Fisher Family Genealogy Update Part 2

Wives and children of John Fredrick Fisher, my grandmother Della’s grandfather:

Wife Elizabeth M. Walters
William Fredrick 5/1/1871
Herman Edward 9/16/1872
George M. Fisher 7/25/1874 (was this Ralph? Dies age 6 mos. 2 days)
John Rudolph 5/19/1875
Charles Conrad 6/10/1877

Wife Alzada “Sadie” Castleberry 5/20/1858 (dies 11/17/1895 aged 31)
Lyman 12/6/1893 (dies 4/24/1896 aged 2)
Erma (born about 1896; age 14 at 1900 census)
Elzada (born about 1889; age 11 at 1900 census)
Rhinehult (born about 1891; age 9 at 1900 census)
Katie 5/9/1892
Elsie (born about 1896; age 4 at 1900 census)

Wife Letitia “Lettie” Selner (marriage date 11/5/1896)
no children documented

There is no record of a child named Ralph other than report by relatives in my visit to Albion.

Lizzie Fisher (no DOB or DOD; Sept 5-Oct 22; no mother listed)

Many of the above are recorded at the FindAGrave web site for burials at Bethel Cemetery, which is at the Bethel Church in Ellery, Illinois.

The 1900 census and others before and after 1900 are consistent and are found at the ancestry.com web site.

Other sources were reported in Fisher Family Genealogy Update Part 1.

So, the reason that Lettie was not mentioned by my relatives may have just been because there were no progeny from that marriage. She raised all of Alzada’s kids, most from a very young age.

And if you look close at the 1900 census, it shows that Lettie (stepmom) and Rude (stepson) were both listed as 24 years old. She was a little bit older.