Fisher Family Genealogy
FISHER, Harry Leslie
1902 - 1980 (77 years)Ella Fisher working new Colusa
"Mrs. Orville Fisher writes us that she and her two boys are working near Colusa, and are doing the best they can. She is making a heroic effort to provide for herself and little ones."
This article indicates that Ella and children left Orville Fisher as early as 1914. Colusa here is Colusa IL, located near Dallas City IL about 20 miles from her previous home with Orville in Blandinsville. By 1918 Ella and Leslie have removed to Lyons, KS. That she is writing to the Blandinsville Star-Gazette to apprise them of her whereabouts suggests she retained friends in Blandinsville after leaving Orville. Given Orville's many alcohol-related criminal activities including the the attempted rape of 5 y/o Ester Bailey in 1906 for which Orville served three years in the Men's Penitentiary in Fort Madison IA, one imagines Ella's was a very tragic and sympathetic figure in Blandinsville and well supported in her leaving.
| Owner of original | Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, p 6 |
| Date | 16 Apr 1914 |
| File name | Ella Fisher working new Colusa.jpg |
| File Size | 38.16k |
| Dimensions | 676 x 282 |
| Linked to | News articles: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL; FISHER, Harry Leslie (RESI); FISHER Orville Benjamin; TYSON, Margreturite Ella (RESI) |