Rufus R. Fisher, died 10 September 1913

FISHER, SELBERG

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 4/15/2011 at 07:15:24

A GOOD RESIDENT PASSES AWAY
MR. R.R. RISHER PASSES AWAY AT HIS HOME ON SOUTH JACKSON ST. TODAY.
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE
A Retired Farmer He Had Resided Here For Many Years and Leaves To Mourn His Loss Two Children.

A well known resident of the city in the person of Mr. R.R. Fisher passed away this morning at his home on S. Jackson street, where he resided with his daughter, Mrs. Cora Selberg. The deceased gentleman who was about seventy-five years of age, only buried his wife last spring and leaves to mourn his loss two children, Mrs. Cora Selberg of this city, and Mr. William Fisher of Colorado City, Colo. The latter was communicated with and will arrive in the city tonight when arrangements for the funeral will be perfected. The deceased gentleman who was a retired farmer was well known and respected in the city and for many years was tyler of the Masonic Lodge here.

[Mt. Pleasant Daily News, September 10, 1913, Page 3]

TIPPECANOE TOWNSHIP - 1879; From "The History of Henry County, Iowa.
FISHER, RUFUS R., farmer, Sec. 13; P.O. Mt. Pleasant; was born in Ohio in 1838; came to Henry Co. in 1855; located on the farm he now owns in 1873. He married in 1864 Elizabeth Maulding, a native of Iowa; have two children- Cora and William. Mr. Fisher lost his wife, and married in 1872 Paulina Clark, a native of Ohio. He enlisted in 1861, in the 4th I.V.C., and served four years; he was in most of the battles of that regiment.