When Matilda W. Blanchard was born on 19 January 1843, in Peoria, Illinois, United States, her father, Ira B Blanchard, was 35 and her mother, Voadicea Hathaway, was 31. She married Simeon L Fisher on 27 September 1860, in Peoria, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Center Township, Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1910. She died on 4 April 1931, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States.