Box 2

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Typed extracts. William (1859-1885) had moved to Pennsylvania where he started a plant nursery. He was visiting family in North Carolina where he died, probably from tuberculosis.

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Washington Railroad and Lumber Company, an English investment company, to Abraham Fisher

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Sarah Wright married Abraham Fisher in 1850. The title page includes the signature of her youngest daughter Eleanor P. F. Brinton. Inside cover has Sarah's signed temperance pledge. Contain list of books read, poetry (words to songs?), and note from mother to her children.

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Fragile, some letters from Sarah written sent from Cork, Ireland. She was in poor health and sailed home to visit her family in Ireland where she died. She is buried in Cork.

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Tydped carbon copies of rhyming letter sent between the siblings, transcript by Susanna G. Fisher

Scope and Contents Hard bound volume contains autographs and entries written for Sarah. Sarah M. Fisher (1856-1945) married Frederic White in 1899 and was a Quaker minister. Her youngest sister Eleanor later added a brief history of the family and her (Eleanor's) life before her marriage in 1901. Eleanor recounted the family's move to Malvern, Pennsylvania, in 1898 where she met the Brinton relatives and married David Brinton on 9 month 26. In 1950 when she was bedridden Eleanor wrote a short addition...

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Pocket diary journal of trip to New York World's Fair. Elizabeth (1863-1935) married Nathan Eugene Mizell, and they were active members of Goshen Monthly Meeting.

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An informal history of the family of her mother, Sarah Wright, with an affectionate recollection of her mother. The Wrights were early members of the Society of Friends in Ireland. Also photocopy of handwritten copy of family history by Samuel Wright (1820-1898).

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Includes typed copy of a newspaper account of the wedding of Anna and Charles Grimshaw in 1878; excerpt of a letter dated 5 month 1897 from Sarah M. Fisher describing the barn fire in North Carolina; consolidated chronology of the Fisher family from 1850 to 1945.