Brief Life History of Samantha Elizabeth
When Samantha Elizabeth Fisher was born on 29 January 1851, in Licking, Ohio, United States, her father, Lenox Perry Fisher, was 31 and her mother, Martha Conaway, was 27. She married James Milton Coomes in April 1870, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Harter Township, Clay, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Stanford Township, Clay, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. She died on 22 March 1944, in Clay, Illinois, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Kneff Cemetery, Stanford Township, Clay, Illinois, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (20)
- Samantha E Coomes in household of James Coomes, "United States Census, 1900"
- Samantha Elizabeth Coomes, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Samantha Elizabeth Fisher Coomes, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1846–1926 Male
1851–1944 Female
Children (5)
1871–1958 Female
1872–1872 Female
1875–1963 Female
1878–1959 Female
1880–1882 Male
Parents and Siblings
1819–1900 Male
1823–1881 Female
Siblings (4)
1843–1889 Female
1845–1875 Female
1848–1924 Female
1851–1944 Female
World Events (8)
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
Age 5
1863
Age 12
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
Age 25
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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