John Wesley Fletcher was born 24 June 1848 in East New Market, the son of John H. Fletcher and Sarah Andrews. On 17 February 1869, John W. Fletcher married Susan Higgins. She was born around 1856, the daughter of Judge James Higgins and Isabella Walter.
John W. Fletcher and Susan Higgins Fletcher had two children:
Democrat & News - 8 June 1872 - Collectors appointed:
District #2 - John W. Fletcher
1876 Tax Record
John W. Fletcher
Part East New Market 80 acres - $960
buildings & improvements $75
Notes of hand $75
1 stallion Frank Pierce - $300, 3 horses $225, 2 mules $200, 1 colt $30
2 oxen $40, 5 cows $90, 7 cattle $60, 50 sheep $125, 15 hogs $50,
6 hives Bees $6, poultry $10, 1 carriage $75, 1 Dearborn $50, 2 carts
$40,
1 reaper $25, Lot F implements $25, 3 beds $60, Lot H Furniture $40, 1
silver watch $10
Total $2571
Cambridge Chronicle - 25 January 1882 - Died -
In East New Market, at the residence of J.W. Fletcher, Esq., Miss Sallie
D. Hull, in the 82nd year of her age.
1896 Tax Record
John W. Fletcher
House Farm situated near East New Market known as "Carthagenia"
containing 210 acres.
120 acres $2400
90 acres wood & cut down land $450
Buildings and improvements $1000
Farm called part of East New Market containing 80 acres
70 acres $1050
10 acres branch $50
Buildings and improvements $500
Susan Higgins Fletcher died on 10 July 1898 in Cambridge. On 26 November 1902, John W. Fletcher remarried to Willie A. Hopkins in Cambridge.
Portrait and Biographical Record of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland:
Chapman Publishing Co., 1898.
John W. Fletcher, Dorchester County, born 21 June 1848 on a farm near East New Market. He is the only child by the third marriage of his father. John H. Fletcher. His father had three sons by his first marriage: William M resides near Cambridge; the other two are deceased. By his father’s second marriage, he had two children: Jeremiah B. and Mrs. Mary J. Williamson, both residing in Caroline County. The Fletcher family is of English origin. The great-grandfather of John W. Fletcher was John Fletcher of Delaware. The grandfather John was a farmer while the father was John H. Fletcher. The family are members of the Methodist Church. The mother of John W. Fletcher is the former Sarah Andrews, daughter of Medford Andrews who owned land at Hurlock.
John W. Fletcher attended public schools and East New Market Academy. On 1 January 1886, he left the farm to reside in Cambridge as the Register of Wills. In February 1869, he married Miss Susan Higgins, daughter of Judge James Higgins, once Chief Justice of the Orphan’s Court of Dorchester County. Their children, Frederick H. Fletcher, age 26, is a lawyer in Cambridge; and Laura Fletcher, who is the wife of Thomas W. Simmons, attorney in Cambridge, and have three children: Harriett Ruth, Lawrence, and Mary. From 1871 to 1872, John W. Fletcher was a tax-collector for the 2nd and 12th districts. He was appointed to close the books of J.B. Nesbitt, collector. John W. Fletcher was elected Sheriff, then Register of Wills, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. (p. 803 - #660).