Lisher, Oliver Bond                 Husband of Martha Ann(White)

Burial Date: 1896,  04/09                  Age:76               Lot: 130 K

Civil War

Obituary STERLING BULLETIN  April 1896

TO THE HIGHER LIFE

O. B. Lisher, father of Mrs. W. N. Hall, passed to higher life April 6, 1896, at the Soldiers’ Home at Dodge City, Kan., at the age of 76 years, 1 month and 15 days. His remains were brought to this city for interment.

He was born in Greenfield, Ohio, spent his early life in the State of Indiana, returning to Medford, Ohio, and was married to Miss Martha A. White, Oct. 3, 1844.  He leaves a wife and two daughters awaiting the call that will reunite them. Eleven children have preceded him into the spirit life.

They came to Sterling in 1878 for a short time and then went to California, where they lived the larger portion of their married life, returning to Sterling about two years, and finally with failing health he entered the Soldiers home, where he peacefully passed to spirit life.

He was a staunch, devout Spiritualist, and died not in a belief, but in the knowledge of the glorious truths of spiritualism, and gladly responded to the summons of the angelic messenger of death. He became very spiritual in the latter part of his illness, as if he had passed out of the body and was speaking from the other side, he communed with the good angels to the close of his life.

He was a teacher, writer and composer of music, and followed the profession until his health failed.  He served his country as a soldier in the late war, and since has been a member of the G.A.R.

Services were conducted by Rev. Thresa Allen, of Springfield Mo.

NAME	Oliver B Lisher
RESIDENCE	Indiana
ENLISTMENT DATE	2 Oct 1861
RANK AT ENLISTMENT	Band Leader
STATE SERVED	Indiana
SURVIVED THE WAR?	Yes
DEATH DATE	6 Apr 1896
DEATH PLACE	Kansas State Soldiers Home, Fort Dodge, Kansas

HARRIET A. LISHER was born in 1843 in Ohio, the child of OLIVER B and MARTHA ANN. She had one son with WILLIAM N. HALL on January 24, 1881.