Peter Fishburn

1839-1909 · McDonald township

Born 1839, McDonald township, Jasper County, Missouri

Died 1909

Father: John Fishburn

Mother: Faitha Ann Roark

Children include Vola

Peter Fishburn was born on 26 November 1839 in McDonald township, Jasper County, Missouri. His memorial names his parents as John Fishburn and Faitha Ann Roark. According to the 1883 county history, he grew up there and got a limited education at a pioneer school, before district or free schools existed.

In the Civil War he took the Union side. In September 1862 he joined the Seventy-sixth Regiment of the Enrolled Missouri Militia, a state home-guard force, and served in Jasper and Lawrence counties. That unit was reorganized as the Seventh Provisional Regiment in March 1863 and mustered as the Fifteenth Missouri Volunteer Cavalry that November. The Enrolled Missouri Militia was the state's home guard, called out against the Confederate raiders and bushwhackers who fought a guerrilla war across southwest Missouri. He was discharged on 30 June 1865. His grave records him as a corporal.

On 26 January 1865 he married Harriett C. Graham, daughter of Allen Graham. By 1883 he was a farmer and stock-raiser near Avilla, on 149 acres with a good farmhouse. His memorial lists the children John Allen (1866-1867), Nettie F. (1871-1940), Tilman Washington (1873-1926), Julia Faitha (1876-1940) and Ora Singleton (1882-1883). His daughter Vola, born in 1885, is named as his child on her own memorial.

Peter Fishburn died on 31 August 1909 and is buried in Avilla Cemetery, Jasper County.

Parents

John Fishburn 1807-1876

Faitha Ann Roark (1816-1880)

Children

Vola Melin (1885-1949)

Sources

Find a Grave memorial of Vola Fishburn Melin (1885-1949), Park Cemetery, Carthage, Missouri
Find a Grave, memorial 71884370, Vola Fishburn Melin, Park Cemetery, Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri
Proves: Names Vola Fishburn Melin's parents as Peter Fishburn and Harriett Graham Fishburn; gives her birth 11 Sep 1885 and death 8 Sep 1949.

Biography of Peter Fishburn, History of Jasper County, Missouri (1883)
The History of Jasper County, Missouri (Des Moines: Mills & Company, 1883), biography of Peter Fishburn, Avilla
Proves: Peter Fishburn, born 26 Nov 1839 in McDonald township, Jasper County, married Harriett C. Graham on 26 Jan 1865; four children were born 1871-1882. Published before Vola's birth, so she is not named.

Find a Grave memorial of Corp Peter Fishburn (1839-1909), Avilla Cemetery
Find a Grave, memorial 13344118, Corp Peter Fishburn, Avilla Cemetery, Avilla, Jasper County, Missouri
Proves: Peter Fishburn, 26 Nov 1839 to 31 Aug 1909, husband of Harriett Clementine Graham Fishburn (1842-1904); his listed children do not include Vola.

United States census, 1850, Sarcoxie, Jasper County, Missouri, household 49, lines 2 to 6; NARA M432; FamilySearch 1:1:MDZZ-B3J.

The History of Jasper County, Missouri (Des Moines: Mills and Company, 1883), McDonald Township, pp. 896 and 906 to 907; archive.org historyofjasperc00desm.

United States, Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, Missouri, 28 February 1907; FamilySearch.

History of Jasper County, Missouri (1883), sketches of Peter Fishburn and Reuben W. Fishburn, pp. 905 to 907, archive.org historyofjasperc00desm; 1850 United States census, Sarcoxie, Jasper County, FamilySearch 1:1:MDZZ-B3J; United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861 to 1917, FamilySearch; Find a Grave memorial 13344118

Find a Grave, memorial 13344118, photograph added by Betty Saltenberger on 5 Jul 2013.

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