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Don't know if you check this, but email is so common now, I don't think I'll
be using the post! Anyways, I'm a descendant of Samuel Fish. His son James E Fish had
a daughter; Nora Addie Bell Fish (B: 16 Jun 1874 Indiana, D: 1951-05-03 Shelby, Nebraska,
USA), who married my dad's father Wilber Frank Bennett (grandson of John Chester
Bennett). My dad, Gary, had me...
Samuel Fish's dad's name was Ebenezer Fish (B: 1782 Connecticut, USA D: Dec 1863,
Bloomfield Township, Lagrange, Indiana, USA) whose sons Samuel and William the first
Fishes to come to Indiana.
Decendants of Ebenezer and Hannah (MA) Fish are: Silvia M., Samuel, William, Anna Ma,
Lucindia, Elijah S (born in NY), Phebe Pedee and Betsey Ann. Pedee married Henry Forker 1
Oct 1844.
Here is a more detailed biography, in sweet lovely detail:
EBENEZER FISH was a native of Connecticut, born about 1782-3. By 1805 he married Hannah
GOODRICH, who was born in Massachusetts about 1779-80. Ebenezer and Hannah lived in New
York by the time their eldest child, Sylvia, was born in 1806. Their son William reported
that he was born in Madison County in 1810, and the Federal Census for that year confirms
that an E. Fish was a resident of the Town of Lebanon in Madison County, New York.
To date, attempts to connect Ebenezer to other Fish families in Madison County or
elsewhere have been unsuccessful. However, there is a cemetery record in the Town of
Lebanon for a SAMUEL FISH. The marker is undated, but the native stone and lettering
suggest it was placed prior to the War of 1812. Ebenezer's eldest son was named
Samuel.
By the summer of 1814, Ebenezer was living in the Town of Brutus, Cayuga County, New York.
In August of that year, he was drafted into service as a private in Captain Benjamin
Horton's Company of Infantry, and was engaged in the Battle of Fort Erie, Canada.
Ebenezer and his family remained in Cayuga County until about 1827, when they settled for
a short time in Shelby Township, Macomb County, Michigan.
By 1830, Ebenezer's sons Samuel and William settled in LaGrange County, Indiana, and
were soon joined by their parents and other siblings. Ebenezer and Hannah purchased eighty
acres on Pretty Prairie in Greenfield Township and lived there until about 1845. Their
final years were spent in the home of their daughter, Mrs. Henry B. (Pedee) Forker, in
Bloomfield Township. Hannah died in January of 1861 and Ebenezer in December of 1863.
Their gravesites are unknown, and they may have been buried on a family graveyard on the
farm.
According to the biography of their son William Fish (1882 History of LaGrange County,
Indiana), Ebenezer and Hannah had eight children. Census records indicate seven children,
three sons and four daughters. Of those, it appears the youngest child, a daughter, was
born between 1820 and 1825. Whether she died or married prior to the move to LaGrange
County is unknown. Of the remaining six children, all lived in LaGrange at least for a
while. They were:
Sylvia Maria Fish, born 1806 in New York, died in August of 1859 in Dowagiac, Cass County,
Michigan. She married first, Daniel W. Van Antwerp, probably about 1826 in Cayuga County,
New York. Daniel was born in 1800 in New York and died on September 13, 1838 in LaGrange
County, Indiana. Sylvia and Daniel had four children: Francis, born 1827 in Michigan;
Sylvia, born 1829 in Michigan; George W., born 1831 in Michigan; and William W., born 1833
in LaGrange County, Indiana. Sylvia married second, Thomas Vanderhoof, on November 16,
1841 in LaGrange County. He was born 1790 in New Jersey and died in 1851 in Cass County,
Michigan. Sylvia moved with her husband to Cass County, Michigan where two daughters were
born: Hannah, born 1845, and Emma, born 1849.
Samuel Fish, born on May 2, 1808 in New York, died May 24, 1881 in Bloomfield Township,
LaGrange County, Indiana. He was buried in Brighton Chapel Cemetery. He married first,
Elizabeth Leeper, on November 11, 1830, in Elkhart County, Indiana. He married second,
Julia A. Holley, in 1853.
William Fish, born January 13, 1810 in the town of Lebanon, Madison County, New York, died
on March 19, 1889 in Bloomfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana. He was buried in Plato
Cemetery. He married first, Mary J. Leeper, on November 28, 1833 in Elkhart County,
Indiana. He married second, Mrs. Margaret (Hanes) Wade, in 1846. His obituary appeared in
the LaGrange Standard on March 28, 1889. "Mr. Fish was one of the oldest pioneer
settlers of this county, visiting it in 1828, and locating a claim for 80 acres of land in
Greenfield township for which he afterward receive a patent deed. He took an active part
with the Regulators in 1857-8, in suppressing blacklegs and counterfeiters."
Lucinda Fish, born about 1814-5, probably in Cayuga County, New York. She married Reuben
Hayes on October 25, 1838 in LaGrange County, Indiana. He was born about 1812 in Ohio. The
family lived in Clay Township, LaGrange County. Six children appear on the census records
of 1850 and 1860: Lucilia (Lucinda?), born about 1839; William H., born about 1841; Betsy
(Becky?), born about 1844; Ira H., born about 1847; Eunice A., born about 1849; and James,
born 1859.
Elijah S. Fish, born about 1817, probably in Cayuga County, New York. He married Sarah A.
Debow on December 20, 1845 in LaGrange County, Indiana. Sarah was born about 1828 in
Pennsylvania. In 1850, Elijah and Sarah Fish were living near other family members in
Bloomfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
Phebe (Pedee) Fish, born about 1819, probably in Cayuga County, New York, and died after
1860 in Bloomfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana. She married Henry B. Forker about
1840, perhaps in Michigan. Henry was born about 1822 in New York and died on May 26, 1890
in Bloomfield Township. The family lived in Bloomfield Township. Six children appear on
the census records of 1850 and 1860: Cyrus, born about 1841; Adelia (Adeline), born about
1849; Emily, born about 1852; Elizabeth, born about 1854; Josephine, born about 1856; and
Mariah, born about 1858.
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