FLETCHER, JOB, Sen., was born Nov. 11, 1793, in Rockbridge county, Va. His father died when he was an infant, and his mother moved with her elder son John, in the autumn of 1808, to Logan county, Ky., and the next spring to that part of Christian which was afterwards Todd county. Job remained in the family of his brother John, attending school and teaching. He served as a soldier six months in the war of 1812, and as such assisted in burying the dead after the battle of Tippecanoe, although he was not in the battle. Mary Kerchner was born May 25, 1789, in Augusta county, Va., and was taken by her parents to Todd county, Ky. Job Fletcher and Mary Kerchner were there married, Dec. 22, 1818. They had one child born in Kentucky, and moved to what became Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 11, 1819, in what is now Ball township, where they had six children. Of their children--

PERMELIA A., born Aug. 5, 1819, in Christian county, Ky., was married in 1844 to Eddin Lewis. See his name. He died, and she was married, Feb. 4, 1856, to Larkin Lewis. See his name.

JAMES H., born Jan. 22, 1821, in Sangamon county, died in his twentieth year.

JOHN, born April 11, 1822, in Sangamon county, went to Arkansas in 1853. He was married in 1854 to Mary Fletcher. He resided in Arkansas until after the battle of Prairie Grove, when they started for Illinois. Mrs. Fletcher died on the way, Dec. 27, 1862, leaving one child. Mr. Fletcher served his country in the 1st Ill. Cav., part of the time in the south and the remainder on the frontier against the Indians. He died in Bates county, Mo., April 10, 1874.

ELIZABETH, born Feb. 23, 1824, in Sangamon county, married Albert Stacy, a native of Montgomery county, Ill. They had three living children, MARY L., PERMELIA V. and ALBERT E. Mr. Stacy died March 22, 1863, and his widow and three children resided on the farm settled by her father in 1819 until 1875, when she sold out and moved to the vicinity of Chanute, Neosho county, Kan.

JONAS L., born Sept. 1, 1826, in Sangamon county, was married April 22, 1851, to Amanda M. Short, of same county. They had three living children, EMILY J., JAMES J. and EDWARD. Mr. F. and family moved to Kansas Sept. 1, 1859, and settled on Big creek while the land still belonged to the Osage Indians. Their title was not extinguished until 1867. Jonas L. Fletcher was appointed county clerk at the organization of Neosho county, Nov. 4, 1864, served one and a half years, and was then elected for two years. Was admitted to the bar in 1867. In 1868 was elected probate judge of Neosho county for two years, and was re-elected in 1870 for two years. Judge Fletcher and family reside at Chanute, Neosho county, Kan.

ELIJAH I., born Dec. 4, 1827, in Sangamon county, died Sept. 5, 1846, in same county.

MARY died in her seventh year.

Mrs. Mary Fletcher died July 14, 1850, and Job Fletcher died Sept. 4, 1872, both within half a mile of where they settled in 1819, in Ball township, near Sugar creek Cumberland Presbyterian church. On the very night of his arrival in the settlement, Mr. Fletcher was called to write the will of George Cox, who came the year before with the Drennan and Dodds families. That was the first will from what is now Sangamon county ever put on record, and was registered at Edwardsville.

Mr. F. had to buy corn for bread and to feed his stock until he could raise a crop. The nearest point at which he found any for sale was three miles south of Edwardsville. Mr. Fletcher bought of Major Iles the first window glass ever sold in Springfield, and the first ever put in a window in Sangamon county. He also believed that he taught the first school in the county, in a log cabin built for that purpose, in 1820 or '21, south of Sugar creek. A Sunday school was organized near where he lived in 1825, by Rev. J. M. Peck, and Mr. F. taught in that school also. It was near where the Sugar creek Cumberland Presbyterian church now stands. William Drennan, Sen., was the first superintendent, and continued for about twenty years, as it became the Sunday school connected with that church. His grandson, John L. Drennan, is now the superintendent. Job Fletcher and John Taylor were appointed justices of the peace. The first in what is now Sangamon county. As such, Mr. Fletcher organized the first election precinct in the county. That was in 1819 or '20, when it was part of Madison county. The titles of the Indians to the lands were all extinguished before Mr. F. came into the county; but two and a half years of the time allowed them to hunt was unexpired, and the country was full of them. They, however, were all friendly. Mr. F. was present April 10, 1821, when the Commissioners, William Drennan, Sen., Zachariah Peter and Rivers Cormack, located the county seat. He saw the stake driven, marked Z and D, declared to be the county seat, and named Springfield. Job Fletcher was one of the representatives from Sangamon county at one session of the legislature in Vandalia. He was one of the Senators for the county at the session of 1836 and '7, which legislated for the removal of the State capital to Springfield, and was consequently one of the "Long Nine." He served one term in the Senate after the removal to Springfield.