Fisher Funeral Home Standard of Excellence Since 1885
Facts were taken from Inscriptions in Triumph
Compiled and published by:
Mae Breckenridge-Haywood and Dinah Walters
  • In 1931, John T. Fisher Sr. is listed as a Funeral Directory and notary. He is living with his wife Grace J. at 312 South Effingham Street. Marion J. Fisher, a student is renting at 312 South Effingham Street

  • John T. Fisher Sr. Funeral Director, Developer of Mt. Calvary Cemetery

The cemeteries of Mt. Calvary, Mt. Olive, Fisher's Hill and Potter's Field
  • General Burial Area on cemetery layout
    1. IDA BARBOUR
    2. WALTER RIDDICK, SR.
    3. JEFFERY WILSON
    4. I.C. NORCOM
    5. JOHN T. FISHER, SR.
    6. WILLIAM T. HALL

  • Fisher Hill Cemetery Grave Sites/Plots
    HALL FAMILY PLOTS
    WRIGHT FAMILY PLOTS
    PITTS FAMILY PLOTS
    GILES AND CUFFEE FAMILY PLOTS
    NORCOM FAMILY PLOTS
    GORDON FAMILY PLOTS
    GILHAN FAMILY PLOTS
    MINGO FAMILY PLOTS
    SMALLWOOD FAMILY PLOTS
    PLUS MANY MORE

  • Fisher's Hill name derives probably from the fact that many of the plots in that section were own by the Fisher family

  • Stated in the Virginian Pilot on June 25, 1998, that, "a plot plan for Mount Calvary...showed 13,000 gravesites

  • Old city records estimates: 6,500 graves at Mount Olive and another 15,000 in Fisher's Hill

  • Potter's Field gravesite count is unknown

  • Local African Americans who are buried there are dentist, composers, preachers, educators, shoemakers, military veterans of the Spanish American War, Civil War, and World Wars I and II and other wars

  • In 1883, Samuel Fisher Jr. had a wood yard at 214 Crabbe Street; his home was in Norfolk County.

  • In 1900, Samuel is listed as an undertaker living with his wife Rebecca at 312 Effingham Street. Their children listed at this time were Samuel, John T., Hattie R., and David A.

  • John T. Fisher Sr. led the Emancipation Parade held each year on January 1st and the Memorial Day Parade both on horse back