Elizabeth Talbott was born on 9. May. 1833 at Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of
Courtney Talbott and
Elizabeth Harp. Elizabeth Talbott married
James Fisher on 9. Sep. 1852.
Elizabeth Talbott and
James Fisher appeared on the census of 13. Aug. 1860 at Distict 1, Bourbon County, Kentucky; real estate value 6,750.00, personal property 2,600.00.
Elizabeth Talbott and
James Fisher appeared on the census of 22. Sep. 1870 at District 3, Fayette County, Kentucky; real estate 17,500.00. Elizabeth Talbott was shown in the census on 18. Jun. 1880 as a farmer.
Elizabeth Talbott appeared on the census of 18. Jun. 1880 at Dog Fennel, Fayette County, Kentucky; a widow. She died b 1924.
MRS. ELIZABETH FISHER, farmer, P.O. Lexington, is the widow of the James Fisher, to whom reference is made in one of the historical chapters of this work as the opener of an extensive and interesting Indian mound on his property near Lexington, and from which many ancient aboriginal relies were sent to the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. Mr. Fisher, who was a highly respected, enterprising and intelligent citizen, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, died in October, 1875, since which time his widow has herself managed, with efficient hired help, her farm of 166 acres, to which is given the name "Smithland." Mrs. Fisher is a native of Bourbon County, but when she was only two years of age, her parents removed to Fayette, where she has since had her permanent residence. Her maiden name was Talbott, and she is a direct descendant of an English-Scotch family of the name who came from Virginia to Kentucky at an early day, her great-grandfather, Samuel Talbott, settling in Clark County, between the Kentucky River and Boone's Creek. He had one son, Nicholas, whose mother died when he was but a child, and several other children by a second wife. Nicholas. Mrs. Fisher's grandfather, was a farmer, also a wheelwright and shoemaker. He represented his county in the Legislature, being in that body in 1821. His wife's name was Aria, daughter of John Kennedy, who had emigrated from Ireland and lived in Virginia during the Revolution. He was taken as a soldier by the draft of "the fifteenth man," and served his time in the ranks. Turning out again to repel an English attack, he was captured by the enemy at Guilford Court House, N. C., on March 5, 1781, and his death, on board a British prison-ship, on June 26, is said to have been from starvation. His daughter subsequently came to Kentucky, where an uncle, after living in the fort at Strode's Station with his wife and family for five years, on account of Indian incursions, had located, in 1785, on the stream now known as Kennedy's Creek. Nicholas and Aria (Kennedy) Talbott had a son called Courtney, born September 3, 1804, in Bourbon County. This lad learned shoemaking with his father, all the shoes, as well as all the furniture used by the family, being made at home. Excepting only four months in school, he was also educated at home by his father, while working at the shoebench or lathe. December 16, 1830, he married Elizabeth Harp, and for several years lived on a farm of his own near where he was born, but, in 1835, moved to Fayette County upon a farm of 200 acres, now owned by George Whitney, and known as "Pine Grove;" afterward bought a small but rich tract on the south side of the farm, composed of part of the Richardson estate; built, of material obtained on the farm and under his own supervision, a brick house, since remodeled by Mr. Whitney ; and brought up a family of four sons and six daughters-the surviving members of a family of thirteen children. He was one of the first volunteers for the Union, but was rejected on account of his age. In the spring of 1863, he moved to Indiana, and lived near Crawfordsville till his death, in his sixty-third year. He was a leading Mason for more than a quarter of a century. By his father's will, he had been made administrator of the estate, and also guardian of a feeble-minded brother, now cared for by his widow. In an active business career of thirty years' duration, he never incurred an obligation he did not meet on or before its maturity. Such was the father of Mrs. Fisher.
History of Fayette County, Kentucky, edited by William Henry Perrin, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1882; New Material Copyright 1979 by the Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Southern Historical Press, pp. 803-804.