The Garr Genealogy , a very early book by J. W. Garr and J. C. Garr, gave the family of Lewis Fisher and his wife Anna Barbara Blankenbaker. Neither of these latter people is a Garr/Gaar descendant but several of their descendants had Garr ancestors. The Garr Genealogy gave the family as consisting of these children:
Adam, who married Elisabeth Gaar
Barnett, who married Eve Wilhoit
Stephen, who married Mary Magdalena Gaar
Eve, who married Mark Finks
Margaret, who married ____ Watts
(child), who married ____ Kalfus
Elisabeth, who married Nicholas Wilhoit
Similar errors were made in " Fisher Families of the Southern States ". Examination of several documents, including the Hebron Church Register , the will of Lewis Fisher, and the will of Adam Fisher, is helpful. These collectively show that there should be five children as follows:
Stephen, who married Mary Magdalena Gaar
Adam, who married Elisabeth Gaar
Barnett, who married Eve Wilhoit
Eve, who married Mark Finks, Jr.
Mary Margaret, who married Nicholas Wilhoit
The Hebron Baptismal Register and the Hebron Communion Lists show clearly that the name of the wife of Nicholas Wilhoit was Mary Margaret, not Elisabeth. Stephen, Adam, and Barnett appear frequently in the Baptismal Register as parents and as sponsors, especially for each other. Eve appears also in the Baptismal Register , not as frequently, but often enough to confirm her membership in the family.
The will of Adam and the approval of Adam Fisher for the marriage of his daughter to Frederick Kalfus show that two of the children given in the Garr Genealogy were grandchildren of Lewis and Anna Barbara, not children. On another page of The Garr Genealogy (page 519) there is a suggestion that a girl who would be the age of a daughter of Lewis and Anna Barbara married Michael Souther, but the book gives no child of Lewis and Anna Barbara who marries a Souther.
More details are given in
Beyond Germanna
on page 471.
(18 Jun 05)
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