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- Joseph and Barbara Lutz Fischer wer born, raised, and married in Germany --- Bohemia --- Auystria --- we don't know just where. They had seven children; Charles, Theresa, Wenzel, Anton, Joseph, Ferdinand and Robert. In 1878, when Robert was still an infant, the family immigrated to America, leaving the two oldest children, Charles and Theresa, in the old country where they married and settled down to raise families.
Barbara and Joseph Fischer were lace-makers and excelled as Kloepplerins, or bobin-lacemakers. In America, however, Joseph was to take up farming and the family settled in Cicero Township, Outagamie County, near Black Creek. Barbara continued to make lace and her grandchildren will remember the hand-held wooden bobbins which were twisted and crossed over a pattern of pins stuck in a kloepplesuch to form the delicate border lace or doilies so much in vogue. However, Barbara didn't like the new life in America and threatened to return to Germany several times. When Robert was eleven, Barbara decided to return to the old country. She packed her bags, purchased her ticket, and as the train was about to arrive, Robert said to his mother that "evena stopmother wouldn't treat a son like this." Barbara stayed. She never did get to see her old home again. Diabetic, short, and very heavy, she lived to be 70 years old and died of pneumonia on Nov. 28, 1901. Her husband, Joseph, gave a stained-glass window in her memory to the newly erected St. Mary Church in Black Creek. It is on the laft side, second from the entrance. Joseph died almost a hear later on August 16, 1902, and was buried beside his wife in St. Mary Cemetery, Black Creek.
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1826 - 1902 (75 years)