JOB FLETCHER was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, August 27, 1801, but was brought up in Todd county, Kentucky. His parents were John and Elizabeth (McElvain) Fletcher, natives also of Virginia, who moved to Kentucky in 1806, and to Illinois in 1830; their family consisted of three sons, four daughters and two grandchildren. They steeled in a house sixteen by eighteen, made of logs, and owned by Job Fletcher, his brother who came in 1819. He built an addition to the cabin, planted a crop, and lived there during the summer. During this season John and his brother, James, died. The mother lived with her son, Job, until her youngest daughter was married. She then went to Montgomery county, Illinois, and from there to Macoupin county, Illinois, where she died. Job, the subject of this notice, was married in Kentucky, to Frances Brown, November 24, 1825, who was born December 12, 1801, in Augusta county, Virginia, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Kashner) Brown. They emigrated to Macoupin county, Illinois. Their children are: Mary E., who married I. N. McElvain, and died in 1875; Margaret Frances, who died in her tenth year; John S., who died in 1854; William D., who died in his third year; Preston R., who in 1854 married Sarah Wright and now resides in Missouri; he had seven children, two of whom only are now living; Pauline K., who married Francis E. Dodds, son of Joseph Dodds, a well known old settler; Benjamin F., who enlisted in the late war, in the One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Company B, and served three years, eleven months of which time was passed in Andersonville prison. He married Mary E. Drennan, daughter of William Drennan, and they had four children, of whom one is deceased. Virginia A., who married Charles G. Brown, and of their five children two are living. Mr. Fletcher owns two hundred and eighty acres of land, including the home place, which he bought in 1833, besides giving his children nearly seven hundred acres, all of which he purchased since he came to this county. January 11, 1881, his wife died, and he now resides with his son, Benjamin F., who carries on a farm and makes grain and stock-raising a specialty. They have been members of the Presbyterian Church since 1843. Politically, he was an old Clay Whit, and then a Republican.