Brief Life History of Alice Margaret
When Alice Margaret Fisher was born in July 1857, in Union, North Carolina, United States, her father, John Wolfe Fisher, was 52 and her mother, Mary E "Polly" Starnes, was 43. She married Thomas Neely Walker on 18 February 1880, in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Steel Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States in 1880 and Gastonia Township, Gaston, North Carolina, United States in 1900. She died on 19 June 1907, in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Pineville, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States.
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- Mergaret A Fisher in household of John Fisher, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Alice Fisher - Individual or family possessions: birth: July 1857; Union, North Carolina, United States
- Alice Fisher, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
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1862 · Battle of Roanoke Island
On February 7, 1862, General Burnside's expedition started with the Battle of Roanoke Island. The battle was mostly fought by the Union and Confederate Navy's. This was a Union victory.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .
English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.
Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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