BIOGRAPHY

HENRY FISHELL - OF OAKFIELD, NY

Henry Fishell was a native of Carlisle, Pa., where he resided 35 years, when he removed to Rush, Monroe County, NY, where he died at the age of 93 years. He married Catharine Cooley, of Pennsylvania, who bore him the following children: Folly, Katie, Betsey, Daniel, John, Henry, and Joseph. Joseph Fishell came from Pennsylvania to Genesee County in 1846, and died here in i868, at the age of 72 years He married Amelia A., (now 91 years of age, and living in Climax, Mich.,) daughter of Jacob and Katie (Keffer) Lighton, of Rush, N. Y., and his children were John, Mary A., Elizabeth, Eveline, Susan, Lydia, Catharine, Joseph, and Henry J. Henry J. Fishell, a native of Rush, N. Y., came to Oakfield in 1857. He married Sarah, daughter of William and Mary (Howard) Roderick, and his children are Charles, Eugene, Lydia J. (deceased), and Mary (deceased). Charles Fishell married Susan. daughter of Richard and Mary Galliford, of Oakfield, and his children are Harry, Raymond, and Burnie E. He is a resident of Oakfield.

FROM: Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890