The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
C. T.FLETCHER DEAD.
w ell-Known Lancas-
ter Man a Victim
of Pneumonia.
PROMINENT IN The TOWN.
He Was a Descendant of
Good Old New Eng
land Stock.
PROMINENT IN THE TOWN.

Clinton, Oct. 21.-Charles T. Fletcher,
a well-known landscape gardener and
an ex-member of the legislature, died
at his home in Lancaster at 2 o'clock
this afternoon, after an illness of two
weeks with pneumonia, which was fol-
lowed by heart failure.
| Mr. Fletcher was born in Lancaster,
March %, 1926 A son of Joshua and
Nabby (Warren) Fletcher, he belonged
to a family who have been identified
with Lancaster since 1712. In that year
John Fletcher, his great grand
father, who afterwards became an ex-
tensive land owner and farmer. came
to Lancaster from Chelmsford. Mass.
Timothy Fletcher, the grandfather,
who was born in Lancaster, learned the
trade of a shoemaker, and followed 1t
in connection with farming in different
localities. His last days were spent
upon farm in his native town. Dur
ing the revolutionary war, he made
shoes for the patriots. 1t is related
that on one occasion he led team load
of footwear from Grafton to Washing
toms army at Valley Forge
H., spent the greater part of his life
in Lancaster, where he worked at shoe
making until his death, which occurred
when he was 81 years old.
Nabby, his wife, who was a daughter
of Moses Warren of WATERFOWL, died
at the age Of 65 OF her six children,
the survivors are Eleanor L. and Mrs
Andrew j. Brown, who live in Milford,
Mass Julia, who married Thomas j.
Carney, and resides in Galesburg, Ill.
MIR. Fletcher acquired his education
in an academy of his native town. AZ
terward he learned the shoe makers
trade, and followed it for some time.
He was also employed for some time
in the construction of the New York
and Lake Erie Railroad Upon his re-
turn to Lancaster i'll 1856 he took the
position of lands ape gardener with
Nathanie! Thayer He has since re-
tanned his connection with the family,
serving both the grandfather and the
father of the present generation, and
has graded and decorated the grounds
of each new residence, built by the
descendants Of his original employer.
At the time of his death he had charge
OF theoldfamily homestead. Mr. Fletcher
contracted the first of his two mar
riages in 1856, with Mrs. Cornelia Jack
man, daughter 81 L. d. Maynard, who
died at the age of As years.
His second marriage united him with
Isabella Frances Maynard, his first
wife's sister, who died in 1894. He
leaves one adopted daughter, Mrs.
Gertrude M. Fay wife of William H.
Fay, prominent lawyer of this town.
Various important town offices have
been filled by him, including those of
assessor and auditor He was mem
Der of the library board of trustees in
1879. and he ably represented this dis
trict in the Legislature in 1891. Polt-
ically, he acted with the republicans.
He erected his present resid nee in 1869
upon land purchased by his father.
SOCIALISTS ADDRESS.
Joseph F. Maloney spoke to members
of the socialist labor party in Music
hail this evening. An audience of
gratifying size, as socialist audiences
go in Clinton, was present, although
most of the socialists here are opposed
to the De Leon wing of the party with
which Maloney is affiliated.
Maloney proved an interesting
speaker. He reviewed the reasons why
socialists believe the workers should
own the machinery of production and
expressed his belief that q cooperative
commonwealth is coming in strides.
FIVE DRUNK CASES.
Judge c. c. stone had five DRINKS to
deal with in district court this morn
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