Edwin Lafayette Fletcher (1861 - 1928)

Born 9 Aug 1861 in Lowndes County, Georgia

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Died 24 Sep 1928 at age 67 in Lowndes County, Georgia

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Biography

Edwin Lafayette Fletcher was born August 1861 in Echols Co., GA, the son of John Wesley Fletcher and Susan Elizabeth Dasher, who was the daughter of Edwin Dasher. E.L. Fletcher was only an infant when his father was killed in action in defense of his country at Boonsboro, MD, 14 Sept 1862, three days before the Battle of Antietam.

E.L. Fletcher married Mary Adeline Martin, the daughter of William Columbus Martin and Isabelle Peters. Isabelle was the daughter of John Daniel Peters and Adeline Copeland, from whom Mary Adeline Martin was given her middle name. Wm Columbus Martin, was severely wounded on 17 Sept 1862, at the Battle of Antietam, just three days after John Fletcher received his mortal wound. Wm C. Martin became Clerk of Cat Creek Primitive Baptist Church where the Fletchers attended. His sister married in to the Dasher family.

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• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmpid=47920451&GRid=78470492&
• Personal recollection of niece Maude Prescott, Statenville, Georgia. Interviewed 1975 by DCO.