The son of Adam & Mary (Alver) Fletcher, in 1850 he was living with his family in West Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Catherine "Katie" Hein December 3, 1857, in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, and fathered Emaline (b. 04/25/58 - married a Johnson), Mary Ann (b. 12/??/59, d. 1860), Abraham (b. 12/22/60), Elizabeth (b. 1865, d. 1870), Henry (b. 1868, d. 1870), John (b. 1870), Catherine (b. 08/12/72 - married a Yingst), and Franklin Hein (b. 07/20/75). By 1860 or thereabout, he was a farm laborer presumably living in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, although he is not found in that census.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of twenty-eight in Carlisle October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 1 as a private with Co. A, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
In 1870, he was a resident of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, but moved back to Maytown, Lancaster County, the following year where he died from the effects of "diabetes."
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of twenty-eight in Carlisle October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 1 as a private with Co. A, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
In 1870, he was a resident of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, but moved back to Maytown, Lancaster County, the following year where he died from the effects of "diabetes."
The son of Adam & Mary (Alver) Fletcher, in 1850 he was living with his family in West Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Catherine "Katie" Hein December 3, 1857, in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, and fathered Emaline (b. 04/25/58 - married a Johnson), Mary Ann (b. 12/??/59, d. 1860), Abraham (b. 12/22/60), Elizabeth (b. 1865, d. 1870), Henry (b. 1868, d. 1870), John (b. 1870), Catherine (b. 08/12/72 - married a Yingst), and Franklin Hein (b. 07/20/75). By 1860 or thereabout, he was a farm laborer presumably living in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, although he is not found in that census.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of twenty-eight in Carlisle October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 1 as a private with Co. A, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
In 1870, he was a resident of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, but moved back to Maytown, Lancaster County, the following year where he died from the effects of "diabetes."
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of twenty-eight in Carlisle October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 1 as a private with Co. A, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
In 1870, he was a resident of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, but moved back to Maytown, Lancaster County, the following year where he died from the effects of "diabetes."
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