FLETCHER, JOHN, was born about 1774, in Rockbridge county, Va. Job Fletcher, whose name heads the following sketch, was a younger brother of his. John Fletcher was married in 1803, in Augusta county, Va., to Elizabeth McElvain, a native of Lancaster county, Penn., and sister of Samuel McElvain. See his name. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher had three children in Virginia, and in 1806 emigrated to that part of Christian which became Todd county, Ky., where five children were born. They moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the spring of 1830 in what is now Ball township. The family, including his son Job, with his wife and child, consisted of eleven persons, and their first place of residence was a log cabin sixteen feet square, belonging to his brother Job, who had preceded him eleven years. Of their children--

JOB, Jun., or Capt. Job, as he was called in consequence of his military commission from the Governor of Kentucky, and to distinguish him from his uncle Job, only eight years older, and who was called Esq. Job. Job, Jun., was born Aug. 27, 1801, in Rockbridge county, Va., married Nov. 24, 1825, in Todd county, Ky., to Frances Brown, who was born in Kentucky, and moved, in connection with his father, to Sangamon county, arriving in the spring of 1830 in what is now Ball township, where they had six children. Of their eight children--MARY E., born Aug. 12, 1826, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Jason N. McElvain. She died Aug. 3, 1875, near Nilwood, Ill. Mr. McElvain resides there. MARGARET F., born Oct. 25, 1828, died in her eleventh year. JOHN S., born April 28, 1830, died Jan. 11, 1854. WILLIAM D. died in his fourth year. PRESTON B., born March 4, 1834, married Sarah Wright. They have two living children, ELIZABETH and LLOYD, and reside near Butler, Bates county, Mo. PAULINE K., born Feb. 15, 1837, Married Feb. 22, 1853, to Francis Ewing Dodds. See his name. They live six miles southeast of Auburn. BENJAMIN F., born Dec. 17, 1839, in Sangamon county. He enlisted Aug., 1862, for three years in Co. B, 114th Ill. Inf., and was captured at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10. 1864. He spent several months in Andersonville prison, and witnessed the breaking out of a spring, and confirms all that is said about it by Stephen. Bell. See his name. Mr. Fletcher was released at the end of the rebellion, and honorably discharged April, 1865. He was married Feb. 28, 1867, to Mary E. Drennan. They have two children, CYRUS O. and MARY F., and live at the homestead settled by his father in 1830, in Ball township, near Chatham. VIRGINIA A., born March 9, 1832, married March 20, 1860, to Charles G, Brown, who was born Oct. 4, 1829, in Jacksonville, Ill. They have two children, MARY C. and ROBERT F., and live in Pawnee township, six miles southeast of Auburn. Job Fletcher, Jun., and his wife celebrated their golden wedding Nov. 24, 1875, at the residence of their daughter and son-in-law Dodds. They reside part of the time at the homestead where they settled in 1830, and part of the time with their daughters and sons-in-law, Mr. F. E. Dodds and Mr. C. G. Brown. Capt. Job Fletcher at one time sold sixteen wagon loads of smoked hams and shoulders, in St. Louis, at $1.80 and $2.00 per one hundred pounds. It belonged to himself and Eddin Lewis. They hauled it ninety miles, and paid fifty cents per hundred for the hauling. At that time coffee sold for fifty cents per pound, sugar twenty-five cents, and calico fifty cents per yard; corn was worth six and a quarter cents per bushel, gathered, or four cents in the field. Capt. F. says the whole prairie country abounded with a kind of green headed fly, that was a great pest. In hot weather it was hazardous to attempt to drive a team over the prairie. From the Sugar creek timber to Carlinville, about thirty miles, was nearly always driven in the night. Instances are related of horses having been killed by exposure to those flies. As the country improved, the land drained, and the grass pastured down, the flies disappeared.

ANDREW, born in Kentucky, was killed by a falling tree in 1809, in his eighth year.

WILLIAM, born in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county Sept. 19, 1830, three days after the death of his father, in his twenty-third year.

JOHN, born Nov. 26, 1808, in Todd county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Ill., Jan. 28, 1834, to Theresa Abell. They had one child in Sangamon county, and moved, in 1839, to McDonough county, Ill., where they had one child. LUCRETIA B., born Dec. 26, 1835, in Sangamon county, died in her sixth year. JAMES A., born Oct. 26, 1839, in McDonough county, and went with his father to Kansas in 1857. As wagon master in the employ of the government, he crossed the plains ten times during the rebellion. He was married in 1871 to Miss Murray, has two children, GRACE E. and WALTER W., and live near Mound City, Linn county, Kansas. Mrs. Theresa Fletcher died in McDonough county, Ill., late in 1839. John Fletcher was married in the same county, March 9, 1841, to Sarah Bullington, who was born Jan. 31, 1817, in Orange county, Ind. They had six children in McDouough county, and, in 1857, moved to Linn county, Kansas, where they had one child. Of their seven children: JOHN S., born May 3, 1843, in McDonough county, Ill., resides with his mother, near Mound City, Kan. WILLIAM C., born March 10, 1845, in McDouough county, Ill., lives near Mound City, Kansas. LIZZIE J., born Jan. 22, 1848, in McDonough county, Ill., married in 1867, in Kansas, to Zalmon Kincaid, a native of Ohio. They have three children, RALPH, CHARLIE Z. and JOHN C., and live at Pleasanton, Linn county, Kansas. Mr. Kincaid is a merchant there. JOB H., born August 28, 1849, is engaged in farming and stock raising near Mound City, Kansas. ALBERT A., born Nov. 7, 1851, in McDonough county, Ill., raised in Kansas, and, in 1873, went to New York City, and is engaged in business at No. 60, Fulton street. ADALINE R., born Nov. 26, 1858, in Kansas, lives with her mother. John Fletcher died Jan. 8, 1864, near Mound City, Linn county, Kansas. His widow resides there. He spent several years as a school teacher, and was always interested in educational matters. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and superintended a Sunday school. After his death his widow filled the latter position for several years.

MARGARET, born in 1811, in Todd county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Ill., in 1833, to William Durley. He had previously been married to a Miss Mills, who died, leaving one child, Mildred M., born August 6, 1828, and who married George R. Laughton, in 1844, at Plattsville, Grant county, Wis. She died Jan. 8, 1864, leaving five children, George H., William R., Charles A., Adaline A. and Frank D., all of whom are living. William Durley died in 1835, and Mrs. Margaret Fletcher Durley died in 1836, leaving one child, ADELINE, who was born June 9, 1834, in Bloomington, Ill. She was married June 6, 1854, in Plattsville, Grant county, Wis., to Rufus A. Rice, who was born August 29, 1820, in Monmouth, Kennebec county, Maine. They have two children, FRANCIS ALLEN, born July 4, 1860, and EDWIN LEWIS, born Dec. 28, 1864, both in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Rice reside at No. 594, west Washington Street, Chicago, Ill.

REBECCA, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to David C. Brown. He died Oct., 1872, and she resides in Virden.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, unmarried, in 1837.

JANE A. born in Kentucky, married Leroy M. Paden, and resides in Macoupin county, near Nilwood.

John Fletcher died Sept. 16, 1830, less than six months after bringing his family to the county. His widow survived him twenty-eight years, and died in the fall of 1858--he in Sangamon county, and she in Macoupin county.