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Johannus Christopher 'John' Fisher The following notes have been passed along in our family, type written, unsigned and undated Titled: INCIDENTS OF EARLY FISHER FAMILY HISTORY
John Christopher Fisher was born in Bavaria in 1756 and died in Steubenville, Ohio in 1809. He served in the Second Continental Line of Virginia during the War of the Revolution. He was paid off at Fort Pitt.
He married Susannah (Elizbeth) Bratton in 1785 at Stanton, Virginia. She was the daughter of an officer in the revolutionery Army. 4 of their children died in infancy. The following lived and died in Steubenville, Ohio:
Thomas Michiel, Marie Margaretta, William, Katherine, John and Elizabeth (twins) and Jane Christina who married Robert Conn.
The family lived in the neighborhood of Stanton, Virginia until about 1804, lived a short time near Winchester, on the South Fork of the Potomac. The German bible held in the Conn family gave place and time of the christening of the children in the rites of the Episcopal church, with names of the godparents.
From Virginia they migrated to western Pennsylvania, 'The Great Wilderness.' After a rough journey over the mountains beset by Indians and wild animals, they came to a crude frontier village called Plump Sauk, near West Newton. The following spring they descended the Youghiogheny and Monongahala Rivers to McKeesport, and in their family boat, floated down the Ohio to the frontier town of Steubenville, where the father had preceeded them looking for a suitable home. He had written to the wife, 'I have found a small place, with house and spring and a shop.' Here he set up a small pottery, but did not live long. The oldest son, Thomas, then about 21, carried on the business and the family stayed together until he died. The mother Susannah married ___Dady. There is no further record.
John Christopher was buried in the old grave yard at the site of the present Grant school building in Steubenville. While excavating for the new building, a tombstone long buried revealed the grave of John C. Fisher, ancestor of all the present D.A.R. members of the Fisher lineage.
Ed Fisher and George Conn, son of Jane the youngest daughter of the Revolutionery soldier, were notified. George Conn agreed to have the remains re-entombed in the Barr family lot in Union Cemetery. Sometime later the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution) chapter of Steubenville installed a marker of a Revolutionery War soldier. We now think a permanent stone should mark the grave.
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Johannus Christopher 'John' Fisher The following notes have been passed along in our family, type written, unsigned and undated Titled: INCIDENTS OF EARLY FISHER FAMILY HISTORY
John Christopher Fisher was born in Bavaria in 1756 and died in Steubenville, Ohio in 1809. He served in the Second Continental Line of Virginia during the War of the Revolution. He was paid off at Fort Pitt.
He married Susannah (Elizbeth) Bratton in 1785 at Stanton, Virginia. She was the daughter of an officer in the revolutionery Army. 4 of their children died in infancy. The following lived and died in Steubenville, Ohio:
Thomas Michiel, Marie Margaretta, William, Katherine, John and Elizabeth (twins) and Jane Christina who married Robert Conn.
The family lived in the neighborhood of Stanton, Virginia until about 1804, lived a short time near Winchester, on the South Fork of the Potomac. The German bible held in the Conn family gave place and time of the christening of the children in the rites of the Episcopal church, with names of the godparents.
From Virginia they migrated to western Pennsylvania, 'The Great Wilderness.' After a rough journey over the mountains beset by Indians and wild animals, they came to a crude frontier village called Plump Sauk, near West Newton. The following spring they descended the Youghiogheny and Monongahala Rivers to McKeesport, and in their family boat, floated down the Ohio to the frontier town of Steubenville, where the father had preceeded them looking for a suitable home. He had written to the wife, 'I have found a small place, with house and spring and a shop.' Here he set up a small pottery, but did not live long. The oldest son, Thomas, then about 21, carried on the business and the family stayed together until he died. The mother Susannah married ___Dady. There is no further record.
John Christopher was buried in the old grave yard at the site of the present Grant school building in Steubenville. While excavating for the new building, a tombstone long buried revealed the grave of John C. Fisher, ancestor of all the present D.A.R. members of the Fisher lineage.
Ed Fisher and George Conn, son of Jane the youngest daughter of the Revolutionery soldier, were notified. George Conn agreed to have the remains re-entombed in the Barr family lot in Union Cemetery. Sometime later the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution) chapter of Steubenville installed a marker of a Revolutionery War soldier. We now think a permanent stone should mark the grave.
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1757 - 1806 (48 years)
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