Display Patriot - P-158657 - Stephen FISHER/FISCHER
Stephen FISHER/FISCHER
SAR Patriot #:
P-158657
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR
Memorial plaque located at Boyle County, KY Courthouse, coordinates: 37.646160, -84.773420
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Author: James Edward Mitchell
Stephen Fisher [*aka Stephan Fischer (Hebron Church est. 1740, Baptismal Register -2nd Edition, Copyright 2004, John Blakenbaker @ P.O. Box 120 Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania 19317, see: Index, pg 45)] was the eldest of his brothers, *Adam Fisher (1740-1812) and Barnett (*aka Bernhard, Barrard) Fisher whose parents were Ludwig (aka Louis) Fischer and Anna Barbara Blankenbaker, see: The Garr Genealogy, Copyright 1894, Raisbeck Company Publ., 46 E. Street., Cincinnati, O., pg. 521. This record is taken from an entry made by [John Wesley Garr, i.e., John Calhoun Garr’s father] when he was in Virginia (VA) about 1849. Louis Fisher’s farm was mapped on a beautiful hillside, near a giant Chestnut tree neighboring the Gaar farms set off Mulatto Run from Gibbs Road to Camp Varsity, from Route 651 at Hebron (Lutheran) Valley on the Robinson River near the town of Madison, Madison County, VA.
Stephen was born during 1736 at the Virginia, Piedmont German and Robinson (River) colony. His father, Louis Fischer’s tract and farm was situated then at Orange County (Co), formed 1734 from Spotsylvania; Culpeper Co was formed 1749 from Orange and, Madison Co formed 1792 from Culpeper. Researchers note marriages, deeds and wills for surname: Fischer/Fisher records are recorded variously at the above, county Courthouses.
Stephen Fisher married Mary Magdalene Gaar, a daughter of (Adam) John Adam Gaar [Émigré (1711-1790)] identical with Hebron Church elder in Sep 1768, see: SAR Patriot #: P-333932 and DAR #: A042811.
All eleven (11) recorded descendants from Stephen and Magdalene (Gaar) Fisher’s union appear listed in The Garr Genealogy, Copyright 1894, Fourth and Fifth Generations, pgs. 62, 65, 74-76, i.e., Elizabeth (b. 1759), Elias (b. 1760-1845), Mary, Benjamin, Jemima, Agnes (Agatha) baptized 21 Mar 1776, Stephen, Jr., Susannah, Rosannah (b. 1781-1876), Elijah and Ann Mary (d. 1871).
Stephen Fisher and wife, Magdalene Gaar appear baptizing their child, a dau., Agnes on 21 Mar 1776 at Hebron Lutheran Church, est. 1740. Sponsors were listed as Adam Fischer, Stephen’s younger brother and Adam’s wife, Elisabetha Gaar, a sister of Stephen’s wife, Magdalene Gaar and Elisabetha Barbara Gaar Blankenbaker (b. 11 Feb 1730), her aunt, married Michael Blankenbaker; see, The Garr Genealogy, pg. 63. Recorded upon the same page in the Hebron Church Baptismal Register, pg. 14 were Stephen Fischer’s brother, Bernhard Fischer and wife, Eva Wilhoit (aka Willheit) baptizing a son, Caleb on 7 Jun 1776. Sponsors were Markus Finks, Bernhard’s brother-in-law married Eve Fisher; Adam Fischer, above; Christina Gaar Wilhoit (Willheit) a sister of Eva Wilhoit and Margaret Gaar Wilhoit. Eva’s sisters Christina and Margaret Wilhoit married brothers, Andrew Gaar (1750-1811) and John Gaar (1744-1808); source, The Garr Genealogy, pg. 68 and, Andrew-SAR Patriot #: P-333931 and John -SAR Patriot #: P-163337.
Stephen Fisher during 1777-79 voluntarily served in the war of the revolution as a Culpeper County, Virginia militia pack horse master for Colonels John Bowman (1738-1784) and a brother, Abraham Bowman’s Northwestern American frontiersman in the Illinois campaign (1778-79) led by VA militia commander, George Rogers Clark. Stephen Fisher received a serious wound to his shoulder while serving his militia duty in Kentucky (KY). Following the British Proclamation on 3 Sep 1783, notifying the world that hostilities had ended and the United States was now, free as sovereign and independent, Stephen sold his Culpeper Co., land and removed permanently in a wagon party to resettle at Mercer Co., KY where he died on approximately 20 May 1817.
Stephen Fisher’s will probated during Oct 1817 at Court in Mercer County, KY, is found online as a filmstrip recorded at Boyle Co., KY: “Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989 for Stephen Fisher Will, Vol 1-2, 1842-1897,” pg 59. His wife Magdalene (Gaar) Fisher was named in addition to daughters, Agnes Fisher Bigler, Ann Fisher Gaines, Susannah Fisher Slaughter, wife of Austin S. Slaughter and Rosannah Fisher Hardin, et al, sons, Elias Fisher, Benjamin, Stephen Fisher, Jr., and Elijiah. See: Stephen Fisher burial location at Bellevue Cemetery, 277 N. 1st St., Danville Nat’l. Cem., Boyle County, KY, 40442 at Latitude: 37.6522 and Longitude: -84.7686 and Find A Grave Memorial# 9424571
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