BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Page 503.

 
MRS. RACHEL FISHER is a daughter of Isaac and Phoebe (Kirk) Hollingsworth, 
natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania, respectively. Isaac Hollingsworth 
came to Ohio with his parents when he was four years old; the family 
located in Flushing where Isaac received as much schooling as was 
obtainable in those days to people in moderate circumstances. When he was 
thirty years of age he married Miss Phrebe Kirk, and they founded a home in 
Flushing township. Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth were members of the Hicksite 
Society of Friends. By hard work the husband accumulated a good property 
which he left his widow on his death, May 2, 1874. The wife died February 
5, 1877. The man and wife lie side by side in the Friends' cemetery at 
Flushing. Rachel was born December 12, 1835, living with her parents until 
her marriage in October, 1876, to Samuel Fisher, a son of Barreck Fisher, 
of Frederick county, Va. Samuel Fisher came to Ohio with his widowed mother 
and commenced farming upon the same property where his widow now lives. He 
was a prominent man in the township, having been township trustee, and also 
a member of the board of the Uniontown pike. He left a farm in the highest 
state of cultivation, the property consisting of nearly 400 acres. He was 
also a very successful sheep raiser. His death occurred February 3, 1886, 
and the sad event cast a gloom over the entire community, as his life of 
probity and kindness had won him many friends.