Typed by: Jan Shelfer
FISER, LEANDER WILLIS
Surnames: FISER, RIDGEWAY, BOWMAN
Leander Willis Fiser, b. on May 28, 1843 in Weakley Co., Tenn., a son of Willis
A. and Offa (Ridgeway) Fiser moved with his parents and other children to
Cherokee Co., Kansas in 1855. In 1861, he moved to McDonald Co., Missouri, where
in August, 1862 he entered the Confederate States Army, serving under Captain
Cummings with service west of the river until after the war.
When Leander arrived at Mooreville with his parents, one brother and three
sisters, he settled on a 400 acre farm near the town. On December 30, 1868, he
was married to Emma Bowman, b. ca 1850 in Alabama, a daughter of John Lewis and
Matilda Bowman of South Carolina. The couple had eight children: Anna, John
Franklin (died), Andrew L., Lillie, Emma, Marvin, Offa, and Catherine Fiser.
Leander was a Democrat, a member of the Mooreville Methodist Church and a school
trustee of the Mooreville school.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of these
Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County," compiled and edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 155, column 1.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission