The Immigrant. The Judge Fisher Story

The Fisher Cemetery in Mississippi

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The pictures were provided by Mr. David Tharp via Mr. Jeff Cunningham. Thank you, gentlemen.

Here is what Mr. David Tharp says about the location of the cemetery:

The Fisher Cemetery in not on private property, but it is very difficult to find. It's across the road from a small Negro Church and cemetery, in an unmarked location. There's an indication of a passageway and you drive into the area and then very shortly after pulling off the main road you will see a path of sorts to your left. You walk down that path several yards (20 or 30 so, as I recall) and then keep looking to your right and hope and pray that the brush is not overgrown so much that you can't see the markers. There are no signs or makings anywhere.

Hiram Fisher was George Fisher's oldest son.

Is this cemetery on what was once The Twin Halls Plantation?

Judge Fisher obituary

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San Francisco City Directory 1863, George Fisher

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San Francisco City Directory from 1863 shows Fisher, George, Justice of the Peace 5th township/ward (see image below) Original document found online at "San Francisco Genealogy" web site.

Census Records on Judge Fisher from 1870

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CENSUS YR:  1870        STATE:  California       COUNTY:  San Francisco  DIVISION:  5th Ward-San Francisco  REEL NO:  M593-81       SHEET NO:  35B
REFERENCE:  17 Jun 1870    by Philip M. Backus;      POST OFFICE: San Francisco;    PAGE NO:  70
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LN  HN   FN  LAST NAME      FIRST NAME     AGE SEX  RACE  OCCUP.       REAL VAL. PERS VAL.   BIRTHPLACE       FOREIGN BIRTH  MONTH     MONTH     ATT.   CAN'T CAN'T DEAF M-21yrs VOTE-
                                                                                                              FATHER MOTHER  BORN      MARR.     SCHOOL READ  WRITE              DENIED
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 19  204  182 Greenhood      Otto           30   M    W    Marine Store/Ins Ag't    200       Mass                                                                          X
20  204  182 Wallace        Cha's W.       40   M    W    Marine Store/Ins Ag't              New Brunswick      X      X                                                   X
21  204  182 Fisher         George         78   M    W    Judge, County Court 250,000 50,000 Greece             X      X                                                   X
22  204  182 Austin         Joseph         40   M    W    Port Warden              5,000     Scotland           X      X                                                   X

An immigrant

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A revolutionary. A linguist. A propagandist. A diplomat. A spy.

An immigrant.

He hated empires, yet he had helped build the greatest empire of all.

"When a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along." -- Carl Sandburg

Historical Judge George Fisher

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George(Jorge) Fisher, a.k.a. DjordjeRibar, a.k.a. Djordje Shagich (1795-1873)"

....perhaps the best linguist living since he is a Greek and Latin scholar, and in addition to a knowledge of the Russian, Polish, Bohemian, Moravian, Slovack, Croatian, Dalmatian, and the language of Montenegrini, speaks with fluency the following tongues: his vernacular, the Slavano-Servian, the Hungarian or Magyar, the German, the English, the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian"--John Livingstonin Protraits of Eminent Americans Now Living, 1853."

We do not mean to suggest that George Fisher was as important as StephenF. Austin in the history of Texas. But we think it noteworthythat their lives were rather entangled. Each wanted much the same things for Texas. They worked at cross purposes, and each injured the other."--Parmenter, Fisher and Mallette inThe Life of George Fisher (1795-1873), 1959