St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-05-10
Col. Il. G. Fletcher.

The funeral of Col. Truman c..
Fletcher whose death was briefly an
nounCed in last weeks CALIFORNIAN
was held from the residence on Main
street last Friday afternoon at $50.
The officiating clergymen were the
Rev. G. w. G. Hill and the Rev. A. P.
Grint. Dean d. Patterson had charge
of the arrangements. The house
was filed with friends and neigh
bors and there was, a very rich dis
play of flowers about the casket.
The honorary bearers were:
Alexander Dunnett, F. G. Bundy, J..
C. Clark, DR.. G. A Cramton, F. H.
Brooks and c. H. Stevens. The
body bearers were H. H. Carr, w.
Grant Brown, John F. Puffer, E. E.
Gage, Clarence A. Forrest and G. c..
Locke.
Among those present from out of
town were, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A.
Murray of Burlington, Mrs. Eugene
Velie of Ottawa, Ralph Fletcher and
! James s. Mitchell of Sherbrooke,
George N. Roberts and r. S. Towers
of Shelburne.
As a mark Of respect and in ac-
| knowledgmen OF the valuable SER
| vice Mr.. Fletcher had given in FL
| years work as director of the pub
]
houses in the village were hung at
half mast last Wednesday, the day
of his death. Col. Fletcher was one
of the wealthiest and most inhu-
entail residents of the village but an
unostentatiOuS man who had a
CHEEKY greeting and a courteous word
| for all acquaintance without dis
elimination regarding their standing
in wealth, Although he retired
from active business rs years ago he
was a large owner of real estate and
identified with SO many of the large
business interests of the village that
he was busy and always much in
terested in any proposed village &C
| tivities. He also owned a fine estate
| in Shelburne which. was Inherited
| from his father.
Truman G. Fletcher was born in
Underhill Oct. rs, 1845, the son of
| Col. Frederick and Beulah (Chitten-
DEM Fletcher and was educated in
Williston and st. Lawrence acade-
mics and then entered the mercan-
! tile business in St. Johnshury III
which he was very successful and
retired from active business in 1856.
| Since that time he had devoted him
self to his investments and public
duties. He was director in the
Passumpsic Savings bank and had
! been officially connected with the
Merchants National which was
| founded by his father.
Col. Fletcher was a life long re-
publican and in his younger years
was an active political worker Be-
sides serving as village trustee he
represented St. Johnsbury in the
| legislature of, 1886, was aide-de-
camp on the staff of Gov. John w.
Stewart, delegate to the national re-
publican convention in 1884 and
presidential elector in 1900 He
also served four years as a railroad
commissioner in Vermont from 1886
until 1890.
Col Fletcher was member of
several fraternal organizations, of st.
Andrews Episcopal church, and mil
itary societies. He was member
of Passumpsic Lodge, r. & A. NJ;
Haswell CHAPTER, R. A. M; Pa1es-
tine Commandery, X. t.; Mt Sinai
Temple of the Mystic Shrine; Apollo
Lodge, X. p; of the Sons of the
Am erican Revolution and the Society
of Colonial Wars He was also a
trustee of the St. Johnsbury Gene
terry Association having been re-
elected to that position the evening
before his death.
He was twice married, first to
Katherine Knapp Brown, who died in
1890 and in 1901 to Belle r. Small,
who with two sons, Carl c., of
SWanton and Philip A., OF this place,
are the only survivors.