Sophia Hale Camp

  General Notes:

GEN: Obituary from Minneapolis Tribune, Mar 6, 1915, p 13: "Mrs. Sophie C. Fisher of St. Paul was stricken Thursday afternoon with GEN: a hemorrhage of the brain while she was presiding as chairman of a meeting of the Soldiers Home Board of the Womens Relief GEN: Corps at the West Hotel. GEN: She was taken to Asbury Hospital, but did not regain consciousness and died early yesterday. GEN: Mrs. Fisher was a life member of the Corps. She was also Past Department President of the Minnesota Womens Relief Corps and GEN: had been for many years prominent in the work of the Corps throught the state. GEN: Mrs. Fisher was born in Sacketts Harbor, NY., 67 years ago. She lived there for thirty years, and then came to St. Paul where GEN: she has since lived. Her home was at 1505 GEN: Grand Avenue. She leaves her husband, C. W. Fisher, five sons and three daughters. C. D. Fisher lives in Minneapolis, A.B., GEN: R.F., G.C., and T.J. Fisher live in St. Paul. The daughters are Mrs. Mcmasters, Hibbing, Minn., Mrs. E. Scott, and Mrs. E. M. GEN: Mortensen, St. Paul." GEN: Obituary from St Paul Dispatch, Mar 8, 1915: GEN: "Honor Memory of Mrs. Sophie Fisher (P) Grand Army cirles of the state paid tribute today to the memory of Mrs. Sophie Camp GEN: Fisher, the Minnesota Woman's Relief corps leader, who died Friday, and whose funeral was held this afternoon from the House GEN: of Hope church. Services for the family were held from the home, 1505 Grand avenue, at 1:30 P.M. GEN: At the House of Hope, following the rites conducted by Rev. H. C. Cyearingen, the GEN: women of Garfield Relief corps of which Mrs. Fisher was a member, took charge of the service under the direction of Mrs. Marie GEN: Soule, the corps president, and staff. GEN: The pallbearers were William Mitsch, E. J. Sawyer, J. B. Morton, R. D. Dunwoody, A. M. Thompson and J. A. Boggs. Interment was GEN: in Oakland cemetery. GEN: Among those present at the services were corps leaders from Minneapolis, Le Sueur, Duluth, Mankato and elsewhere, including GEN: Mrs. Lodusky J. Taylor, past national GEN: president, of Le Sueur, and Mrs. Anna Van Campen, department president of Cannon Falls. GEN: Mrs. Fisher's husband, Major C. W. Fisher, is assistant inspector general in the department of Adjutant General Fred B. Wood, GEN: whose offices were closed today." GEN: State of Minnesota death certificate lists cause of death as apoplexy.

Sophia married Charles Wiley Fisher on 21 Feb 1868 in Sacketts Harbor, Jefferson Co., NY. (Charles Wiley Fisher was born on 22 Sep 1841.)