Richard FISHER

• General Notes
  • Mama's laundry business got her another husband, Richard Fisher. He dealt faro at the Sixty-Six Club and was a sharp dresser. I admired the clothes mama washed for him, pastel-colored, silk, knit underwear, and silk shirts.
    In 1910 he married Mama and joined us at the hospital. Maybe Mama didn't approve of his job as a gambler; anyway he quit the club and signed on at the Shoshone Mine processing ore.
    
    Our four years at Rhyolite came to an end when Mr. Fisher decided to move to Tonopah. I was happy with my job as chief telephone operator at $75 a month, so I stayed, boarding with a family I knew. Letters from Mama said the high altitude in Tonopah made her sick. After six weeks I quit my job to join Mama in Tonopah. I'd been in Tonopah about six weeks when we moved to the Morris Ranch in Mason Valley. Mama wanted to get back to farming. *Mason Valley is now known as Yerington.
    
    *Grace was married in Mason Valley in March of 1912 and remained in Nevada all her life.
    
    On April 22, 1912 Richard Fisher filed for land in Alberta. Ralph Edie wrote the following exerpt:
    Two brothers of Mary Ellen Watson Fisher, Tom and Dan Jordan had already settled in the Sprucefield district and encouraged the Fishers to come north and file on nearby homestead land. Dan Jordan met the family at the Fort Saskatchewan railway station with a wagon drawn by a team of oxen.
    
    Two days were required to travel by ox team from Fort Saskatchewan to Sprucefield. Along the way the road gradually deteriorated to a mere trail through the bush. The road was characterized by numerous mud holes in which at times the wagon wheels became mired in mud and water up to the axles. Progress slowed to a standstill and the oxen were obliged to strain every muscle to inch forward. Commonly the road detoured around sloughs but along certain boggy stretches, where it was impossible to detour, the road had been made passable by surfacing it with logs laid together across the trail. At Sprucefield the summer of 1912 seemed to be unusually cool and Edwin wore his sheepskin coat most of the time to keep warm. A neighbor, Emmilia Flaska remembered, "While their new log house was being built on the homestead, four posts were set up with a canopy above, under which Mary Ellen cooked for the men who were building the house." While neighbors were helping to build their two-story log house – still standing on NE 24-60-20-4, a log slipped and broke the neck of Richard Fisher, and he died within hours.
    

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