"A Life Well Spent. The Death of Mrs. Lucyette Fisher, One of the Oldest Residents of Cuyahoga County - A Widow for Twenty-Eight Years - The Funeral to be Held on Tuesday. Mrs. Lucyette Fisher, one of the oldest residents of this city, died Sunday morning at her residence in the Twenty-seventh ward, No. 118 Miles avenue. Mrs. Fisher was born in Hamilton county, New York, June 15, 1811, and was the daughter of Isaac and Rebecca Merrill. In October 1833, she married Alfred Fisher, of Independence Township. Mr. Fisher was one of the earliest settlers of Cuyahoga county, coming from Vermont to the Western Reserve with his father, Lloyd Fisher [birth record says father Jonathan Fisher], when a mere boy. Seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Fisher grew to manhood and womanhood, five of whom survive. They are Burr Fisher, of Kansas; Mrs. J. A. Hathaway, and Lloyd Fisher, of Independence; Mrs. S. J. Nye, of Elyria, and Miss Adah Fisher, of Cleveland. Mrs. Fisher was for nearly twenty-eight years a widow. She was one of the many mothers of Ohio who could measure the sacrifices of war by the empty chairs at her own hearthstone. Her three sons all went to the front, and one, Earl, the youngest, and a mere boy, never returned. Her husband, too, who went South to bring home the body of a brother, contracted a fatal sickness, and was never conscious after he reached Newburgh. Thus bereft and widowed, Mrs. Fisher reared her family at the old homestead at Independence. Fourteen years ago she came to Newburgh, now Cleveland, and passed her declining years cheered by the companionship of her daughter, Miss Adah Fisher. Her hands, relieved from the care of her own household, turned to the needs of the poor of the city, and she assisted Mrs. Dr. Phinney in her sewing school and also aided the Bethel work. All this charity, however, was carried on at home - the field of her four-score years of ceaseless activity and unselfish devotion. The funeral will occur Tuesday from her late residence on Miles avenue, at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. A. C. Ludlow, of the Miles Park Presbyterian Church, of which she was a member, will conduct the services."
- The Cleveland Leader and Morning Herald, July 29, 1890
"A Life Well Spent. The Death of Mrs. Lucyette Fisher, One of the Oldest Residents of Cuyahoga County - A Widow for Twenty-Eight Years - The Funeral to be Held on Tuesday. Mrs. Lucyette Fisher, one of the oldest residents of this city, died Sunday morning at her residence in the Twenty-seventh ward, No. 118 Miles avenue. Mrs. Fisher was born in Hamilton county, New York, June 15, 1811, and was the daughter of Isaac and Rebecca Merrill. In October 1833, she married Alfred Fisher, of Independence Township. Mr. Fisher was one of the earliest settlers of Cuyahoga county, coming from Vermont to the Western Reserve with his father, Lloyd Fisher [birth record says father Jonathan Fisher], when a mere boy. Seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Fisher grew to manhood and womanhood, five of whom survive. They are Burr Fisher, of Kansas; Mrs. J. A. Hathaway, and Lloyd Fisher, of Independence; Mrs. S. J. Nye, of Elyria, and Miss Adah Fisher, of Cleveland. Mrs. Fisher was for nearly twenty-eight years a widow. She was one of the many mothers of Ohio who could measure the sacrifices of war by the empty chairs at her own hearthstone. Her three sons all went to the front, and one, Earl, the youngest, and a mere boy, never returned. Her husband, too, who went South to bring home the body of a brother, contracted a fatal sickness, and was never conscious after he reached Newburgh. Thus bereft and widowed, Mrs. Fisher reared her family at the old homestead at Independence. Fourteen years ago she came to Newburgh, now Cleveland, and passed her declining years cheered by the companionship of her daughter, Miss Adah Fisher. Her hands, relieved from the care of her own household, turned to the needs of the poor of the city, and she assisted Mrs. Dr. Phinney in her sewing school and also aided the Bethel work. All this charity, however, was carried on at home - the field of her four-score years of ceaseless activity and unselfish devotion. The funeral will occur Tuesday from her late residence on Miles avenue, at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. A. C. Ludlow, of the Miles Park Presbyterian Church, of which she was a member, will conduct the services."
- The Cleveland Leader and Morning Herald, July 29, 1890
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