Fankhauser, Sr.).
In 1880, my 2nd great-grandfather Charles Florence Fisher was working as a farmer. In the previous year, he had been unemployed for 12 months.
At the time, Charles was living in Davis, Virginia.
The average workweek in 1880 was around 60 hours a week. For a common laborer, the average weekly wage was $8, or $204 in today's dollars.
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Charles Florence Fisher (an older Charles pictured - colorized version, enhanced colorized close-up) |
(picture w/ Charles and Mary) (picture - reunion) (picture - tomb) (picture - tomb close-up) |
↑ Mary Elizabeth Pifer 
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Pictures RE: Mary Elizabeth (Pifer) Fisher: |
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| b. 17 Oct. 1855, Tumbling Run, Shenandoah Co., Virginia (Source: "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917", database, FamilySearch) |
m. 29 April 1879 by Rev. M.F. Keiter (Shenandoah County Marriage Records) Announcement from May 7, 1879, edition of the Shenandoah Herald, Volume 59, p. 4 (Woodstock, VA): Charles Florence Fisher marriage to Mary Elizabeth Pifer (Source: Ancestry.com). |
b. 16 April 1858, Tumbling Run, Shenandoah Co., Virginia (Source: "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917", database, FamilySearch d. 12 February 1936 |
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| | ↓ descendants through son Otto Keiter Fisher via his marriage to Mollie Clara Nash |
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ancestors
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Fishers settled the Christian
upper tract of what is now Crabill (Grabill) - from Shenandoah Co. - is of a different family
Pendleton Co. WV, pre 1770. | than the Crabills who married into the Mauck family
| in Shenandoah Co. and subsequently moved to
| Harrison Co., Indiana (Wolph, 1980).
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Friedrich Sybilla(?) Susannah Johann Phillip (Philip)
Fischer | Crabill + Bittmann Susannah and Johann were married about 1770.
b. ca. 1710 | (b. 1745 (Pitman)
| | d. 1 Feb 1821) +------------+ Both Susannah and Johann are buried in
+-------+-------+ |b 16Nov.1741| old Baker homestead along North Mtn. about
| |Framersheim,| 2 miles northwest of Strasburg, VA.
| |Alzey-Worms,|
| |Rheinland-Pfalz,
| |GERMANY. |
| |Came to | Barbara
+------+ |Philadelphia| Christian + Layman
| |on "Prince | Funkhouser (Lehman)
| |of Wales" | +---------+--------+
George Catherine Peter Catherine |5 Nov. 1764.| |b. 1745 |b. 1745 |
Fisher + (maiden Snapp + Copenhaver |m. about1770| |to 1755 |to 1755 |
b.1740 | name ?) (1754-1789)| (1763-1846) |Shen Co. VA | |d. 1818 |d pre1805
to 1750 | (b. 1740 | |d. 1 or 11 | +------------------+
d.14 May| to 1750) | |May 1820 | |m. 21 June 1774 |
1814 | (d. 30 | +-----+------+ +-------+----------+
m. abt | Sept. | | |
1770 | 1790) | | |
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On David Fisher's David Susanna | |
gravestone, it Fisher + Juliana Emmanuel Esther (Ester)
says, "Our father | Snapp Pitman + Funkhouser
rests beneath the +------+--+--+-----+ +-----+-----+-----+ CLICK HERE
sod no more earth |b. 20 |m. 25|b. 17| |b. 5 |m. 7 |b. 16| FOR ESTHER'S
to roam but oh, |Jan. |Sept.|Sept.| |Feb. |June |May | OBITUARY.
how happy is the |1783 |1805 |1789 | |1772 |1796 |1776 | CLICK HERE
thought that God |d. 10 | |d. 30| |d. 13|Shen.|d. 12| FOR NOTES ON
will call him |March | |March| |April| Co. |Nov. | THE DEATHS OF
home." Located |1871 | |1853 | |1850 | VA |1853 | EMANUEL &
near Fishers Hill,+------+--+--+-----+ +-----+--+--+-----+ ESTHER PITMAN.
Virginia. | |
(Census Data) | +------+
Isaac Susan |
Fisher + B. Pitman
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|b. 7 |m. 16|b.18| Susan & Isacc
|June |Mar |July| lived at Fisher's
|1814 |1843 |1820| Hill, Virginia.
|d. 25| |d.12|
|April| |July|
|1866 | |1900|
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Charles Mary
Florence + Elizabeth
Fisher Pifer
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|b. 17 |m. 29 |
|Oct. |April |
|1855 |1879 |
|d. 6 | |
|June | |
|1917 | |
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