Samuel Henry FISHER (*)
Page added 4 August 2022.
Birth: 17 August 1852
Christened: 1 July 1866, Saint John’s Parish, Broad Creek, Prince George’s County, Maryland
Death: April 1878
Burial: Old Providence Methodist Church Cemetery, Chapel Hill, Prince George’s County, Maryland cemetery (now also known as Chapel Hill Cemetery).
Headstone Text: Headstone no longer there or visible.
Parents: Robert FISHER and Martha FISHER (m. unknown)
Parents' Children:
Knocked overboard by a swinging boom on his sailboat traveling from Washington D.C. to his home near Fort Washington, Maryland. The tug Mary Lewis saw it happen and threw him a rope, but he was unable to grab it and drown.
Name is not shown on the “new” cemetery plot map, so it is assumed that he was buried in the older cemetery. A letter sent to the church in 1996 alerted us of this burial.
Family Information Compiled From: FindAGrave website (#), FamilySearch website (#MTRS-1RS), GenealogyBank, and family records.
m. = maiden name
(♦) = This person was included while working with the cemetery; no evidence yet that we are related.
Christened: 1 July 1866, Saint John’s Parish, Broad Creek, Prince George’s County, Maryland
Death: April 1878
Burial: Old Providence Methodist Church Cemetery, Chapel Hill, Prince George’s County, Maryland cemetery (now also known as Chapel Hill Cemetery).
Headstone Text: Headstone no longer there or visible.
Parents: Robert FISHER and Martha FISHER (m. unknown)
Parents' Children:
- Charles P. FISHER
- Sarah A. FISHER
- Julia Washington FISHER
- Susan E. FISHER
- Samuel Henry FISHER
- Francis FISHER
- Andrew J. FISHER
Knocked overboard by a swinging boom on his sailboat traveling from Washington D.C. to his home near Fort Washington, Maryland. The tug Mary Lewis saw it happen and threw him a rope, but he was unable to grab it and drown.
Name is not shown on the “new” cemetery plot map, so it is assumed that he was buried in the older cemetery. A letter sent to the church in 1996 alerted us of this burial.
Family Information Compiled From: FindAGrave website (#), FamilySearch website (#MTRS-1RS), GenealogyBank, and family records.
m. = maiden name
(♦) = This person was included while working with the cemetery; no evidence yet that we are related.
