Misenheimer, Nolah Anzanetta

Class of 1901
Graduation Essay: “China and the Chinese”

Birth: 29 Jan 1883, Stanly County, North Carolina
Death: 3 Jul 1981, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina

Parents: 
Pearson Rowan Misenheimer (1858-1939)
Mary Jane “Mollie” Kimball Misenheimer (1862-1945)

Siblings:
Charles Brunner Misenheimer (1885-1959)
Ernest L. Misenheimer (1887-1974)
Whitson Kimball Misenheimer (1890-1919)
Vivian Virginia Misenheimer Burrage (1892-1985)

Spouse: James Luther Fisher (1873-1951)
Married: 24 Nov 1903, Copal Grove, Stanly County, North Carolina

Children:
Mary Katharine Fisher Kluttz (1905-1993)
Nolah Anzonetta Fisher Edwards (1913-2015)

Burial: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
Source: www.findagrave.com, 43934064.

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The Jacob Fisher Family, 1727-1958, Compiled by James L. Fisher, Arthur W. Fisher, and Hilbert A. Fisher, 1958, p. 317.

Mr. Fisher [James Luther Fisher] was married to Nolah Anzonetta Misenheimer, daughter of P. R. and Mollie Misenheimer on Thanksgiving Day, 1903. She was born in Stanly County and attended the Stanly County Schools, completing her education at Mt. Amoena Seminary, Mt. Pleasant, N. C.

Mrs. Fisher taught music at Bethany Academy, near Rockwell, N. C. and it was here that she met James Luther Fisher

Their children are Mary Katharine and Nolah Anzonetta.

Mrs. Fisher is very active in St. John’s Lutheran Church. She has been a Sunday School Teacher, a member of the Church Choir, President of the United Lutheran Church Women of St. John’s, pianist for the Primary Department, and a member of the Church Council. She has attended Sunday School every Sunday for forty years, which is the longest record held by any member of St. John’s Sunday School.

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The Concord Times (Concord, NC), December 4, 1903, p. 3.

Wedding at Copal Grove
Special to The Observer

COPAL GROVE N. C., NOv. 28. – Miss Nolah Misenheimer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Misenheimer, and Mr. James L. Fisher of Salisbury, were married on Thanksgiving evening at 4 o’oclock in Bethel church, Copal Grove, N. C. The bride entered the church with her cousin, Miss Pauline Thom, to the wedding march “Mendelssohn” played by Miss Pearl Randleman.

The bride was received at the alter by the groom attended by his brother, Mr. T. C. Fisher, as best man, where the ceremony was performed by Rev. Henry Fisher, president of Mt. Amoena Seminary, Mt. Pleasant, N. C.

The bridesmaids were Miss Edith Kimball and Miss Katie Fisher, and the groomsman Mr. J. M. Peeler and Mr. Charles Misenheimer. The ushers were Messrs. V. J. Barrier and Joe Ridenhour.

The bride was handsomely dressed in white with tulle veil caught with lilies of the valley and carried bride’s roses, the bridesmaids wore white and carried white carnations.

Before the ceremony a reception was given at the home of the bride, a large number of guests were present.

The home and church were beautifully decorated with chrysanthemums, English ivy and ferns. The bride and groom left for a wedding trip to Washington D. C.

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The Salisbury Post (Salisbury, NC), 21 Aug 1938, p. 4.

Homecoming for St. Peter’s

Gold Hill. Aug. 20 – People from several states will come here Sunday, August 21, for the homecoming at St. Peter’s church, which was organized by the first settlers at this community.

J. L. Fisher of Salisbury will be the principal speaker. He was formerly a teacher at the Bethany academy, only a short distance from the old church, and Mrs. Fisher, the former Miss Nola Mosenhiemer, was the music teacher.

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Memories of Mont Amoena Facebook.com group page.
By Denise Steward McLain

1901 Mont Amoena graduate Nola Misenheimer and her younger sister, Vivian (class of 1912), came from a small Stanly County community called Copal Grove. Have you ever heard of it?
I discovered that Copal Grove was a now-defunct postal town that operated from 1875 to 1905. It was located about four miles west of Richfield, near New Bethel Church.
After graduation, Nola became a music teacher at Bethany Academy in Rockwell, Rowan County. There she met fellow teacher James Luther Fisher. The couple married on Thanksgiving Day in 1903. James went into banking and eventually became Chairman of Salisbury Board of Wachovia Bank and Trust.
Nola devoted her life to their two daughters, Mary and Nola, and to St. John’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury. She sang in the church choir, served as President of the United Lutheran Church Women of St. John’s, was pianist for the Primary Department, and served on the Church Council.
According to the book The Jacob Fisher Family, 1727-1958, compiled by her husband James L. Fisher, Arthur W. Fisher, and former Mont Amoena instructor Hilbert A. Fisher, Nola had attended Sunday School every Sunday for 40 consecutive years by 1958, the longest unbroken attendance record of any member of St. John’s Sunday School. Since she lived another 23 years, it’s likely her record continued to grow!