1822 - 1903 (80 years)
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Name |
Reily L Fisher |
Born |
12 Nov 1822 |
Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
28 Jan 1903 |
Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
Buried |
Union Cemetery, Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
Person ID |
I002531 |
Strausstown Roots | ~HasslerFreeman |
Last Modified |
14 Apr 2010 |
Father |
Samuel Fisher, b. 28 Oct 1799, d. 16 Jan 1875, Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 75 years) |
Mother |
Elizabeth Laucks, b. 16 Nov 1800, d. 12 Jan 1884 (Age 83 years) |
Married |
20 Dec 1822 |
Tulpehocken Trinity UCC, Millardsville, Jackson Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania |
Family ID |
F03850 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Matilda B Reber, b. 24 Feb 1827, Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 05 Oct 1889 (Age 62 years) |
Children |
+ | 1. Mary Magdalena Fisher, b. 13 Mar 1852, Pennsylvania , d. 14 Jul 1919, Robesonia, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 67 years) |
+ | 2. Samuel R Fisher, b. 10 Jan 1854, Sinking Spring, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 23 Nov 1936, Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 82 years) |
| 3. Anna Elizabeth Fisher, b. 21 Sep 1856, d. 7 Jun 1864 (Age 7 years) |
+ | 4. Sarah Rebecca Fisher, b. 08 Mar 1859, Pennsylvania , d. 23 Mar 1934, Robesonia, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 75 years) |
| 5. Amelia Catherine Fisher, b. 9 Jun 1861 |
| 6. Rosa F Fisher, b. 05 Jan 1865, Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 24 Nov 1960, Robesonia, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 95 years) |
| 7. Matilda Lucetta Fisher, b. 21 Mar 1872, d. 9 Mar 1873 (Age 0 years) |
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Family ID |
F00899 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Headstones |
| Fisher, Reily L. & Matilda B. (Reber) Our Mother Matilda B. Reber - Wife of Reily L. Fisher - Born Feb. 24, 1827 - Died Oct. 5, 1889 - Aged 62yrs 7mos 11days == Our Father Reily L. Fisher - Born May 12, 1882 - Died Jan. 28, 1903 - Aged 80yrs 2mos 16days |
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Sources |
- [S151] Montgomery Bios, Morton L. Montgomery, (. H. Beers & Company of Chicago, 1909), 880 (Reliability: 1).
Reily L. Fisher was born Nov. 12, 1822, in Heidelberg township, and in that locality passed all his long life, dying Jan. 28, 1903, aged eighty years, two months, sixteen days. He received his education in the pay schools which were in vogue during his boyhood, and at Collegeville, Montgomery county, and then for a short time assisted his father with the work on the home farm. Farming was always his principal vocation, but he was engaged in merchandising for a time, in his young manhood leaving the farm to become a clerk at Sinking Spring. Except as his work called him elsewhere, he lived at home until his marriage. After his marriage he was on the farm again for a year, and then embarked in mercantile business on his own account, at Sinking Spring, carrying on a general store for six years. Returning to the home farm, he engaged in its cultivation for sixteen years and then bought another place near by upon which he lived for fifteen years. Retir
ing from farming, Mr. Fisher lived at Wernersville for two years, and in 1889 he purchased the Madeira residence at Robesonia, in Heidelberg township, known at Maple Villa, which has since been the family home. It is now owned and occupied by his daughters, Amelia and Rosa.
Being successful in the management of his own affairs, and well known for his probity of character, Mr. Fisher was often called upon to act as guardian, trustee and administrator of estates, and his scrupulous regard for the duties of such trusts showed that the confidence of his fellowmen was not misplaced. He deservedly enjoyed the high esteem of all who knew him. He was a stanch Democrat in political sentiment. In his earlier years he was a member of the Reformed Church, to which his wife and family belonged.
On Jan. 23, 1851, Mr. Fisher married Matilda B. Reber, born Feb. 24, 1827 (daughter of Conrad and Magdalene (Bright) Reber, of Bern township), died Oct. 5, 1889. Seven children were born to them, viz.: Mary Magdalena, born March 13, 1852, married Albert D. Wenrich, a cattle dealer and farmer of Robesonia, Heidelberg township, and they had four children, Annie, Reily, Esther and Tillie; Samuel R,, born Jan. 10, 1854, is mentioned below; Annie Elizabeth, born Sept. 21, 1856, died June 7, 1864; Sarah Rebecca, born March 8, 1859, married Dr. David H. Hain, of Wernersville, and had three children, Edna, Estella and Raymond; Amelia Catherine was born June 9, 1861; Rosa Ellen, Jan 2, 1865; Matilda Lucetta, born March 21, 1872, died March 9, 1873.
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