Some Descendants of Jesse Fletcher (Timothy, Joseph, Joshua, William, Robert) and Lucy Keyes of Ludlow, Windsor, Vermont

1. Charlotte Fletcher was born on 23 Nov 1782 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk] She died on 22 Feb 1795, age 12. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk] She is buried in the Pleasant View Cemtery in Ludlow. Click here to see a photo of her gravestone.
2. Stephen Fletcher was born in 1784. [Ref] He died in 18 Feb 1790 [Ref], age 6, in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk] He is buried in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Ludlow. [Ref] Click here to see a photo of his gravestone.
3. Michael Fletcher was born on 12 Feb 1785. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk] He died on 13 Aug 1859. [Ref] He is buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. [Ref] He married Sally Fowle. [SARA, number 37767] Sally was the daughter of Samuel Fowle and Rachel Lawrence. [SARA, number 37767] She was the granddaughter of Joseph Fowle and Sarah Taylor and the great-granddaughter of Samuel Fowle and Susanna Reed. [SARA, number 37767] He married (second?) Elizabeth Todd. [Ref] She died on 8 Aug 1853, age 63. [Ref] She is buried with her husband. Click here to see a photo of their gravestone.
   In 1850 Michael and Elizabeth were living in Indianapolis. Michael was a farmer, born in Vermont, with real estate worth $2,000. [C1850]
4. Fanny Fletcher was born on 14 May 1786 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk] She married Dr. Calvin Bliss. [CFFC]
5. Jesse Fletcher was born on 21 Sep 1787 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk]
6. Elijah Fletcher was born on 28 Jul 1789 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk]
7. Timothy Fletcher was born on 10 Mar 1791 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk] He died on 29 Jul 1870 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk] He is buried in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Ludlow. Click here to see a photo of his gravestone.
8. Lucy Fletcher was born on 25 Jun 1792 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk]
9. Stephen Fletcher was born on 10 Jan 1794 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk]
10. Lorania Fletcher was born on 1 Sep 1795 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk]
11. Calvin Fletcher was born on 4 Feb1798 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk] He died on 26 May 1866 [SARA, number 46440, only the year] from injuries sustained from falling off a horse [CFFC, 2 May] in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. [Ref] He is buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. Click here to see a photo of his gravestone. He married first Sarah Hill in 1821 [SARA, number 46440] in Urbana, Ohio. [CFFC, no date] Sarah was the daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Oliver) Hill of Urbana. [CFFC] She was born on 21 Nov 1801 [SARA, number 46440, only the year] in Fleming county, Kentucky. [Ref] She died on 27 Sep 1854 [SARA, number 46440, only the year], peacefully, following great abdominal pain, [CFFC] and is buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery. [Ref] She was a midwife and nurse. [CFFC] He married second the widow Keziah Price Lister. [CFFC] Keziah Blackhurst was born in 1813 in Farmington, Maine. [CFFC]
    

    Calvin attented to the local schools. [CFFC] He moved to Urbana, Ohio, where he taught school and was admitted to the bar. [CFFC]
    Calvin came to Indianapolis in 1821. [Ref][CFFC] He was the first lawyer there. [CFFC] He served in the Indiata senate 1826 - 1833. [CFFC] In the 1840s he became a banker. [CFFC] He lieved on a 2699-acre farm called "Wood Lawn". "He was active and influential in the development of the state. Fletcher opposed slavery and promoted organisation of the U.S. colored troops in Indiana in Civil War. He firmly established the Fletcher name in Indianapolis history; some of his children continued the legacy. His extensive diaries and letters remain essential source for study of early Indiana." [Ref]
    In 1850 Calvin was said to be 53 and born in Vermont. Sarah was said to be 48 and born in Kentucky. They were living in Indianapolis and Calvin was a bank officer with real estate worth $40,000. [C1850] In 1860 Calvin was said to be 62 and born in Vermont. He was living in Centre North part, Marion, Indiana and he was a banker with real estate worth $50,000 and a personal estate of $3,000. [C1860]
    Calvin was a "pioneer, lawyer, land speculator, banker, politician and father of 11 children. [CFFC] He established the first state bank of Indiana and served on its board of directors. [Ref]

    Click here to read the Wikipedia article about him.

    1. James Cooley Fletcher was born in 1823. [CFFC] He died in 1901. [CFFC] He married first Henrietta Malan. [CFFC] They later divorced and he married second Frederica Jane Smith. [CFFC] After her death he married third Elizabeth (Morton) Currier. [CFFC]
       James was a writer, clergyman and diplomat. [CFFC] Click here to read the Wikipedia article about him.
    2. Elijah T. Fletcher was born in 1824. [CFFC] He married the widow Catherine T. Carnahan. [CFFC]
    3. Calvin Fletcher was born in 1826. [CFFC] He died in 1903. [CFFC] He married Emily Beeler. [CFFC]
       Calvin was educated at Brown. [CFFC] Calvin and Emily bought 4000 acres in California in 1872 but later decided that they preferred to be in Europe. [CFFC] Living beyond their means led to insolvency in the late 1890s. [CFFC]
    4. Miles T. Fletcher was born in 1828. [CFFC] He died in 1862 when he stuck his head out the window of a train and was hit by another train. [CFFC]
       Miles was educated at Brown where he "did not excell" and was warned by the president for "his raucous behavior". [CFFC] He was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1860. [CFFC]
    5. Stoughton Alphonso Fletcher was born in 1831. [CFFC] He died in 1895. [CFFC] He married Ruth Elizabeth Barrows in 1856. [CFFC] She was born in 1833 in Augusta, Maine. [CFFC] She died in 1889. [CFFC]
       Stoughton was a businessman, banker and philanthropist. [CFFC]
    6. Marie Antoinette Fletcher was born in 1833. [CFFC] She died in childbirth in 1860. [CFFC] She married Cyrus Hines on 15 Nov 1855. [CFFC] Cyrus was born in 1830. [CFFC] He died in 1901 in New York City. [CFFC]
       Marie attended the Hall School in Guilford Connecticut. [CFFC] Cyrus studied at Brown. [CFFC] He was a lawyer and a judge in the Marion county Civil Court. [CFFC] He was a colonel in the 57th Indiana Regiment in the Civil War. [CFFC]
    7. Ingram Fletcher was born in 1835. [CFFC] He died in 1903. [CFFC] He married Gertrude Newman. [CFFC]
       Ingram tended the family farm. [CFFC]
    8. Dr. William Baldwin Fletcher was born in 1837. [CFFC] The overwieght Billy Fletcher died of a heart attack on 25 Apr 1907 in Orlando. [CFFC] He married Agnes O'Brien of West Bloomfield, New Jersey. [CFFC]
       Billy earned an MD. [CFFC] He served as a spy in the Civil War, was captured and interred at Libby Prison in Richmond. [CFFC] He was Superintendant of the Indiana Central Hospital for the Insane. [CFFC]
    9. Stephen Keyes Fletcher was born on 30 May 1840. [CFFC] He died on 6 Jul 1897. [CFFC] He married first Mary Catherine Malott. [CFFC] He married second Laura Maxwell. [CFFC]
       Stephen was a first lieutenant in the Indiana infantry in the Civil War. [CFFC] He was a businessman in Indianapolis. [CFFC] He established the Flower Mission in Indianapolis. [CFFC]
    10. Lucy Fletcher was born in 1842. [CFFC] She died in 1918. [CFFC] She married Cyrus Hines, the widower of her sister Maria. [CFFC]
    11. Albert E. Fletcher attended Abbot's Academy in Maine and Phillip's Academy in Massachusetts but returned to Indianapolis. [CFFC]
        His father "lectured him for his wild and undisciplined lifestyle". [CFFC] He became a wealthy art collector. [CFFC]
12. Miles Johnson Fletcher was born on 11 Nov 1799 in Ludlow. [SARA, number 95642][VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk] He died on 24 Jan 1870 in Marlboro, Ulster, New York. [SARA, number 95642][USCM, of heart disease in 1870, census location Brooklyn, New York] He married the widow Eliza (Boomer) DuBois in Apr 1822. [SARA, number 95642] She was born on 15 Nov 1797 in Marlboro. [SARA, number 95642] She died on 26 Jul 1872 in Marlboro. [SARA, number 95642]
    Miles was a merchant. [USCM] In 1850 Miles was said to be 49 and born in Vermont. Eliza was said to be 51 and born in New York. They were living in Marlboro and Miles with a merchant with real estate worth $4,000. [C1850]
13. Dexter Fletcher was born about 1801. He died on 25 Oct 1803 [Ref], age two, in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk] He is buried in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Ludlow. [Ref] Click here to see a photo of his gravestone.
14. Lovisa Fletcher was born on 12 Apr 1804 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk]
15. Dexter Fletcher was born on 25 Oct 1805 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk]
16. Stoughton Alphonso Fletcher was born on 22 Aug 1808 in Ludlow. [VVR, photocopy of a copy of a certificate signed by the town clerk] He died on 17 Mar 1882. [SARA, number 76188] He is buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery. Click here to see a photo of his gravestone.
    Stoughton married first Nancy Marie Kipp on 25 Aug 1857. [SARA, number 76188] She was born on 5 Jul 1817 [SARA, number 76188] in Rome, Oneida, New York. [Ref] She died on 28 Nov 1841 and is buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery. [Ref] He married second Julia T. Bullard. [Ref] She was born on 23 Jan 1820 in Franklin, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Ref] She died on 29 Mar 1856 and is buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery. [Ref] He married third the widow Julie Johnson in 1859. [CFFC] Julie married first Rev. Samuel Lee Johnson. [CFFC]
    In 1850 Stoughton was said to be 42 and born in Vermont. Julia was said to be 33 and born in Massachusetts. They were living in Center, Marion, Indianapolis and Stoughton was a banker with real estate worth $2,000. [C1850] In 1860 Stoughton was said to be 50 and born in Vermont and Julia was said to be 42 and born in Massachusetts. They were living in Ward 1 in Indianapolish and Stoughton was a banker with real estate worth $200,000 and a personal estate of $175,000. [C1860] In 1870 Stoughton was said to be 63 and born in Vermont and Julia was said to be 52 and born in Massachusetts. They were living in Ward 9 in Indianapolis and Stoughton was a banker with real estate worth $700,000 and a personal estate of $350,000. [C1870] In 1880 S.A. was said to be 72 and born in Vermont. Julia was said to be 62 and born in Massachusetts. They were living in Cavendish, Windsor, Vermont and S.A. was a farmer. [C1880]
    Stoughton established S. A. Fletcher and Co., a small private bank in 1839.
    Click here, here and here to read stories about the misfortunes of Stoughton's flamboyant heirs and the loss of the family fortune.
    
    1. Stoughton J. Fletcher [Ref]
       Stoughton built his father's bank into a national bank in 1900.
       1. Stoughton A. Fletcher died in 1957. [Ref] He married May Henly. [Ref] May was afflicted with stomach problems and "nervous trouble" and she commited suicide by drinking Prussian acid. [Ref] Upon discovering her body, her mother drank the rest of the poison and died as well. [Ref]
          Under the management of Stoughton, by 1910 the Fletcher American National Bank had gone through a merger and was the largest bank in Indiana. [Ref] In 1916 he built Laurel Hall, named for his mother, for $2.1 million on 1500 acres of farmland and woods. [Ref] After reversals during World War I, he gave up controlling interest in the bank in 1921. [Ref] In 1923 Stoughton resigned as president of the bank and relinqueshed all ties. [Ref] He declared bankruptcy in 1923. [Ref]
          1. Louisa Fletcher was born about 1903. She may have committed suicide [Ref] although she was reported as dying of meningitis on 18 Jul 1927, age 24, in Los Angles. [Ref]
             At age 17 Louisa cut off her hair, donned a pair of overalls and ran away from her parents' summer home in East Gloucester, Massachusetts. [Ref] She was discovered two days later, dressed as a boy and working as a farm hand. [Ref] In 1925 she declared her engagement to Count Ernst Gottfried von Schmettow of Prussia, but upon her arrival in Berlin, she was rebuffed by the count's father and returned home to New York. [Ref]
             
          2. Stoughton "Bruz" Fletcher was born in 1906. [Ref] He committed suicide in 1941 [Ref], asphixiating himself in his garage. [Ref]
             Stoughton was an author and a singer in a nightclub. [Ref] He was a staple on the "Pansy Craze" scene. [Ref] Click here for a video of him signing. Tyler Alpern wrote a book about him, published in 1910, titled Bruz Fletcher: Camped, Tramped & a Riotous Vamp.
       2. Julia Fletcher committed suicide in 1910. [Ref] She married John Alfred Barnard. [HGK]
          Julia's familly and John were involved in an acrimonious custody dispute over Julia's daughters, each of whom was heiress to $250,000. [HGK]
          1. Hilda Barnard was born about 1902. [HGK]
          2. Julia Barrnard was born about 1904. [HGK]
          3. Agnes Barnard was born about 1905. [HGK]
       3. Hilda Fletcher [Ref][HGK]
       4. Louisa Laurel Fletcher married the playwright Booth Tarkington [Ref] in 1902. [Ref] They divorced in 1911. [Ref] He was born on 29 Jul 1869 in Indianapolis. [Ref] He died on 19 May 1946 in Indianapolis. [Ref] He married second Susannah Keifer Robinson in 1912. [Ref]
          Louisa graduated from Smith College in 1900. [Ref] She was a poet. [Ref] Click here to read the Wikipedia article about Booth. Click here to see a portrait of Louisa. Photo on the right.
          
          1. Laurel Tarkington was born in 1906. [Ref] She died in 1923. [Ref]
    2. Gov. Allen M. Fletcher was born on 25 Sep 1853 in Indianapolis. [CFFC, only the year] He died on 11 May 1922 [CFFC] of a cerebral hemorrhage at Rutland's Berwick hotel. He married Mary Elizabeth Bence of Indianapolis in 1876. [CFFC] She was born on 18 Jul 1857. She died on 9 May 1942.
       
       

       Allen was educated at the Abbott School in Farmington, New York. [CFFC] He was widely travelled but settled in Proctorsville, Windsor, Vermont. [CFFC] He was the Governor of Vermont 1912 - 1915. [CFFC] He was a member of the New York Stock exchange. [CFFC] He owned his grandfather Jesse Fletcher's property. [CFFC]

        

       Click here to read his Wikipedia article.

       His home is now the Castle Inn and restaurant

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