Historic Matagorda County, Volume 1 Page: 158
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gone, and there are no markers on the graves. The
medical diploma of Dr. Robert Holmes Chinn is on
display at the Matagorda County Museum.
DR. FREDERICK KENNER FISHER
Dr. Frederick Kenner Fisher was born in Matagorda
on May 22, 1852, and died in Galveston, Texas in
February, 1920. On the evening of July 12, 1877,
Frederick Kenner Fisher and Lucy Adelaide Selkirk
were married.
Dr. and Mrs. Fred Fisher lived in Matagorda and
later moved to Indianola, where Dr. Fisher was a
quarantine officer, until the town of Indianola was
destroyed by the storm of 1886. They then moved to
Galveston and built a home in 1888. It withstood the
<lveston storm of 1900.
One of Dr. Fred Fisher's brothers was Walter Fisher.
Tith the exception of one child, two-year-old Kenner,
A his nurse, Walter's entire family was lost in the
700 storm; Walter, himself, drowned trying to reach
home from town to be with his family. As he swam past
a drugstore, he called to the druggist, "If I don't make
it, tell my family I died trying to get to them."
On May 30, 1905, Frederick K. Fisher adopted
Frederick Kenner Fisher, the only surviving child of
Walter P. and Lillie B. Fisher, stating that, "he is a
minor and an orphan, both his parents having been
drowned in the storm of Sept. 8th, 1900."
The lives of Dr. and Mrs. Fred Fisher were shattered
when young Kenner died in 1913.
Adelaide Selkirk Secretan
DR. JOSEPH T. FRY
Dr. Joseph Talbot Fry was born in Franklin County,
Tennessee; the family later moved to Alabama. Dr. Fry
was in Texas by 1860. He was an excellent physician
with a large practice that took him practically all over
Matagorda County. He married Emily Talbot.
Mrs. Emmett Lawson said, "We consider him a good
doctor but he always wore a three tiered hat, hard as a
flint with green lining and my brothers called it a frog
stool."
The Fry family later moved to Richmond and then
Galveston.97
DR. ALBERT MOSES LEVY
Dr. Albert Moses Levy was born in Amsterdam,
Holland, in 1800, the son of Abraham Levy and
Cornelia Bernard. The family came to the United
States from England in 1818 and settled near Richmond,
Virginia. His brothers and sisters were: Isaac, Jacob,
Lewis, Esther, Mary, Julia, and Rebecca.98Albert Moses Levy, was graduated from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania in 1832, and first practiced
medicine at Richmond, Virginia, where he met and
married Maria Bishop Pine. They had a child, Rachel
Cornelia, and when Rachel was six months old, his
wife died. His brother, Jacob A. Levy, and wife,
Martha Ezekiel, took Rachel to raise along with their
own five children. When Rachel was grown, she
married Abraham Levy, her first cousin, the son of
Jacob A. Levy, with whom she was raised. She and
Abraham had six children, three of which died in
infancy. The surviving children were: Ada, Martha,
and Ernest.99
Brokenhearted from the loss of his beloved wife,
Albert Moses Levy went to New Orleans to visit
relatives; there he heard about Texas and its struggle
for independence. October 22, 1835, he joined the
Texas Navy aboard the schooner Brutus, transferring
to the Independence early in 1837. The Independence
was captured by two Mexican men-o-war and the crew
was thrown into a Mexican prison, from which Levy
escaped after three months of imprisonment.100 He was
given several grants of land for his services. In Llano
County he received warrant #664 for 1,280 acres of
land for his services, when he and his other men fought
with Fannin. Certificates #151 for 640 acres of land for
his participation in the Siege of Bexar, and #44 for one
league and one labor of land in Matagorda County on
which he decided to make his home.101
He married Claudenia Olivia Gervais, April 4, 1838,
the daughter of Judge Sinclair David Gervais.102 She
was born in Yazoo, Mississippi. They had five children:
Katherine Levy, born in 1839; Albert Gervais, born
November 2, 1840; Laura Virginia, born April 4, 1843;
Charles Gillette, born May 29, 1845; and Lewis Fisher,
born December 29, 1847.103
October 17, 1830, Albert Moses Levy deeded 428
acres of land situated on Jones Creek in Brazoria
County to his daughter, Rachel Cornelia Levy, who
was living in Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia, but
she never acknowledged the gift.'04 Dr. Albert was
Jewish and when he married a Gentile, his people
disowned him. This was probably the reason he
committed suicide May 22, 1848, for he and Claudenia
had become Episcopalians. He had a good practice and
was well-loved in Matagorda. After his death, Claud-
enia sold her home to Dr. Edward A. Peareson and
went back to Mississippi to be near her brother and
sisters and her other relatives.105
DR. EDWARD A. PEARESON
Dr. Edward A. Peareson (Pearson or Pierson) was
from Fairfield District, South Carolina. He received
his diploma from the literary and medical department
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