Fisher Family Genealogy

FARRIS Erma Isabel

Female 1886 - 1966  (79 years)


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  • Name FARRIS Erma Isabel 
    Birth 4 Aug 1886  Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    CENSUS 11 Jun 1900  Hire Township, McDonough Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Census: 1900 U.S. - Hire Township, McDonough Co., IL Roll  T623_320; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 57
    Census: 1900 U.S. - Hire Township, McDonough Co., IL Roll T623_320; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 57
    EVENT 25 Dec 1919  Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Erma Farris substitute teaching 1919
    Erma Farris substitute teaching 1919
    "Miss Marian Garvey is sick with a pretty bad casa of the flu and Miss Erma Farris, who is having a vacation from her school in Sciota is teaching for her a few days."
    EVENT 25 Jul 1933  Chicago, Cook Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Farris' leave for World's Fair 1933
    Farris' leave for World's Fair 1933
    "Miss Erma and Orie Farris, Wm. Farris and daughter, Ruth, left Tuesday a. m. for the World's Fair." This world for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
    EVENT 24 Nov 1949  Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Farris family Thanksgiving dinner 1949
    Farris family Thanksgiving dinner 1949
    Held at home of Mrs and Mrs. William N. Farris. Many family and relations attended. 34th wedding anniversary of William N. and Ellen Mae Farris (3 Dec 1949) also celebrated at the gathering.
    CENSUS 24 Apr 1950  Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • Living with sister Orie, next door to cousin Florence (Ashby) Fisher
      Lodger Fred Fisher living with them
      Marital status: never married
      Occupation: teacher
      Kind of business: high school
      Hours worked last week: 45
    1950 US Census, E.D. 55-3, Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL, p 2
    1950 US Census, E.D. 55-3, Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL, p 2
    Death 2 Apr 1966 
    Person ID I700  Main
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2023 

    Father FARRIS Nathan Ward,   b. 25 Aug 1855, McDonough Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Nov 1923 (Age 68 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother WOODSIDE, Emma Jane,   b. Jan 1862, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Apr 1933 (Age 71 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 15 Oct 1885  McDonough Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F431  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 4 Aug 1886 - Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCENSUS - 11 Jun 1900 - Hire Township, McDonough Co., IL Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEVENT - 25 Dec 1919 - Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEVENT - 25 Jul 1933 - Chicago, Cook Co., IL Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEVENT - 24 Nov 1949 - Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCENSUS - 24 Apr 1950 - Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Documents
    Farris squash vine busts record 1938
    Farris squash vine busts record 1938
    "The most exiting thing in Blandinsville this week is a squash vine down at the Erma and Orie Farris home in the south part of town. It was grown by Fred Fisher from seed which weighed a small fraction of an ounce. And it has produced something over 400 pounds of squashes...Fred showed us his vine one morning last week. It covers three square rods of ground, has a parent stalk as big as your arm and leaves that look like palm-leaf fans. It had 33 squashes on it which weighed as much as.60 pounds per squash. Eight of them weighed well over 300, and that's à lot' of squash." Had to say who deserves more credit. Fred planted it, but the vines grew and were probably watered and tended by the Farris sisters. Women in this time rarely get credit for anything.
    Erma Farris' horse killed 1907
    Erma Farris' horse killed 1907
    Erma's horse was hitched with another belonging to a Mr. Henry to a breaking plow to plow a garden at Erma's House. "...the Henry horse became fractious, pumped against the Farris horse, knocked it down and continued to plunge until it pulled the sharp point of the plow (held by Charles Fisher) into it completely disemboweling it....The horse was killed and put out of it's misery. This was a hard blow on Miss Farris as she teaches school at Robin Green and used the horse every day and can ill afford to bear the loss." A collection was taken up to buy Erma a new horse.

  • Notes 
    • Erma Farris appointed as executrix of Mary Ann (Farris) Fisher's estate on Mary's death in 1928: "LASTLY—I hereby nominate and appoint Erma Farris to be the Executrix of this, my LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, hereby revoking all former Wills and Codicils by me made. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal, this Fourth day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-four, (A.D. 1924)
      Mary Ann Fisher (signature) Seal"
      Erma also received a small stipend of twenty-five dollars and was appointed trustee for a monetary bequest to Mary's nieces Jessie, Madeline and Ruth, and a $100 bequest to the Blandinsville South Cemetery for the maintenance of the family graves. [6]
    • Erma B. Farris listed as informant on Mary Ann (Farris) Fisher's death certificate. [7]

  • Sources 
    1. [S88] Census: 1900 U.S. - Hire Township, McDonough Co., IL , (Ancestry,com), 11 Jun 1900, 5 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S623] News articles: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, (Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL), 25 Dec 1919, p 7 (Reliability: 2).

    3. [S623] News articles: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, (Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL), 27 Jul 1933, 3 (Reliability: 2).

    4. [S623] News articles: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, (Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL), 1 Dec 1949, p 8 (Reliability: 2).

    5. [S508] 1950 US Census, Illinois, (National Archives), 24 Apr 1900, 2 (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S25] Mary Ann Fisher, Will: Fisher, Mary Ann - 1928, 4 Jan 1924 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S472] Illinois Death Certificates, (State of Illinois, Dept. of Public Health, Division of Vital Statistics), 6 Oct 1928 (Reliability: 3).