Ella Hollenbeck spent the first year of her childhood near her birthplace at Rankin, Vermilion County, Illinois, and about 1884 settled with her family on a large ranch in Keya Paha County, Nebraska. Ella's husband, "Joe" Fisher (1869-1908), whom she married in Keya Paha County on April 4, 1900, received his formal education in the country schools near his birthplace east of Liberty, Gage County, Nebraska. About 1890 Joe and two of his brothers, Ed and Frank, took up homesteads near the tiny farming community of Pine Camp, in Keya Paha County, Nebraska, on the eastern fringe of the arid "Sand Hills" region. Ella's sister, Laura Hollenbeck, became the wife of Ed Fisher, Joe's brother, and consequently the children of these two unions were "double cousins."
After Ella and Joe exchanged their marriage vows, they made their home together on Joe's Pine Camp homestead which, like most others in the area, had sandy, porous soil. For a time the young couple lived in a spartan sod house while a more permanent dwelling was under construction. In true pioneer fashion, Joe and Ella toiled to build up their farm and raise a family. But, despite their earnest efforts to get ahead, bad luck seems to have plagued them, as witnessed by crop failures and livestock losses.
The worst, however, was yet to come. Early in 1908 Joe and his brother, Ed Fisher, and brother-in-law, Ira Cline, were hauling ironwood logs out of a canyon near the family homestead when an unstable load of logs fell off a wagon and knocked Joe to the ground, causing him to strike his head. The injury proved fatal, and Joe never regained consciousness. He was 38.
Her husband's sudden and untimely death placed Ella Fisher in a calamitous circumstance. With the family's sole provider gone, Ella was faced with the responsibility of locating other means of support for herself and her four children, the youngest of which was born just three months after Joe's death. The two-thousand dollars Ella received from Joe's two life insurance policies helped, but eventually she was forced by necessity to turn to her relatives for relief. The Fishers lived for several years on Ollie and Emma Hollenbeck's big ranch in Keya Paha County, but in 1911 Ella settled with her children in the nearby village of Burton, where she served for a time as postmistress.
Like her husband, Ella Fisher was destined to die in her prime---in her case, due to a ruptured appendix. She was 32. During the illness preceding Ella's passing, her parents, Ollie and Emma Hollenbeck, had promised to care for her children should the need arise. This promise was upheld by the aging couple, and the four orphaned Fisher children became grateful wards of their maternal grandparents.
Ella and Joe Fisher are buried together in Rogers Cemetery, Springview, Keya Paha County, Nebraska.
After Ella and Joe exchanged their marriage vows, they made their home together on Joe's Pine Camp homestead which, like most others in the area, had sandy, porous soil. For a time the young couple lived in a spartan sod house while a more permanent dwelling was under construction. In true pioneer fashion, Joe and Ella toiled to build up their farm and raise a family. But, despite their earnest efforts to get ahead, bad luck seems to have plagued them, as witnessed by crop failures and livestock losses.
The worst, however, was yet to come. Early in 1908 Joe and his brother, Ed Fisher, and brother-in-law, Ira Cline, were hauling ironwood logs out of a canyon near the family homestead when an unstable load of logs fell off a wagon and knocked Joe to the ground, causing him to strike his head. The injury proved fatal, and Joe never regained consciousness. He was 38.
Her husband's sudden and untimely death placed Ella Fisher in a calamitous circumstance. With the family's sole provider gone, Ella was faced with the responsibility of locating other means of support for herself and her four children, the youngest of which was born just three months after Joe's death. The two-thousand dollars Ella received from Joe's two life insurance policies helped, but eventually she was forced by necessity to turn to her relatives for relief. The Fishers lived for several years on Ollie and Emma Hollenbeck's big ranch in Keya Paha County, but in 1911 Ella settled with her children in the nearby village of Burton, where she served for a time as postmistress.
Like her husband, Ella Fisher was destined to die in her prime---in her case, due to a ruptured appendix. She was 32. During the illness preceding Ella's passing, her parents, Ollie and Emma Hollenbeck, had promised to care for her children should the need arise. This promise was upheld by the aging couple, and the four orphaned Fisher children became grateful wards of their maternal grandparents.
Ella and Joe Fisher are buried together in Rogers Cemetery, Springview, Keya Paha County, Nebraska.
Ella Hollenbeck spent the first year of her childhood near her birthplace at Rankin, Vermilion County, Illinois, and about 1884 settled with her family on a large ranch in Keya Paha County, Nebraska. Ella's husband, "Joe" Fisher (1869-1908), whom she married in Keya Paha County on April 4, 1900, received his formal education in the country schools near his birthplace east of Liberty, Gage County, Nebraska. About 1890 Joe and two of his brothers, Ed and Frank, took up homesteads near the tiny farming community of Pine Camp, in Keya Paha County, Nebraska, on the eastern fringe of the arid "Sand Hills" region. Ella's sister, Laura Hollenbeck, became the wife of Ed Fisher, Joe's brother, and consequently the children of these two unions were "double cousins."
After Ella and Joe exchanged their marriage vows, they made their home together on Joe's Pine Camp homestead which, like most others in the area, had sandy, porous soil. For a time the young couple lived in a spartan sod house while a more permanent dwelling was under construction. In true pioneer fashion, Joe and Ella toiled to build up their farm and raise a family. But, despite their earnest efforts to get ahead, bad luck seems to have plagued them, as witnessed by crop failures and livestock losses.
The worst, however, was yet to come. Early in 1908 Joe and his brother, Ed Fisher, and brother-in-law, Ira Cline, were hauling ironwood logs out of a canyon near the family homestead when an unstable load of logs fell off a wagon and knocked Joe to the ground, causing him to strike his head. The injury proved fatal, and Joe never regained consciousness. He was 38.
Her husband's sudden and untimely death placed Ella Fisher in a calamitous circumstance. With the family's sole provider gone, Ella was faced with the responsibility of locating other means of support for herself and her four children, the youngest of which was born just three months after Joe's death. The two-thousand dollars Ella received from Joe's two life insurance policies helped, but eventually she was forced by necessity to turn to her relatives for relief. The Fishers lived for several years on Ollie and Emma Hollenbeck's big ranch in Keya Paha County, but in 1911 Ella settled with her children in the nearby village of Burton, where she served for a time as postmistress.
Like her husband, Ella Fisher was destined to die in her prime---in her case, due to a ruptured appendix. She was 32. During the illness preceding Ella's passing, her parents, Ollie and Emma Hollenbeck, had promised to care for her children should the need arise. This promise was upheld by the aging couple, and the four orphaned Fisher children became grateful wards of their maternal grandparents.
Ella and Joe Fisher are buried together in Rogers Cemetery, Springview, Keya Paha County, Nebraska.
After Ella and Joe exchanged their marriage vows, they made their home together on Joe's Pine Camp homestead which, like most others in the area, had sandy, porous soil. For a time the young couple lived in a spartan sod house while a more permanent dwelling was under construction. In true pioneer fashion, Joe and Ella toiled to build up their farm and raise a family. But, despite their earnest efforts to get ahead, bad luck seems to have plagued them, as witnessed by crop failures and livestock losses.
The worst, however, was yet to come. Early in 1908 Joe and his brother, Ed Fisher, and brother-in-law, Ira Cline, were hauling ironwood logs out of a canyon near the family homestead when an unstable load of logs fell off a wagon and knocked Joe to the ground, causing him to strike his head. The injury proved fatal, and Joe never regained consciousness. He was 38.
Her husband's sudden and untimely death placed Ella Fisher in a calamitous circumstance. With the family's sole provider gone, Ella was faced with the responsibility of locating other means of support for herself and her four children, the youngest of which was born just three months after Joe's death. The two-thousand dollars Ella received from Joe's two life insurance policies helped, but eventually she was forced by necessity to turn to her relatives for relief. The Fishers lived for several years on Ollie and Emma Hollenbeck's big ranch in Keya Paha County, but in 1911 Ella settled with her children in the nearby village of Burton, where she served for a time as postmistress.
Like her husband, Ella Fisher was destined to die in her prime---in her case, due to a ruptured appendix. She was 32. During the illness preceding Ella's passing, her parents, Ollie and Emma Hollenbeck, had promised to care for her children should the need arise. This promise was upheld by the aging couple, and the four orphaned Fisher children became grateful wards of their maternal grandparents.
Ella and Joe Fisher are buried together in Rogers Cemetery, Springview, Keya Paha County, Nebraska.
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