This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JhB.2ACE/255.1 Message Board Post: Name: John Morgan Fletcher Sr. Surname: Fletcher Given Name: John Morgan NSFX: Sr. Sex: M Birth: 18 Oct 1840 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Death: 1916 in Atlanta, Cass Co., Texas _UID: EB26BBFB67852548BF4088995825D7B3477D Note: FLETCHER FIRST PUBLISHER OF JOURNAL IN 1879 was the heading of the Citizens Journal, Atlanta, Texas, March 19, 1879. At the time John Morgan Fletcher, Sr. met with those 19 other leading Cass County citizens to form a democratic newspaper, he was treasurer of Cass County having been elected to the office in 1878. As a child Fletcher's mother, Margaret J. (Jane) Lee- cousin of Robert E. Lee-told him stories about her cousin. Later he gave this as a reason for being among the first to enlist in the Confederate Army. He was wounded at the battle of Murfreesborough, Tennessee. After the Civil War, Fletcher's father, Richard Morgan Fletcher, Sr., began to give parcels of farm land to his sons as they married. Instead of land, Fletcher was giventhe equivalent in money for an education. He attended college at Landonia, Texas, where Col. Featherstone, a scholarly man, was president. After a four year course he returned to Cass County and began teaching school. He was a professor at the old Woodlawn Academy in Cusseta and was teaching in Daingerfield when he and Miss Sarah Jane Leftwich of the town were married in 1873. Fletcher was elected county treasurer in 1878 and served in that office four years which probably explains why the Journal was published in Linden from 1879 until Fletcher was defeated for the nomination by Marvin Ball. Source: "Citizens Journal, Atlanta, Texas, March 19, 1879-Page 1" Article by Yvonne Vestal Change Date: 12 Dec 2000 at 16:10:33 Father: Richard Morgan Fletcher b: 28 Mar 1814 in Madison, Morgan Co., Georgia Mother: Margaret (Jane) J. Lee b: 1822 in Georgia Marriage 1 Sarah Jane Leftwich b: 28 Aug 1857 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Married: 1873 Children William "Willie" Fletcher b: 1874 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Margaret "Maggie" Fletcher b: 1878 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Daisy Eloise Fletcher b: 20 Jun 1880 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Junier Fletcher b: 1883 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Lucille Fletcher b: 1885 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Leonia E. Fletcher b: 22 Feb 1890 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia John Morgan Fletcher Jr. b: May 1892 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Charles Culberson Fletcher b: 8 Jun 1895 in LaGrange, Troup Co.,