Obituaries
MRS. CALVIN FLETCHER DIES
Indianapolis Star dated 28 Nov 1910:
Cared for Wounded in Civil War and Was Active in Charitable Work
Mrs. Emily Beeler Fletcher, widow of the late Calvin Fletcher, after a long and painful illness, passed away at her home in this city Sunday afternoon, Nov 27, at 12:30 o'clock. Mrs. Fletcher was the grandaughter of George Mathews, who was the first settler on White Lick Creek, in Morgan County, in 1820, he having bought a tract of land on which the village of Centerton now stands. She was the daughter of Joseph and Hannah Mathews Beeler and was born Nov. 20, 1828, eight miles southwest of Indianapolis. In her girlhood she attended St. Paul's Academy, which was situated on the present site of Christ Church. One of her teachers was Mrs. Johnson, who afterward became the wife of Sloughton Fletcher Sr.. She was married to Calvin Fletcher Jr. Sept. 18, 1849. Mrs. Fletcher was intensely patriotic joining in the extensive work of the sanitary commision and taking an active part in all work for relief of the soldiers of the Civil War. She was one of the few women whom Governor Morton asked to go to the front to care for the sick and wounded who were not able to be brought north. She worked in the Nashville and Murfreesboro hospitals several weeks under many disadvantages. She was one of the founders of the Home for Aged and Friendless Women and a devoted worker in the old Benevolent Society. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher made their home for a number of years in Spencer, Ind. Mrs. Fletcher traveled extensively both in the country and Europe, having spent the winter 1874-75 in Egypt and the Holy Land. She is survived by four children - - Horace H. and Dr. Calvin L. Fletcher, Mrs. Theodore A. Wagner and Miss Emily Fletcher, all of this city, and a sister, Mrs. Harriet B. Hall.
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