Tombstone of Wilson S. Fisher Tunnel Hill Cemetery

D1 Wilson S. Fisher, born June 12, 1830, died June 11, 1907; Civil War Veteran; Wilson was raised by his step-father Abraham DeLong; married September 7, 1848 Catherine Ann Middleton born July 12, 1829, died August 4, 1906. Three children.

Wilson S. Fisher was a veteran of the Civil War. He served as First Lieutenant in Company B of the 170th Regiment, Ohio Infantry. He mustered in on May 10, 1864, and mustered out on September 9, 1864.

The Dennison Paragraph
Dennison, Ohio
June 12, 1907

Wilson S. Fisher

Wilson S. Fisher, Prominent citizen and Civil War Veteran Passes to the Life Beyond.

Captain Wilson S. Fisher, a prominent citizen of Harrison County, former railroad man, and veteran of the Civil War, died at his home between Philadelphia Road and Bowerston at 4:50 Tuesday afternoon, June 11, after an illness of Brights Disease and heart trouble.

The deceased was born July 12, 1830, and had he lived another day he would have been seventy-seven yeras of age. He was born on the farm where he died, and when a young man carried a chain for the surveyors of the old Steubenville and Indiana Railroad, now the P.C.C. St. L. Railway, which passes near the old homestead and late residence. During the building of the road he worked for the contractors of that section, and afterward became a road master, which position he held for many years. He was immediately acquainted with and officially associated with the promoters and early officers of the company, and was regarded by them as one of their most trustworthy and efficient assistants in the construction of what is now the Pittsburgh Division of the great Panhandle system. In later years he gave some attention to railroad work in various ways, but for the past fifteen or twenty years has lived a retired life, giving attention to his farm, coal and oil interest.

During the Civil War the deceased assisted in recruiting the 170th Regiment, OVI, commanded by the late Col. Miles J. Sanders, and was elected 1st Lieut. of Co. K. The regiment saw active service about Harper's Ferry and in the Shenandoah Valley, and participated in the engagement of Snicker's Gap, where several of the brave boys of the regiment lost their lives.

The deceased was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Middleton, Sept. 15, 1848. The wife died Aug. 4, 1906. They are survived by three children, namely, Edw. Fisher of Columbus, a Panhandle passenger conductor, M. D. Fisher of Carnegie, train dispatcher on his division of the same Road, and Mrs. A. F. Winchell of Dennison.

The funeral took place from the family residence at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13, with interment in the Tunnel Hill cemetery. The ceremonies were in charge of R. M. Lyons, Post GAR of which the deceased was a member.

Catherine Ann Fisher

Mrs. Catherine Fisher, wife of Wilson S. Fisher, died at her home at Fisher's Crossing, near Station 15, at 10:00 o'clock Sunday, [tombstone indicates Aug. 4], after an illness of one week, due to cholera morbus.

Mrs. Fisher, whose maiden name was Catherine Ann Littleton [Middleton] was born on her father's farm, within a mile of the place of her death, seventy-seven years ago. In Sept. 1848, she was united in marriage to Mr. Fisher. The fifty-eight years of their married life were happy ones.

In addition to the aged husband, who is in poor health, the deceased leaves two sons, W. E. Fisher, a Panhandle passenger conductor whose home is in Columbus, and D. M. Fisher, a train dispatcher of Pittsburgh, and one daughter, Mrs. Albert Winchell, of Steubenville.

In all her relations with her neighbors and her family, Mrs. Fisher was faithful to her duty. She was an ideal wife and mother and earned and deserved the love of those who knew her. She was a member of the United Brethren Church at Tunnel Hill and the funeral services were held there Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Rev W. E. Boetticher, pastor of the M. E. Church at Bowerston officiated.

Children of Wilson S. Fisher and Catherine Ann Middleton:

E1 William Edmund Fisher, born October 6, 1848, died September 15, 1924 ; railroad brakeman, passenger conductor; lived in Columbus; married Richanna F. Berryhill, born December 27, 1853 in Florence, Pennsylvania, died June 10, 1938 in Worthington, Ohio . Richanna was the daughter of Alexander S. Berryhill and Katherine Shipley.

E2 Clarinda S. Fisher, born January 19, 1853, died October 11 1915 ; married July 9, 1870 Albert F. Winchell, born November 29, 1847, died March 6, 1931 ; lived in Steubenville, Ohio. Albert Winchell was a railroad engineer on the Panhandle Railroad.

E3 Marion D. Fisher, born 1862; train dispatcher, lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in 1924 was living in St. Louis, Missouri.