
Fishers, NY.
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Fishers, Victor, Ontario County, Finger Lakes region, Upstate New York.
Fishers is a hamlet in the northwest corner of the Town of Victor, Ontario County, New York, United States. It is a small suburb of Rochester.
The community is south of the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90).
The town of Victor was established in 1812. Named after war hero, Claudius Victor Boughton
Victor - a Brief History by Babette Huber, Town Historian
Claudius Victor Boughton: Namesake and Mystery Man
By Preston E. Pierce
Historic Valentown Museum:
Victor History
Last Updated Saturday, September 02 2017, at 03:07 pm.
Victor, NY - Driving Tour Booklet Homesteads
Cobblestone Museum :
Cobblestone Photographs Catalog
Fisher Family Archives,
J. Sheldon Fisher’s collection; courtesy of Andrew Burdett & his 471 page PDF upload & share to his family tree website, OurNorthernRoots.com Person ID: I1
Democrat and Chronicle :Fishers homestead a significant site in hamlet by Emily Morry; Published 10:02 a.m. ET Oct. 28, 2015 | Updated 9:06 a.m. ET Oct. 30, 2015.
Daily Messenger:
HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY: Victor in the War of 1812
by Babette Huber Town and Village of Victor Historian
Published April 7, 2014.
There are 5 Cemeteries in Victor, NY:
- Boughton Hill (cemetery ID 707221)
- Dillman
- Saint Patrick
- Victor Village
- Fishers Cemetery (cemetery ID 2492588)
Fisher Family Abandoned Cemetery Victor, NY
— By Lewis Fisher, July 2021
“Of those still buried here in the Fisher cemetery, the one born the earliest would probably be John Fisher, a mariner who was born in Boston about 1740. He witnessed the trial of the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, participated in the Boston Tea Party, and was a veteran of the American Revolution.
In 1790 John and his wife, Bethiah, moved to western Massachusetts with their son Robert and his wife, Lucinda, who was the daughter of a Scottish immigrant. They were joined there by Lucinda’s sister Hannah and Hannah’s husband, David Barrett, and all moved west to a farm south of Cazenovia. In 1810 the two families moved further west to what became Fishers. The Barretts stayed but Robert and Lucinda Fisher went on to Henrietta, where Robert died in 1814. Lucinda was a widow in her 30s with eight children. She moved her family back to Fishers to be near her sister. Her brother-in-law David Barrett and her eldest son, Charles Fisher, then 18, built a log cabin that evolved into the Fisher Homestead.
The aging John Fisher and his wife, Bethiah, made the journey west with their children and grandchildren. They lived a short distance west down what is now Main Street. When they died they were buried across from the homestead in what was becoming the family cemetery, at the corner of what became named School Street and then Wangum Road near the Barretts’ cabin. Roads were rutted and often barely passable in those times, so it was easier for families to not travel to a large but distant cemetery and instead to bury their loved ones close to home. There is already a marker at another such cemetery, the Parks family cemetery up Main Street across Route 96.
As with many small family cemeteries, no written records were kept, so we cannot say for certain who is buried here. But it is safe to say that early graves include John and Bethiah Fisher, their daughter-in-law Lucinda Fisher, and several Fisher siblings, in-laws, children, and cousins.
Charles Fisher’s youngest son, William, inherited the Fisher Homestead. His next youngest, Henry, inherited this land across the street, which Charles Fisher had acquired when the Barretts moved west to Ohio. Henry Fisher married Lucy Bushman, daughter of a well-to-do farmer in Mendon named Abner Bushman and his wife Phebe. In 1885 the Bushmans wanted to build them a fine home on the property, but Phebe Bushman did not want her daughter living next to a cemetery. If they were to build the house, the cemetery had to go.
So brothers William and Henry Fisher moved eight of the most recent graves by wagon to the cemetery on Boughton Hill. These graves included their father, Charles Fisher, who had died in 1872, and his first wife, Rebeckah, who died in 1849. Other graves moved were that of their grandfather, Henry Pardee, elected as a Whig to four terms in the state assembly and who retired from Victor to Fishers, where he died at the Homestead in 1862.
Whether Henry Fisher’s mother-in-law ever figured out that there were still some graves left here we don’t know. But the gravestones were gone and the Bushmans built the house. Some of us remember Henry and Lucy Bushman Fisher’s daughter Clara Fisher living here when we were children. Clara’s second cousin Sheldon Fisher preserved the memory of the cemetery, which became Clara’s garden. Sheldon remembered flowers like heliotrope that were often planted in early cemeteries still growing here when he was young.”