Mary Belle Richey

Brief Life History of Mary Belle

When Mary Belle Richey was born on 11 July 1876, in Ohio, United States, her father, Thomas J. Richey, was 31 and her mother, Margaret Mc Fadden, was 27. She married Layfaette W. Fisher on 15 October 1896, in Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Richland Township, Logan, Ohio, United States in 1940 and New Richland, Richland Township, Logan, Ohio, United States in 1950. She died on 26 January 1954, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 77.

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Family Time Line

Layfaette W. Fisher
1861–1940
Mary Belle Richey
1876–1954
Marriage: 15 October 1896
Raymond Fisher
1900–1900
Harold R Fisher
1902–1973
Edwin Scott Fisher
1907–1974

Sources (16)

  • Mary B Fisher, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Mary B. Richey, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Mary Belle Ritchey in entry for Harold R Fisher and Mildred Dillon, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

Name Meaning

German: from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name based on rīc ‘power(ful)’ (see Reich ), or from the female personal name Rikheit, from rīc + suffix -heit ‘way of being’. This surname is rare in Germany.

Probably also an Americanized form of German Reiche or Ritsche (see Ritchey 2).

English and northern Irish: variant of Ritchie .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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