John Fischer, the Elder, married Mary Anna (or Anna Marie) Groff in 1845. They were my grandmother Della’s great grandparents. They came over as kids in 1841 around the same time as the Dixon’s were arriving from England. They came with their parents. We have no information yet on John Fischer’s parents, other than that they were also from Hesse-Darmstadt in Germany. We do however, know about Mary Anna’s parents, thanks to bio on her brother, the Honorable John Groff, a judge and “noted agriculturalist” in Wabash County, Illinois. Note: It was common for judges to take pride in their farming abilities a la Thomas Jefferson.
This comes from The History of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash Counties, published in 1883.
It says that John Groff was born at Hesse Casel on the Rhine and his parents were John Fredrick Groff and Anna Mary (coincidence?) Baum Groff, who emigrated to America in 1841. They had 10 children. So it doesn’t name the other nine, but one of them has to be our Mary Anna, the future wife of John Fischer.
So John Fredrick and Anna Mary (Baum) Groff were my grandmother Della’s great, great grandparents!
Which just reminds me that I haven’t checked into some other maternal branched of the family tree. We have a lot on the Bell family, as we were related to a noted historian of Edwards County and Rude Fisher married not one but two Bell sisters. We also have a bit on the maternal strands on the Dixon side partly because they were instrumental in helping John Dixon bring the family over to America in shifts.
Maybe I’ll eventually try to see what I can find when I figure out how to use Ancestry in a more competent manner.
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