Grandpa Fisher

If I ever saw Grandpa Fisher, I don't remember. It would have been at some time that he visited Missouri as he had moved to Texas before I was born.

He sent cards and letters through the years, and I have one that he sent me when I was little. It was an Easter card with picture of a little girl sitting with her arms around a rabbit on each side. It’s funny. To be expected, the bunnies were little Jack Rabbits with those long ears!

This is what he wrote:

Robstown,Tex. The little Miss Gladys has been around for two years now and never come to tell grand pa what you were doing in Mo. so long. Some day I may hop in my aireoplane and sail up to your home and invite you to come to Texas and visit us a while. We could have lots of fun. We would visit the Big Water that has no bank on the other side and catch fish for dinner.   grand pa Fisher

About Grandpa William Fisher: 

Born in 1834, Madison County, Indiana. Died 1919 in Robstown, Texas. Buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Corpus Christi, Texas. His father, William, was killed in an accident (no record) when he was five years old. His mother (Lydia (Opdyke) Fisher) later married a widower, Henry Anderson, who had a daughter, Mary Edith, who must have been his only sibling. He met and married Melinda Alice Boyer. They had nine children, my dad being their youngest. Melinda Alice (Boyer) Fisher died when my dad was about seven years old.

Grandpa remained a widower for 10 years. He went back to Indiana to his birthplace on a visit where he courted and married the widow of Benjamin Wise (Ida Hirshenburger Wise). Benjamin's first wife was Mary Edith (Anderson), grandpa's half sister. Ida had three children: Donna, Ernest, and Cosmo, who came with them to Missouri.

Ida and William were the parents of two boys, Willis Allen and Estol Opdyke. They lived on the farm until 1910. They had a sale and moved to Robstown, Texas, where William’s son, Hiram, had gone a few years earlier and bought land.

Estol died at age 21 and Ida aged to 85; both are buried with William at Rose Hill Cemetery.

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