Revised Fisher Family Line

A. John Fisher[1] b. about 1795 North Carolina[2], m. 4 Dec. 1823[3] in Monroe Co., Mississippi, to Martha Ann Walker[4] b. Aug. 27, 1808 Virginia[5]

1. [Ann A. Fisher] b. 1824/25, believed to be the same person who married William E. Cockerham and had one child, Charles W. Cockerham, thought to be one of the legatees (C.W. Cockerham) in John Fisher’s will.[6]

2. [?] Fisher—female[7]

3. Elizabeth L. Fisher b. 22 Dec. 1828, m. to James P. Bolding, a physician, on 22 May 1849[8].

4. Ellen Fisher[9] b. about 1836, m. 25 Dec 1856 to Benjamin F. McWhorter[10] in Pontotoc, Mississippi.

a. Ila McWhorter

b. Mary McWhorter[11]

c. James McWhorter[12]

5. Platt Bull Fisher[13] b. 2 May 1840 Monroe Co., d. 21 June 1863 in Upperville, Va.

6. Alfred P. Fisher[14] b. about 1842 (believed to be the one on the Hill Co., Texas, marriage record who m. N.W.J. Davis[15] on 25 Nov 1875), d. unknown.

7. Henrietta Fisher[16] b. 3 Feb. 1844, m. to James M. Johnson[17].

a. William Johnson[18]

b. Elizabeth Johnson[19]

c. [Thomas] Johnson[20]

8. Emily Fisher[21] b. 27 May 1846, m. first Frank Cockrell[22]

a. Edgar Cockrell[23] of San Antonio, Texas.

She m. secondly Wilson Bailey[24] of San Antonio, Texas

b. Hattie Bailey

c. Georgia Bailey

d. Rosa Bailey

e. Jessie Bailey

f. Julian Bailey

g. Fisher Bailey

h. Raymond Bailey[25]

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[1] U.S. Census 1830, Monroe Co., Miss.; U.S. Census 1850, Pontotoc Co., Miss.; Deed of Gift, John Fisher to Elizabeth Bolding, Pontotoc Co., Miss., 10 June 1850; Lee Co., Mississippi L&P, DB 3, pp. 382-83, No. 897787, 13 Nov 1869; Lee Co., Miss., L & P, DB 3, pp. 382-83, 23 Nov. 1869; John Fisher v. James Allen, Monroe Co., Miss., Court Journal:[Journal not marked.], 23 March 1831; U.S. land patents, Monroe Co., Miss., certificate Nos. 18498, 29002, [2,311,555], 31167, and 8720 from the years 1835-44; Nicholson, “The Walker Family,” 32.

[2] U.S. Census 1850, Pontotoc, Miss.

[3] Jordan R. Dodd, Mississippi Marriages: Early to 1825 (Oren, Utah: Precision Indexing Publishers, n. d.), 37.

[4] U.S. censuses 1850 and 1860, Pontotoc Co., Miss.; Lee Co., Miss. L & P, DB 3, 382-83, 23 Nov. 1869; Nicholson, “The Walker Family,” 32.

[5] Only Nicholson’s account has Martha Ann Walker’s birthplace as Tennessee in “The Walker Family,” 32. Census records indicate Virginia as her birthplace. Her parents, Maj. Theodorick Walker and Ann Scott Walker are believed to have left Virginia in the year following her birth. Nicholson has the other Walker children born in Tennessee, which makes sense as many families sojourned there before moving farther west. However, I have heard that other sources give the other children’s birthplaces as somewhere in the Carolinas.

[6] Based on U.S. Census 1830, Monroe Co., Miss.

[7] Based on U.S. Census 1830, Monroe Co., Miss.

[8] Marriage record No. 893399, Pontotoc Co., Miss., Marriage Bk. 6, p. 11, between Elizabeth L. Fisher and James P. Bolding, .

[9] U.S. Census 1850, Pontotoc Co., Miss.; Nicholson, “The Walker Family,” 32.

[10] Nicholson, “The Walker Family,” 32.

[11] These two girls appear to be known through the collective family memory. I cannot locate the original source, if any, in records.

[12] Nicholson, “The Walker Family,” 32.

[13] U.S. census 1850 and 1860, Pontotoc Co., Miss.; Robert K. Krick, The Gettysburg Death Roster: The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg, second ed., revised, (Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1985), 49; United Daughters of the Confederacy Reference Dept., National Archive Microfilm No. 269, roll No. 67; Nicholson, “The Walker Family,” 32.

[14] U.S. Census 1850, Pontotoc Co., Miss.; U.S. Census 1870, McLennan Co., Texas; United Daughters of the Confederacy Reference Dept., National Archive, Microfilm No. 269, Roll No. 28; Lee Co., Miss. L&P, DB 3, 382-83, No. 897787, 13 Nov 1869; Hill Co., Texas land record, Fisher/Anthony, 8 Dec 1874; Hill Co., Texas land record, Fisher/William, et al., 18 Oct. 1875; Hill Co., Texas land record, Fisher/Morris, 8 June 1875; Hill Co., Texas land record, Fisher/Harris substitute deed, 5 Jan 1876; Hill Co., Texas marriage record with N.M.J. Davis, 23 Nov 1875; H. Grady Howell Jr., For Dixie Land I'll Take My Stand!: A Muster Listing of All Known Mississippi confederate Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, 879.

[15] The family did not recall that he ever married, but the discovery of this marriage record in Hill County opened up the question. Ours is the only A. P. Fisher I am aware of in that county in 1875.

[16] U.S. Census 1860, Pontotoc Co., Miss.; Nicholson, “The Walker Family,” 32.

[17] Nicholson, “The Walker Family,” 32.

[18] Ibid.

[19] Ibid.

[20] Ibid.

[21] U.S. Census 1860, Pontotoc, Miss..

[22] Nicholson, “The Walker Family,” 32.

[23] U.S. Census 1900, Maverick, Texas; Nicholson, “The Walker Family,” 32.

[24] Nicholson, “The Walker Family,” 32.

[25] All of these children are mentioned by Nicholson in “The Walker Family,” 32.