John C. Fletcher

Birth Date

c1827

Death Date

1863-11-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Adair County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Adair County, Kentucky, native. Father of Sally M. Fletcher. Married to Elizabeth E. Janes Fletcher in Adair County, Kentucky, on June 26, 1856. Father of Mary A. Fletcher, Nancy Fletcher, and John Lawson Fletcher. Farmer in Adair County in 1850. Farmer in Adair County in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a first sergeant from December 30, 1861 to November 14, 1863. Killed in action at the Battle of Huff's Ferry, Roane County, Tennessee, on November 14, 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 15B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 170.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, Film 000830576.
Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 – ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, Application 21857.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 862.

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