Class of 1919
Graduation Essay: “The Effect of the Great War on Christian Missions”

Mont Amoena teacher, 1922-1923.

Birth: April 30, 1901, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus, North Carolina.
Death: July 21, 1990, Stanly, North Carolina.

Parents:
James Henry Cornelius Fisher (1859-1933)
Leah Jeanette Blackwelder Fisher (1870-1965)

Siblings:
Katherine Brown Fisher Barrier (1899 – 1977)
Mary Virginia Fisher (1903 – 1978)
Henry Lee Fisher (1909 – 1971)

Burial:
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery
Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA

Source: www.findagrave.com, # 30082675.

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From North Carolina Nursing History – Appalachian State University
http://nursinghistory.appstate.edu/counties/cabarrus-county

Amy Fisher Barrier was born in 1901 in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina to Rev. James Henry Cornelius Fisher and Leah Janette Blackwelder Fisher.  Her father was a professor at Mount Amonea Seminary.  Barrier graduated from Mount Amonea Seminary, and soon after attended Marion College in Virginia.  Barrier officially graduated from Carthage College in Carthage, North Carolina.  However, she received her nursing degree from the Cincinnati General Hospital in Ohio in 1927.  This was after some thought of becoming a medical missionary to India.  Barrier worked in the hospital setting until moving into public health.  She completed the public health course at William and Mary College.  This took her to work at the Mountain Mission School near Chilhowie, Virginia.  Later she became the Lutheran Watauga Parish Nurse in Boone, North Carolina.  Barrier was sponsored by the Women’s Missionary Society.  Later the State Board of Health started the Health Department, and Fisher became an employee of the state.  She continued doing the same type of work in the community.  Barrier enjoyed her work in Boone, North Carolina, and later went to receive her Master’s Degree with a concentration in supervision and public health nursing at Columbia University.  Barrier excelled in this position and held many supervisory positions.  As her career grew she later became the Chief Nurse of the Public Health Nursing Section for the state of North Carolina.  She retired in 1967 and returned to her home town of Mt. Pleasant.

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Watch Amy Louise Fisher in action as a nurse while with the Watauga Mission to help Appalachian Mountain residents near Boone, NC, in 1934.

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675023109_Health-care-in-Appalachia_Nurse-Amy-Louise-Fisher_tooth-extraction_vaccination

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The Jacob Fisher Family, 1727-1958, compiled by James L. Fisher, Arthur W. Fisher, Hilbert A. Fisher, (Charlotte, N. C.; 1959), p. 142-143.

11-8 AMY LOUISE FISHER, b. Apr. 30, 1901.

Born and brought up at Mt. Amoena Seminary, Mt. Pleasant, N. C. Amy Louise Fisher graduated also from Marion Junior College and Carthage College. She took nurses training at the College of Nursing and Health, University of Cincinnati.

Public Health Nursing was the field she chose for her life work. it was her privilege to serve as school and community nurse at Konnorock Training School, Konnorock, Virginia and also as Parish Nurse, Watauga Lutheran Mission, Boone, N. C. When Wagauga County organized a health department the Board of American Missions decided to discontinue the support of the health work and released Amy to become the county nurse.

After a few years she was granted a scholarship for a year of study at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she received a Master of Arts degree in Public Health Nursing. Her next position was that of supervising Public Health Nurses in the Durham County Health Department. She served as Chief, Public Health Nursing Section, State Board of Health, for more than fourteen years. At her own request she was allowed to transfer to her present position of Public Health Nursing Consultant with headquarters in Cabarrus County at Mt. Pleasant. N. C.