FISHER:

Romeo H. Fisher, Walton, W. Va. Occupation: Oil Gauger, Eureka Thpe Line Co.

Ancestry and when they came as given by above named:

Win. Fisher was the youngest of a large family that came to the Kanawha Valley from near Philadelphia, Pa., sometime between 1800 and 1815. His wife was a Miss Samuels, and their children that I know of were: Greenberry Fisher, Leonard Fisher, John Fisher, Mary Fisher and another daughter, I do not remember name.

Greenberry Fisher was born near Sissonsville, Kanawha County, sometime in the year 1822. He married Miss Julia Koonty and they brought up the following sons and daughters: Elben Clark Fisher, Pleasant Summers Fisher, John Wesley Fisher, William Marion Fisher, Ulysses Grant Fisher, Virginia Fisher and Emma Belle Fisher.

Pleasant Summers Fisher was born near Sissonsville Oct. 18, 1852, and married Miss Columbia Ann Casto, daughter of Jacob Casto and Celia (Winter) Casto.

They brought up the following sons and daughters: Romeo H. Fisher, Vaught C. Fisher, Otis Otmer Fisher, Eva L. Fisher, Ava May Fisher, Clairmont Thau Fisher, Fernando Roscoe Fisher, Westa 0. Fisher, Bessie Bernice Fisher and Marion Bradford Fisher.

Romeo H. Fisher, oldest son of Pleasant Summers Fisher and Columbia Ann (Casto) Fisher, was born at Fairplain, Jackson County, W. Va., August 80, 1878, and married Miss Icy Howell, daughter of Columbus Howell of Route No. 7, Spencer, Roane County, Oct. 19, 1910. They settled at Walton where he had been employed two years by the Eureka Pipe Line Co., as an oil gauger and has been living there since. They own a home on Cunningham street and are the parents of one child, a daughter, Eloise Fisher, who is now 14 years of age and was a sophomore in Walton High School during the 1926 and 1927 term.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 518-519
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999