Marjorie:
Do you have any information on Calvin Bowman? This is all so interesting.
Thanks
Elsie Simpson
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Subject: [INALLEN-L] Hannah (Bowman) Fisher bio.
Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, 1917, by B. J. Grisswold, V.11
Hannah Ann (Bowman) Fisher, widow of the late Samuel Fisher, long a
prominent
resident of Roanoke and herself one of the foremost women of the
community,
was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, Nov. 12, 1835, and is the
daughter
of
Henry and Harriet (Armstrong) Bowman, who were natives of Ohio and
Pennsylvania, respectively. Henry Bowman was a prosperous stockman all
his active
life.
He came to Indiana in 1853, at a time when travel was difficult and
only
hard
work was rewarded with any measure of prosperity. He drove the
family and
household possessions through from Ohio, the familiar ox team and wagon
of the
day being an important factor in the journey, and in 1852 bought a
tract
of
two hundred acres of wild land. They experienced all the rigors of
early
life
in the wilderness, subjected to the dangers from wild animals and
Indians, but
they fared well in spite of those difficulties, and became one of
the
prominent and well-to-do families of the community as the years passed.
Mr.
Bowman
was township trustee for a number of years, and also served some
years in
quiet retirement on his home place. Ten children were born to Mr. and
Mrs.
Bowman. Hannah Ann, the immediate subject of this review, was the
first
born.
Sarah is the wife of Thomas Crawford of Roanoke, Elizabeth is
deceased,
also
Malinda. Harriet Jane is the fifth child, Mary Elizabeth was the
next
born.
Mathias Walter, Henry, Calvin and Charles are all deceased. Hannah
Ann
Bowman was
married on July 4, 1859, to Samuel Fisher, the son of David and Sarah
Jane
(Wherry) Fisher, who came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in early life. Samuel
was
educated after the manner of farmers' sons. He came to Allen
county in
1853
and found work there, later buying a farm of eighty acres. It was
unclaimed
land, without a cleared spot large enough to erect a little home.
The
Fisher
home was the first plank house in the neighborhood finished
throughout in
black
walnut, that fine old wood of which so much was found in Indiana at
that
time, and the family lived there for many years. Mr. Fisher was an
energetic and
progressive man and gained a considerable prominence in his town
during
his
lifetime. He was a Republican and was township supervisor for seven
years. He
died on Jan. 14, 1911, and his widow is living on the old home
place
practically alone. They were the parents of eight children. Ivester lives
in
Huntington county. Harriett Amanda is deceased. Lucinda Alice became
the
wife of Hugh
McFadden and lives in Aboite township. Ida and Sarah Jane are
deceased.
Leona Dell married Cyrus Johnson and is a resident of Lafayette township.
Mary
Luetta is the wife of Albert G. Foulks, and Henry D. is a resident
of
Fort
Wayne and a conductor on the Pennsylvania road. There are eighteen
grandchildren
and eighteen great-grandchildren in the family at the present time.
Ivester,
the eldest child of Mrs. Fisher, has nine children, named Irma,
Edna,
Elva,
Eva, Esther, Marion, Lennie, John and Florence. Lucinda also has
nine
children, named Edith, Anna, Russell, Otis, Mode, Elizabeth, Fay, Lester
and
Wilma.
The great-grandchildren are as follows: Irma, eldest child of
Ivester,
now
deceased, left Helen, Eldon and Evelyn. Edna, the second daughter of
Ivester has
Audra, Francis and Ruth. Elda is the father of Harley and Maxine.
Linnie
has
one child, Wilhelmina. Edith is the mother of a son, Royal. Anna has
three
children, Hugh, Helen and Ethel. Etta has four children, Arval,
Mabel,
Glenn
and Wyburn, and the first born of these is the father of one son,
Arthur
Aaron. Mrs. Fisher has thus, at the age of eighty-two, the distinction of
being
great-great-grandmother, and she is still enjoying good health and
finds
much
pleasure in the contemplation of the activities of the younger
generation
that
have come up about her.