Martha Fisher

Martha in 1956

Martha Jane McPherson (née Fisher; 1891-06-14 – 1958-08-29), nicknamed Grandma Mac, was my patrimaternal great-grandmother. The daughter of Richard Addison Henderson Fisher and Mary Caroline McClendon, she was born in Rhea County, Tennessee, and there married John McPherson Sr. on 1908-12-30. She had ten children, including my grandfather John McPherson.

Family

See John McPherson Sr. for a list of her children.

Death

She died due to a car accident while in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was thrown from a vehicle at around 4:30pm on 1958-08-29, and was taken to the Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead around 9:30pm. The causes of death were listed as “shock” and “multiple fractures and severe head injury”.⁠⟮1⟯FamilySearch She was 67.

She is buried in Buttram Cemetery in Dayton, TN, where she lived at the time.

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Ancestry

Footnotes

  1. FamilySearch

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