Bedford County , Pennsylvania
Photos of People & Places
 
The John & Mary Means / Fletcher Family
Surnames: Amick, Barkman, Beltz, Bowman, Hess, Fletcher, Hartley, Means, Mills,
O'Neal, Shearer, Smith, Snyder, Sparks, Weimer
 
John Fletcher, born 1774, in Frederick Co., Maryland, was the third son of Jacob Fletzer / Fletcher
(1742/43 - 1831) and Maria Magdalena Hess (1745 - 1828). Jacob (and probably his wife Maria)
is buried in the Fletcher Cemetery in Monroe Twp.
In 1809, in Bedford County, John Fletcher married Mary Means, who was born in 1780,
and the oldest daughter of Daniel & Elizabeth Sparks / Means.
 
Over the next 16 years they were parents to the following children:
 
1. Baltzer Fletcher (1810 - 1887) m: Abt. 1838 buried Fletcher Cemetery.
+Sarah Mills (1818 - 1872) buried Fletcher Cemetery.

2. Mary Ann Fletcher (1812 - 1863) m: Mar 09, 1834, buried Fletcher Cemetery.
+Philip Snyder (1813 - 1891) buried Fletcher Cemetery.

3. Daniel Fletcher (1816 - 1885) m: Abt. 1850 buried Fletcher Cemetery.
+Susannah Barkman (1820 -1907) buried Fletcher Cemetery.

4. Jacob Fletcher (1818 - 1887) buried Fletcher Cemetery.
+Rachel O'Neal (1825 - 1863) m : Mar 11, 1845 buried Fletcher Cemetery.
+Susan O'Neal (1830 - 1904) m: Abt. 1864 buried Fletcher Cemetery.

5. Susanna Fletcher (1820 - 1907) buried Fletcher Cemetery.
+Jacob Conrad

6. Elizabeth Fletcher (1821 - 1874) m: Abt. 1846 buried Fletcher Cemetery.
+Benjamin Mills (1820 - 1862) buried Fletcher Cemetery.

7. Caroline Fletcher (1823 - 1906) m: Abt. 1850
+Frederick Mills (1827 - 1888) buried Zion Lutheran, Bed. Co., Pa.

8. Sarah Fletcher (Abt. 1825 - bef. 1867)
+? Wharton
 
David Fletcher (DayvidA@aol.com) has supplied a number of pictures of the descendants of the
John & Mary Means / Fletcher Family. Some photos are shown on the Philip Snyder page.
Other photos will be placed on this page, loosely arranged until perhaps enough additional information
and / or, pictures may be contributed to allow for separate pages for each sibling family.
Jacob Fletcher (1818 - 1887) married Rachel O'Neal (1825 - 1863) on March 11, 1845.
Rachel was a daughter of Solomon & Eve Beltz / O'Neal.
Jacob & Rachel were the parents of at least 8 children before Rachel died in 1863.
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1. George Washington Fletcher (1846 - 1918)
+Julia Miller (1850 - 1936) m: December 24, 1895

2. Silas Wright Fletcher (1848 - 1922) m: July 01, 1875
+Sarah Means (1851 - 1928)

3. Samuel Fletcher (1850 - 1860)

4. Lyman Cobb Fletcher (1852 - 1931)
+Alice Virginia Amick (1859 - 1888) m: March 23, 1881
+Sara Sallie Fletcher (Abt. 1863 - ? )

5. Simon Fletcher (1854 - Aft. 1860 )

6. James B. Fletcher (1856 - 1942)
+Catherine Means ? ( ? - ? )

7. Louisa Fletcher (1859 _- 1933 ) m: Abt. 1878
+Michael Means (1856 - 1933)

8. Paulina Fletcher (1861 - ? )
+George Wilson Weimer (1858 - 1945)
In about 1864, after Rachel's death, Jacob again married a daughter of Solomon & Eve O'Neal.
Susan O'Neal ( 1830 -1904) was Rachel's younger sister.
Susan & Jacob had at least 5 more children:
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1. Eugenia Fletcher (1864 - ?) m: December 17, 1891
+ George M. Hartley ( ? - ? )

2. Clymer Fletcher (1865 -1915)
+Bertha Bowman (1886 - 1943)

3. Helen Alice Fletcher (1867 - 1880)

4. Wilson W. Fletcher (1869 - 1932)
+Nelli Robert (? - ? ) m: November 29, 1904

5. Frances Fletcher (1871 - 1948)
+James Sipes ( ? - ? )
 
The following are pictures of some of Jacob & Rachel O'Neal / Fletcher's children:
 

 
(Photo courtesy David Fletcher)
Sara "Sallie" Fletcher & Lyman Cobb Fletcher.
 
Lyman is David Fletcher's great-grandad. David says that Lyman was referred to as "Uncle Tuck."
Sallie was a daughter of Alexander (1816 - 1885) & Elizabeth Smith / Fletcher.
 
 
 
(Photo courtesy David Fletcher)
Michael & Louisa Fletcher / Means
 
 
(Photo courtesy David Fletcher)
George W. & Pauline Fletcher / Weimer.
 
 
The following are pictures of some of Jacob & Susan O'Neal / Fletcher's children:
 

 
(Photo courtesy David Fletcher)
George M. & Eugenia Fletcher / Hartley
George & Eugenia were married December 17, 1891 at Chapman's Run.
 
 
 
(Photo courtesy David Fletcher)
Clymer & Bertha Bowman / Fletcher
(Further information on Clymer and Bertha / Fletcher)
 
 

 
(Photo courtesy David Fletcher)
Wilson Fletcher
 

 
(Photo courtesy David Fletcher)
Frances Fletcher / Sipes
(Jacob & Susan's youngest child.)
 
Several of the Jacob Fletcher siblings at a later date:
 
(Photo courtesy David Fletcher)
 
From left to right:
Louisa Fletcher / Means, James B. Fletcher, Pauline Fletcher / Weimer,
Lyman Cobb Fletcher, and Eugenia Fletcher / Hartley.
 
 
Another of John & Mary Means / Fletcher's children was daughter Caroline:
 
 
(Photo courtesy David Fletcher)
 
Caroline Fletcher / Mills wife of Frederick Mills (in the foreground)
Daniel Snyder - nephew (left) and a daughter Emma Mills / Shearer (right)
(Daniel married Katherine Boor and Emma became the wife of Walter Shearer)
 
If you have further information or pictures of John & Mary Means / Fletcher's descendants,
please consider adding them to this page. Contact me @
clabaugh@richnet.net
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