History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 577.
[Bourbon County]    [Ruddel's Mills Precinct]

THOMAS M. FISHER, farmer, P. O. Ruddel's Mills; was born May 3, 1827, in
Bourbon County, Ky., son of James H. and Sarah J. (Howard) Fisher, and
grandson of William L., whose father came from Germany.  William L. was
originally a brickmason, but was afterward a farmer, and lived to an
advanced age, having been the father of nine children; his son, James H.,
died at the age of thirty-six, having been a farmer, and leaving two
children, Thomas M. being the oldest.  Mrs. Fisher was afterward married
to John Dimitt, of Bourbon County, and is still living.  Our subject,
during ten years of his early life, worked at carpentering, but since
that time has been engaged in farming; he was married July 29, 1861, to
Miss Emma Barton, of this county, daughter of Abraham and Catharine
(Cumber) Barton, and has five children living: Nannie B., Maude E.,
James H., Adella and Edna M., and Lida Lee, dead; he owns 131 acres of
land and is a Democrat.

Fisher Howard Dimitt Barton Cumber
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