Fisher Land in about 1924

The date on this plat map is uncertain, but the person who found it explains why he thinks it is around 1924.

John Fredrick Fisher had five sons, on of whom was John Rudolph Fisher, known in our family as Grandpa Fisher because he was Wilma, Jerry, Jim and Don's grandpa. J. R. "Rude" Fisher was my grandmother Della Fisher Dixon's father.

In 1924, the landholdings of J. F. Fisher have been broken up and distributed to his surviving sons. You might want to review this old post showing his children. One son, Ralph, did not survive to adulthood.

I can see land in the 1924 map belonging to J. R. Fisher, including a new property on the west side of the Little Wabash River. My dad's cousins pointed out that he owned land on both sides of the river when they grew up and that they loved to go berry picking on the west side of the river. They also tell a cool story about Grandpa Fisher encountering a small group of armed gangsters on his land one day, who reportedly just said..." Mr. Fisher, you just go on back to the house now, we'll be gone in a little while." There was a large (for the time) bridge across the river just west of the house where my grandmother grew up. There is also property on the map listed for H. E. Fisher and W. F. Fisher, two of Grandpa Fisher's brothers. I see a small plot labelled N. Fisher, but nothing to match the other surviving brother.

In one of J. R. Fisher's properties, there appears to be a small section that is labelled J. F. Fisher, which might be a small property that his father retained during his retirement. It appears that the Fisher brothers were enterprising young men and apparently successful in farming during this time just before the great depression. It would be interesting to see a later plat map to see whether the properties contracted or not. Each had several children, and not all of them were boys, so the names might change even if the land stayed in the family.

Use the same basic procedure to find the plat map at IlGenWeb as in the last posting. Choose the 1924 map and then choose the next to last listing in the chart to get the map.