Fisher, Peter 2
PETER FISHER
1850 Collin County census
#197 Peter Fisher 42? farmer 9000 PA
Elizabeth Fisher 29 MO
N. B. Fisher 10 m MO
J. E. Fisher 9 f MO
E. Jane Fisher 8 MO
P. L. Fisher 5 f MO
Jos. S. Fisher 2 m TX
Slaves
13 m black
14 m black
16 f black
16 f black
18 m black
PETER FISHER
Collin County in Pioneer Times, from the Brown papers
PIONEER TIMES, by D. B. Fisher, McKinney and Mrs. D. B. Fisher (nee Jennie Scalf), August 17, 1931
1844, or about that time, my grandfather, Peter Fisher, and his wife and family came to Texas from Pettus County, Mo. At the same time, Tinsley Roberts, grandfather of Mrs. D. B. Fisher, with his wife and children, came to Texas. They were about 3 months on the road, and crossed the Red River at Old Warren, which was a fort, as I understand it, north of Bonham. Peter Fisher stopped out east of McKinney, at a place now called Doggett Springs, (named for J. L. Doggett, now dead, who once owned the lands, and was a prominent lawyer in McKinney, and served as Internal Revenue Collector under President Grover Cleveland.) Tinsley Roberts stopped near what is now known as Fitzhugh Mills about 8 miles southeast of McKinney. Peter Fisher took up lands east of the present town of Allen – no Allen there then – Tinsley Roberts took his lands immediately north of Peter Fisher – his shown on the records as James T. Roberts, but it is the same man.
They had ox teams and covered wagons....
Shortly after their arrival, the Indians made a raid into the neighborhood, and grandfather Fisher heard of it, and at night he took his wife and two small children, the oldest 4 and the other 2 years old, and escaped to this old Fort on Red River. When they returned, they found that the Indians had murdered two young men – the Alred boys – who had come with them to Texas, and these two young men or boys are buried in a little grave yard about ½ mile west of the home of Wesley Morriss, and about 4 miles east of McKinney and at the curve in the road as it turns south on the Highway to Farmersville and about 1/4 mile south of the highway. Not used any more and has not been used as a grave yard for a number of years. There are possible 50 or 60 graves there. These boys were the first buried there. No tombstone or head mark at grave to show where or when or who they were.
1850 Collin County census
#197 Peter Fisher 42? farmer 9000 PA
Elizabeth Fisher 29 MO
N. B. Fisher 10 m MO
J. E. Fisher 9 f MO
E. Jane Fisher 8 MO
P. L. Fisher 5 f MO
Jos. S. Fisher 2 m TX
Slaves
13 m black
14 m black
16 f black
16 f black
18 m black
PETER FISHER
Collin County in Pioneer Times, from the Brown papers
PIONEER TIMES, by D. B. Fisher, McKinney and Mrs. D. B. Fisher (nee Jennie Scalf), August 17, 1931
1844, or about that time, my grandfather, Peter Fisher, and his wife and family came to Texas from Pettus County, Mo. At the same time, Tinsley Roberts, grandfather of Mrs. D. B. Fisher, with his wife and children, came to Texas. They were about 3 months on the road, and crossed the Red River at Old Warren, which was a fort, as I understand it, north of Bonham. Peter Fisher stopped out east of McKinney, at a place now called Doggett Springs, (named for J. L. Doggett, now dead, who once owned the lands, and was a prominent lawyer in McKinney, and served as Internal Revenue Collector under President Grover Cleveland.) Tinsley Roberts stopped near what is now known as Fitzhugh Mills about 8 miles southeast of McKinney. Peter Fisher took up lands east of the present town of Allen – no Allen there then – Tinsley Roberts took his lands immediately north of Peter Fisher – his shown on the records as James T. Roberts, but it is the same man.
They had ox teams and covered wagons....
Shortly after their arrival, the Indians made a raid into the neighborhood, and grandfather Fisher heard of it, and at night he took his wife and two small children, the oldest 4 and the other 2 years old, and escaped to this old Fort on Red River. When they returned, they found that the Indians had murdered two young men – the Alred boys – who had come with them to Texas, and these two young men or boys are buried in a little grave yard about ½ mile west of the home of Wesley Morriss, and about 4 miles east of McKinney and at the curve in the road as it turns south on the Highway to Farmersville and about 1/4 mile south of the highway. Not used any more and has not been used as a grave yard for a number of years. There are possible 50 or 60 graves there. These boys were the first buried there. No tombstone or head mark at grave to show where or when or who they were.
