By Lester Warren Fish
414 THE FISH FAMILY (to be filled in) 3201 Joseph8 Fish, who was in Massachusetts, possibly at Bethhemesh (a town which no longer exists), about the year 1800, settled in 1843 or 1845 near Kokomo, Ind., where he remained until shortly before his death, when he went to Vernon Co, MO. He d. in 1874, age about 74, near Nevada (probably Nevada, Iowa). He had a brother, (3202) Jonathan, b. at Behemish (Bethhemish?) in 1797, and d. intestate at Big Foote, IL in 1884, as engraved on his headstone. 3203 Thomas Jefferson9 Fish, son of (3201) Joseph, was b. near Kokomo, Ind., in 1843; d. at Chehallis, Wash., in 1934, age 91; had also lived in Iowa and Nebraska. (to be continued)
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3207 Lloyd11 Fish (Lester10, Otis9, Benjamin8), is a son of
Lester H. Fish of 3511 39th Ave., Minneaplis, Minn., and
grandson of Otis Elijah who was b. in Cattaraugus Co., N.Y.,
Apr. 30, 1840. The family had moved from Vermont to Peru,
Ind., and thence to Minneapolis, and according to the following
statement by Sarah9 (Fish) Dunlavey, sister of Otis Elijah, it
would seem that the Fish family left Cattaraugus in 1843. She
writes of herself: "Sarah Sophia Fish was b. at Cattaraugus, Sept.
1, 1842, and was 90 years old in 1938. Her parents moved to a
farm in Indiana when she was a year old. When she was twelve,
seven families drove through from Indiana to Minnesota, with
horses and oxteams, arriving at Elysian on Oct. 1, 1854."
Otis Elijah Fish enlisted in the Union Army while in Minnesota.
His father Benjamin8, had two brothers, Otis and
Lauren.
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