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EBENEZER FISH was a native of Connecticut, born about 1782-3. By 1805 he married Hannah GOODRICH, who was born in Massachusetts about 1779-80. Ebenezer and Hannah lived in New York by the time their eldest child, Sylvia, was born in 1806. Their son William reported that he was born in Madison County in 1810, and the Federal Census for that year confirms that an E. Fish was a resident of the Town of Lebanon in Madison County, New York.
To date, attempts to connect Ebenezer to other Fish families in Madison County or elsewhere have been unsuccessful. However, there is a cemetery record in the Town of Lebanon for a SAMUEL FISH. The marker is undated, but the native stone and lettering suggest it was placed prior to the War of 1812. Ebenezer's eldest son was named Samuel.
By the summer of 1814, Ebenezer was living in the Town of Brutus, Cayuga County, New York. In August of that year, he was drafted into service as a private in Captain Benjamin Horton's Company of Infantry, and was engaged in the Battle of Fort Erie, Canada. Ebenezer and his family remained in Cayuga County until about 1827, when they settled for a short time in Shelby Township, Macomb County, Michigan.
By 1830, Ebenezer's sons Samuel and William settled in LaGrange County, Indiana, and were soon joined by their parents and other siblings. Ebenezer and Hannah purchased eighty acres on Pretty Prairie in Greenfield Township and lived there until about 1845. Their final years were spent in the home of their daughter, Mrs. Henry B. (Pedee) Forker, in Bloomfield Township. Hannah died in January of 1861 and Ebenezer in December of 1863. Their gravesites are unknown, and they may have been buried on a family graveyard on the farm.
According to the biography of their son William Fish (1882 History of LaGrange County, Indiana), Ebenezer and Hannah had eight children. Census records indicate seven children, three sons and four daughters. Of those, it appears the youngest child, a daughter, was born between 1820 and 1825. Whether she died or married prior to the move to LaGrange County is unknown. Of the remaining six children, all lived in LaGrange at least for a while. They were:
Sylvia Maria Fish, born 1806 in New York, died in August of 1859 in Dowagiac, Cass County, Michigan. She married first, Daniel W. Van Antwerp, probably about 1826 in Cayuga County, New York. Daniel was born in 1800 in New York and died on September 13, 1838 in LaGrange County, Indiana. Sylvia and Daniel had four children: Francis, born 1827 in Michigan; Sylvia, born 1829 in Michigan; George W., born 1831 in Michigan; and William W., born 1833 in LaGrange County, Indiana. Sylvia married second, Thomas Vanderhoof, on November 16, 1841 in LaGrange County. He was born 1790 in New Jersey and died in 1851 in Cass County, Michigan. Sylvia moved with her husband to Cass County, Michigan where two daughters were born: Hannah, born 1845, and Emma, born 1849.
Samuel Fish, born on May 2, 1808 in New York, died May 24, 1881 in Bloomfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana. He was buried in Brighton Chapel Cemetery. He married first, Elizabeth Leeper, on November 11, 1830, in Elkhart County, Indiana. He married second, Julia A. Holley, in 1853.
William Fish, born January 13, 1810 in the town of Lebanon, Madison County, New York, died on March 19, 1889 in Bloomfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana. He was buried in Plato Cemetery. He married first, Mary J. Leeper, on November 28, 1833 in Elkhart County, Indiana. He married second, Mrs. Margaret (Hanes) Wade, in 1846. His obituary appeared in the LaGrange Standard on March 28, 1889. "Mr. Fish was one of the oldest pioneer settlers of this county, visiting it in 1828, and locating a claim for 80 acres of land in Greenfield township for which he afterward receive a patent deed. He took an active part with the Regulators in 1857-8, in suppressing blacklegs and counterfeiters."
Lucinda Fish, born about 1814-5, probably in Cayuga County, New York. She married Reuben Hayes on October 25, 1838 in LaGrange County, Indiana. He was born about 1812 in Ohio. The family lived in Clay Township, LaGrange County. Six children appear on the census records of 1850 and 1860: Lucilia (Lucinda?), born about 1839; William H., born about 1841; Betsy (Becky?), born about 1844; Ira H., born about 1847; Eunice A., born about 1849; and James, born 1859.
Elijah S. Fish, born about 1817, probably in Cayuga County, New York. He married Sarah A. Debow on December 20, 1845 in LaGrange County, Indiana. Sarah was born about 1828 in Pennsylvania. In 1850, Elijah and Sarah Fish were living near other family members in Bloomfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
Phebe (Pedee) Fish, born about 1819, probably in Cayuga County, New York, and died after 1860 in Bloomfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana. She married Henry B. Forker about 1840, perhaps in Michigan. Henry was born about 1822 in New York and died on May 26, 1890 in Bloomfield Township. The family lived in Bloomfield Township. Six children appear on the census records of 1850 and 1860: Cyrus, born about 1841; Adelia (Adeline), born about 1849; Emily, born about 1852; Elizabeth, born about 1854; Josephine, born about 1856; and Mariah, born about 1858.
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