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Jacob Henry Fishel (Henry, Tracy) “Jake” was born on November
9, 1842 MO5, IN2,
IN20 to Henry Fishel,
whose birthplace was listed as Germany; his death certificate had no
information regarding Jacob’s mother IN20. On the application for his marriage license in November 1915,
Jacob stated that he was born in Indiana on November 9, 1842 to Henry Fishel, a farmer who was born in North Carolina, and Tracy
Holland, who was also born in North Carolina IN21. The marriage application for his son
stated that Jacob Fishel was born in Johnson County,
Indiana IN21. Most census records indicate that he was born about 1843 in
Indiana, and he was born in Johnson County, Indiana according to his muster
record IN8.
Jacob Fishel was drafted as a private into Company K of the 99th Infantry Regiment on October 6, 1862 IN9, IN8, CI3, NU2 in Johnson County, Indiana by Captain
Webb for a term of nine months and mustered by Captain Miller at Indianapolis
on December 26, 1862 IN8. He
was twenty years old, with blue eyes, light colored hair, a light complexion,
and he was five feet, nine inches tall IN8.
Jacob was discharged on July 6, 1863 when his term of service expired IN9, IN8. Solomon Fishel
was twenty-four when he enrolled in the same Company on the same date for the
same term of service IN8.
The Report of the Adjutant General of the State
of Indiana listed most of the soldiers that served
in each company of each regiment, utilizing the information which was available
at the time (1866), but the name “Jacob Fishel” was
not among the soldiers in any of the eleven companies of the 99th Regiment TE6. This Report
of the Adjutant General did list two men with the Fishel
surname in Company K: “Fishel, David” of Johnson
County was recruited into Company K of Indiana’s 99th Regiment Infantry, and this record stated
that his muster date was December 26, 1862 TE6
(this was the muster date for Jacob). “Fishel,
Solomon” of Johnson County was recorded directly underneath “Fishel, David”, and his muster date was January 27, 1863 TE6; this conflicts with Solomon’s
handwritten record IN8. The
name “David Fishel” was not located in the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database,
nor was it found in the Indiana State Digital Archives. The Report of the Adjutant General probably
recorded Jacob’s name incorrectly. A Civil War Draft Registration record, dated
August 31, 1863, stated that Jacob Fishel, age
twenty-three, had already served in Indiana’s 99th Regiment US3. He was listed directly above Solomon Fishel, age twenty, who served in that same regiment US3. The ages of these young men were
recorded inaccurately.
The 99th Regiment Infantry was organized at South
Bend, Indiana in August and September 1862, and after
the men mustered on October 21, 1862, they received a command to travel to
Louisville, Kentucky, followed by Memphis, Tennessee DY1, HO10. As Jacob Fishel
joined on December 26, 1862, he would have been a part of the 99th Regiment’s assistance to General Grant in
the Central Mississippi Campaign in or near Tallahatchie, in which they
participated until January 10, 1863 DY1, HO10. Thereafter, the 99th
served along the Memphis and Charleston railroad on guard duty at Moscow and La
Grange until May or June 1863 DY1, HO10.
Moscow and La Grange are two small towns which are east of Memphis. On June 9,
they were ordered to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where they played a role in the
Siege of Vicksburg from June 14 through July 4, 1863 DY1, HO10.
A marriage license
was issued to Jacob Fishel and Eliza C. Fleener on
May 19, 1866, and their marriage was solemnized by Lewis Fritch, Justice of the
Peace in Brown County, Indiana on May 20, 1866 IN7, IN6, EA2. The enumerator of the 1910 census
recorded that Jacob was not a survivor of the Union or Confederate Army or
Navy, but this was an error. According to the census records, Jacob was a
farmer who was able to read and write. He and Eliza resided in Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana in May
1911 IN21.
On
November 6, 1915, Jacob remarried to Cordelia (Beacham) Prather
in Morgan County, Indiana; Cordelia was seventy years old at the time of the
wedding, and Jacob was seventy-three IN6, IN2, MO5, IN21. Jacob’s death certificate stated that his wife’s name was Cordilia A. Beechem IN20. In the 1930 census, Jacob stated that he owned his home but did
not own a radio, and that he was a veteran of the Civil War. A Civil War
Pension Record was filed on February 5, 1889 when Jacob was listed as an
invalid (application number 688292, certificate number
479163), and again on June 18, 1931, when Cordelia was listed as a widow
(application number 1696367) US4, NU2. Jacob died on May 25, 1931 TW1, JA4, IN20 at
age eighty-eight at 589 E. Morgan Street, Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana
from acute myocarditis due to sub-acute interstitial nephritis and was buried
in Centennial Cemetery in Martinsville in Morgan County IN20. His obituary appeared verbatim in two
different newspapers, and has been reprinted below TW1, JA4:
Jacob Fishel, age 88 years, died at his home on East Morgan street in this city Monday after a three weeks
illness with a complication of diseases. His death brings to
a close an eventful life, most of which was spent in Morgan, Johnson and
Monroe counties. The deceased served his country during the Civil war and
participated in many of the principal battles of the
conflict. He came to Morgan county more than
thirty-five years ago and has lived in and near Martinsville for three decades.
While physical
frailties prevented activity during the closing months of this life Mr. Fishel always displayed a keen interest in the happenings
in the neighborhood and city and was known by a majority of
residents of the city.
He leaves the widow,
nine children, Nelson, of Trevlac: Henry of
Martinsville: James, of Michigan: Ed, of Bedford; Mattie Sumners,
of Franklin; Emma Perry, of Indianapolis: Robert, of New Augusta: Ben, of near
Martinsville: and Minnie Russell, of Wilbur. A son, John, preceded his father
in death. There is also a sister, Mrs. Harry Smith, of
Indianapolis; and fifty-two grandchildren.
Funeral services will
be conducted at Centennial church in Green township by
Claude Cooper and John Jones Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 following short
services in this city at the home, 589 East Morgan street at two o’clock.
Burial will be in the Centennial cemetery.
Friends may call at
the home anytime this evening or Wednesday forenoon.
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1850 US
Census: lived in White River, Johnson County, Indiana.
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1860 US
Census: lived in White River, Johnson County, Indiana.
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1880 US
Census: lived in White River, Johnson County, Indiana.
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1900 US
Census: lived in Green Township, Morgan County, Indiana.
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1910 US
Census: lived on Colfax Street in Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana.
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1920 US
Census: lived at 589 East Morgan Street in Martinsville, Morgan County,
Indiana.
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1930 US
Census: lived at 589 East Morgan Street in Martinsville, Morgan County,
Indiana.
Eliza Catherine Fleener (Aaron, Frances) was born in February 1851
in Indiana UN14. The death certificate for “Kathern”
E. Fishel stated that she was born on February 28,
1851 to Aaron Fleener and a mother with the maiden name
of Wagoner IN20. The marriage application for her son,
James Fishel, stated that Eliza was born in Brown
County IN21. Eliza may have been known as “Catherine”, as
was alluded to in a 1967 obituary for her ninety-year-old daughter, Mattie Long
Sumner MA33.
She
was the mother of ten children, and all ten were still alive when she was fifty-nine years old, according to the 1910 census:
Nelson, Henry Aaron, John C., James Nicholas, Mattie D., Tilden Edward, Frances
Emma, William R., Benjamin H., and Minnie T. Fishel.
Eliza was still sixteen when her first child was born. Nelson “Bonypart”
Fishel was born on January 25,
1868 in Martinsville, Indiana to Jacob Fishel and
Catharine Fleener, and died from cerebral arteriosclerosis on December 15, 1948
in Jefferson County, Indiana; he also suffered from psychosis during the final
two years of his life IN20. Nelson
Fishel married Lucy A.C. Fleener on January 14, 1891
in Brown County, Indiana RE29. The
gravestone of Nelson B. Fishel, located at Bear Creek
Cemetery in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana, confirmed his birth and
death dates, and it was also inscribed with the birth and death dates of
Catherine A. Fishel (June 26, 1871 and July 31,
1929), which indicates that they were most likely married RE13. Henry “Arron” Fishel was born on December 11, 1869 in Bluff Creek,
Indiana, and died sometime after September 28, 1943 US27. His marriage record stated that Henry Aaron Fishel was born on December 11, 1869 to Eliza Catherine
Fleener and Jacob Fishel, and he married Blanche Cobb
IN7. John C. Fishel was born on June 12, 1872 in Indiana to Jacob Fishel and Eliza “Flener”, and
died on March 21 or 22, 1913 IN20. James Nicholas Fishel
was born on October 27, 1874 in Martinsville, Indiana IN6, JA5, IN2. Mattie D. Long Sumner was born on June 23, 1877 in Johnson County,
Indiana to Jacob and Catherine Fishel, and died on
her ninetieth birthday from congestive heart failure due to arteriosclerotic
heart disease and a fractured hip on June 23, 1967 IN20. The 1880 US Census recorded Mattie’s middle initial, “D”, and listed
the youngest Fishel child at the time, Tilden E., who was eight months old UN13. He later was called Edward Fishel,
and he was born on October 9, 1879 in Indiana to Jacob Fishel
and Catherine Fleener, and died on February 18, 1955
from bronchopneumonia due to metastatic lung cancer and prostate cancer IN20. The 1900 US Census enumerated Emma F. UN14, and this was Frances E.
(Fishel) Perry, who was born on August 25, 1883 MI20, MI6, married Warda Perry on November 28,
1897 in Morgan County, Indiana 1N19,
and died on September 11, 1979 in Almer, Tuscola County, Michigan MI20, MI6. William
R. Fishel was born on May 25, 1886 in Indiana,
and died on March 26, 1961 in San Diego, California CA83. Benjamin H. Fishel was born on September 20, 1889 (the 1900 US
Census indicated September 1888 UN14) in
Indiana to Jacob Fishel and Eliza
Fleener, and died of carcinamatosis due to
prostate cancer on September 13, 1955 in Martinsville, Indiana IN20. Minnie T. Fishel was born on February 9, 1890 in Johnson County
to Jacob Fishel and Eliza C. Fleener, and married
James O. Richardson on May 20, 1908 IN21.
Her surname was later Russell JA5.
Eliza
Catherine Fishel (“Kathern” E. Fishel)
died in Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana at age sixty-three on June 22,
1914 from pulmonary emphysema due to asthma. She had suffered from asthma for
approximately twenty-five years IN20. She was buried in Centennial Cemetery in Green
Township, northeast of Martinsville, Indiana CO18, MR4. Eliza’s
obituary has been reproduced below MR5:
Mrs. Jacob Fishel, aged sixty-three years, died Monday night at ten
o’clock at her home on East Morgan street, death
resulting from paralysis. She is survived by a husband, five sons, Nelson Fishel, of Brown County; Henry and Ben Fishel, of Exchange;
and James Fishel, of Brooklyn, and three daughters, Mrs. Mattie Long, west of the city; Mrs. Francis Perry and
Miss Minnie Fishel, of this city. A
number of grandchildren also survive. The funeral services will be held
at Centennial Wednesday morning at ten-thirty, burial at Centennial. The
remains will be taken from the home at nine o’clock Wednesday.
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1860 US
Census: lived in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana
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1880 US
Census: lived in White River, Johnson County, Indiana.
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1900 US
Census: lived in Green Township, Morgan County, Indiana.
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1910 US
Census: lived on Colfax Street in Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana.
Permission to reprint the image of Jacob Fishel’s gravestone was granted by the photographer, Ruth Fishel.
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Permission to reprint the image of Eliza C. Fishel’s gravestone, which is located in Centennial Cemetery, was granted by the photographer, Ruth Fishel.
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