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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



FLETCHER, JAMES, was born July 7, 1799, in Rockbridge county, Va., and was married there to Jane McElvain, a sister to Samuel McElvain. See his name. They moved to Adair county, Ky., in 1804 or '5, where they had eight children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Dec., 1828, in what is now Auburn township, where they had one child. Of their nine children--

JOB, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Nancy Chapin, moved to Galena, and from there to Williamstown, Chickasaw county, Iowa, where he lost his life from injuries inflicted by an enraged bull, in May, 1872. He left a widow and children residing there.

MARGARET, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Nov. 26, 1840, to Cary A. Patterson. They have two children. MARTHA A. married John H. Gates, and lives in Auburn township. MARGARET J. married O. F. Bettis. See his name. C. A. Patterson and wife live in Auburn township.

MARY died in Sangamon county in 1831.

JAMES W., born in Kentucky in 1816, and died in Sangamon county, July 6, 1864.

NATHAN, born in 1818, in Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Dec. 26, 1844, to Margaret J. Baxter. They have six children, MARY J., JAMES B., THOMAS A., MARTHA, HENRY and LUCRETIA--the two latter twins. Nathan Fletcher resides three miles southwest of Auburn.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to James H. Bettis. See his name.

JOHN R., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Margaret J. Kessler. He died August, 1870, leaving a widow and three children, four miles west of Auburn.

REBECCA J., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to W. M. Essex, and lives in Macoupin county, Illinois.

NANCY, born in Sangamon county, married James R. Patterson. They had six children, and the whole family died in Auburn township.

James Fletcher and his wife both died in Sangamon county.



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