Table Of ContentDescendants and Ancestors of Cephas
Fisher Jr. (1812-1895)
by
Jackie L. Fisher
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Descendants and Ancestors of
Cephas Fisher Jr. (1812-1895)
Of
Henry County, Iowa
by
Jackie L. Fisher
Cephas A. Fisher Jr. was born in 1812 in Highland County, Ohio, the son of Cephas
Fisher and Rachel Stanfield. He married Mary Hoskins and moved to Indiana, then
settled in Henry County, Iowa. These Fishers were descended from Thomas Fisher
and Elizabeth Huntley, of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Revised Edition
2011
Wimberley, Texas
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Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr.
Descendants and Ancestors of Cephas Fisher Jr.
Copyright 2011 by J.L. Fisher
Reproduction is permitted.
Cover Photo: Dronfield Parish Church, Derbyshire
Published by Bryce Engelhart, Engelhart Printing, Wimberley, Texas
Site of Thomas Fisher‟s Marriage in 1713
Chester County, Pennsylvania
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Photo by J.L. Fisher, 2008
Emma Armer, a 12th-Generation Descendant of Thomas Fisher
In Kennett (Pennsbury), at the north end of Thomas Fisher‟s 1701 land from William Penn.
Photo by Jeff & Patrice Grossman, 2007
The Thomas Fisher house in West Brandywine, Pennsylvania, as it looked in 2007.
The oldest part, built ca 1740, is in the center, with later additions at each end.
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Preface
In 1968 we interviewed relatives, made a few searches, and distributed to our family a short “Fisher-Thornton
Family History.” We had managed to discover and record our Texas and Oklahoma Fisher ancestry back to
the Iowa Quaker Cephas Fisher, born in 1812 in Ohio, with parents somewhere in Pennsylvania. We had
also identified several generations of our other Fisher ancestral branches, including the Long, Kelly, Van
Tassel, Davis, Harp, Hartman and other families. At that point, we left off the research to concentrate on
raising our children.
In 1976, we obtained the newly-completed “Isaac Thornton (1817 - 1906), His Descendants and Some of His
Forebears,” by Beatrice Thornton Keeling and Wanda Willard Smith, which traces the Thorntons to the
English immigrant Hosea Thornton, born about 1695.
In 1992, we resumed the Fisher research when our daughter, Laura Armer, discovered the genealogy of
Cephas Fisher Sr. of Ohio, in the Mormon ancestral file. We soon established our connection from Cephas
Fisher Jr. and began to locate and study additional sources in the Mormon family history catalog. We
learned that our Fisher line had been studied before and was known back to Thomas Fisher and wife
Elizabeth Huntley, in the early years of the Pennsylvania Colony. We began a new study and resolved to
produce a new Fisher family history, documenting not only our Fisher relatives of the present and recent
generations, but also telling the story of who our Fisher ancestors were and how they lived. We decided to
include basic information on the Thorntons, but to leave the Thornton story to the Keeling-Smith book.
In the Mormon family history catalog, we discovered genealogies done by William Logan Fisher in 1839, T.
M. Potts in 1895, Anna Wharton Smith in 1896, B. F. Cummings in 1898, Pauline Leslie in 1960, and Thelma
Fisher in 1978 which addressed the genealogy of the early Fishers of Pennsylvania. Pauline Leslie seems to
have been the first to work out the descendancy from Thomas Fisher to the Ohio Fishers. We first studied the
source records, verified that the descendancy from Thomas is provable, and scoured the records for details to
take the story beyond the previous works. Then, in checking the ancestry proposed for Thomas, it became
obvious that no one had correctly identified his parents.
After several years of painstaking study, I believed in 1996 that I had found Thomas Fisher’s parents, who
would be our ancestral immigrants, and produced the first edition of this book. I ruled out some of the
published assertions and narrowed the possibilities for the ancestral connections. I now have accumulated
much more information and have a better understanding of who Thomas Fisher might have been. I have
removed most of the information that turned out not to be relevant to my line, and placed it in “The First
Fishers of Pennsylvania.” For those who may want to see the larger collection of research notes, see
“Searching for Thomas Fisher of Chester County, Pennsylvania.”
In other volumes, we have shared all the old photographs we could locate for these families; and produced
histories of the Francis Standfield, Samuel Standfield, and William Huntley families of Pennsylvania.
As promised in 1996, we have placed the completed results of our research in the Latter Day Saints
(Mormon) Family History Library, at the Clayton Genealogical Library in Houston, Texas, and other places.
The Mormon library catalog can be consulted at any of the numerous Mormon churches which have Family
History Centers, or at the Mormon library at Salt Lake City, Utah. We now have a website which contains all
of our findings and books, at www.cephasfisher.com.
Jackie L. and Janice (Thornton) Fisher Laura and Barry Armer
500 Brinkley Drive 15007 Hollydale
Wimberley, Texas 78676 Houston, Texas 77062
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of Henry County, Iowa
and Allied Families
(Revised Edition)
Table of Contents
Introduction 11
Generations
I. Thomas Fisher Sr. 33
II. Thomas Fisher and Elizabeth Huntley 49
III. James Fisher Sr. and Alice Standfield 95
IV. James Fisher Jr. and Jane Atkinson 105
V. Cephas Fisher Sr. and Rachel Stanfield 115
VI. Cephas A. Fisher Jr. and Mary Hoskins 123
VII. Samuel Fisher and Effie Van Tassell 133
VIII. Florance Clinton Fisher Sr. and Grace Minett Long 141
IX. Woodford Pascal Fisher Sr. and Dorothy Berneice Kelly 147
X. Jackie Lynn Fisher and Janice Gayle Thornton 153
XI. Children of Jackie and Janice Fisher 155
XII. Grandchildren of Jackie and Janice Fisher 157
Appendix
Proof of the Lineage 161
Genealogical Charts
Fisher Pedigree Charts 163
Hoskins/Hodgekins/Van Tassel/Long/Harp/Smith PedigreeCharts 167
Atkinson Pedigree Chart 171
Kelly/Davis/Hartman/Green Pedigree Charts 173
Fisher Descendancy Chart 177
Branch Descendancy Charts 201
Thornton Descendancy Chart 231
Blackmon Descendancy Chart 237
References and Notes 241
Index 265
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Description:Thomas Fisher, co-warrantee with Thomas Robinson of the Kennett .. 1727 In 1727, a Thomas Robinson died intestate at Ridley in Chester County.
