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JOHN WESLEY FLETCHER from pp.293-294 HISTORY OF SCHUYLER COUNTY, Swanson & Ford:
John Wesley Fletcher, son of Edward and Elizabeth Fletcher, was born in Schuyler County February 29, 1848. He was married to Lottie D. Huskins, November 5, 1869, at Canton, Mo. They have the following children: Mrs. Nancy Audrey Erwin, aged thirty-nine; Paul Edward, thirty-five, a barber in Chicago; Mrs. Stella March, thirty-three; Mrs. Lettie George, thirty-two; Albert Reid, thirty, a barber in Tacoma, Wash.; Katie, twenty-nine; Fred W., twenty-eight, a barber in Augusta, Kan.; Ben L. twenty-five, overseer of country club, Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs. Ruby Maude Chisman, twenty-two, of Adair County.
Edward Fletcher was born in Cumberland, County, Ky., in November, 1824. Elizabeth Griggs in Adams county, Ill., about 1828.(sic) She died in 1862; Edward Fletcher married again the following year. He died September 16, 1908, aged eighty-four. John has three brothers living, Will, "Squire" or Elias, and Joe, of Fairmount, Mo., and two sisters.
Lottie D. Huskins was the daughter of John D. and Nancy Huskins, of Canton, Mo. She was born December 9, 1848. She has three sisters living. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher are members of the Christian church. He is an elder in the church at Fairview. He has been school director and road overseer for a number of times. Mr. Fletcher is a general farmer and stock raiser, and has a farm of a hundred and ten acres worth fifty dollars an acre, known as the horse shoe farm. In politics he is a Democrat.
(There is a picture in the book of J.W. Eugene Fletcher and his grandparents, J. Wl Fletcher and wife. I would be glad to send it if you contact me directly.)___________________
WILLIAM ALLEN FLETCHER pp. 296-297
William Allen Fletcher, a son of Edward and Elizabeth Fletcher, was born nine miles southeast of Lancaster, January 28, 1855. He lives on the W.B. Enyart farm, southeast of Queen City. Mr. Fletcher was married to Mary S. Strosnider, May 3, 1880. She died October 29, 1881, at the age of twenty. Mr. Fletcher was married to Dora Enyart August 2nd, 1885. They have six children Ezra Delbert, aged twenty-three of Hutchinson, Kan.; Mrs. Lucy M. Blodget, nineteen; L. J., seventeen; John Sherman, sixteen; William Sebron, ten, and Ruby Main, seven.
Edward Fletcher, the father of William Fletcher, was a native of the state of Kentucky, and was born in November, 1824. His wife, Elizabeth Griggs, was born in Ill. She died during the war, when W.A. was eight years old. Edward Fletcher married Harriett Angel the next year. He died in 1908.
Mr. Fletcher has three brothers living, Elias, John, and Joe, of Clark County, and two sisters, Isabelle, of Cincinnatti, Iowa, and Ellen of Kirksville. Dora Enyart was the daughter of W.B. Enyart. She is forty-seven years old. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher are members of the Christian church. He has served as road overseer, is a general farmer and stock raiser, and in politics is a Democrat.
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HENRY HARRISON GEORGE pp.300-301
Henry Harrison George, son of Henry and Elizabeth George, was born on the old George place, six miles east of Queen City, January 10,1873, He was married to Miss Lettie I. Fletcher December 15, 1896. They have four children: Iona Estella, nine; Helen Pauline, five; Evaline Lucile, three, and Mary Forrest, one year old.
Henry and Elizabeth George were both natives of Ohio. They were married in Schuyler County about 1862. Henry George entered forty acres of land on which our subject was born. He was a member of the Home Guards in the Civil War, and is now living in Queen City at the age of seventy-nine. His wife is sevent;y=five years old. Harry George has three brotheres living, Andrew, John, and Jim.
Lettie I. Fletcher was the daughter of John Fletcher, an old settler of Independence township. She is thirty-three years old. She and her husband are members of the Christian church. He has served as road overseer and school director. He and his brother own in poartnership four hundred and sixty acres of land worth fifty dollars an acre. They handle Delaine Merino sheep. In politics Mr. George is a Democrat.
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