Covington County AlArchives Biographies.....Fletcher, Andrew J. 1829 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JUDGE ANDREW J. FLETCHER, planter of Beat No. 1, was born in Marshall
county, West Va., in 1829. He is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (French)
Fletcher, both of them natives of Marshall county, West Va. Mr. Fletcher in 1834
came to Alabama intending to remove his family to Covington county, but died in
1385, and lies buried in Beat No. 6. He was a well-to-do farmer, and served in
the war of 1812. His father was of English ancestry. Andrew J. Fletcher's mother
was a daughter of Isaac French who was a farmer of Giles county, Va., and died
there. She died in 1846. The subject of this sketch was the fifth of six
children, two of the brothers serving in the Virginia army during the late war.
In 1849 he came to Covington county, Ala., to look after his father's property,
and in 1853 married Martha, daughter of James and Eveline Ward, natives, of
Georgia, but who died in Covington county, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher haven
seven children, viz.: William; Mary E., wife of James A. Prestwood; James; John
E., of Geneva; Henry; Virginia; Annette. Mr. Flitcher has ever since coming to
Alabama lived in Covington county, and for thirty years on his present farm. He
owns 800 acres of land in different tracts and has 130 acres cleared. For about
three years he was a merchant at Andalusia, and for many years was in the saw
mill business. He now has a grist mill. He has been in public life for many
years. He was constable in 1853; justice of the peace in 1839; tax assessor and
collector in 1864; superintendent of education in 1868; tax collector in 1871;
county commissioner in 1871-72-73; and probate judge from 1874 to 1880. He has
since than been justice of the peace for some time. He is a member of farmers'
alliance, No. 960. He has been secretary and is now one of the executive
committee. He was before the war a whig, but since that party became extinct he
has been a democrat. During the civil war he was not subject to military duty,
having had asthma for the last forty years. His wife is a member of the
Missionary Baptist church, having joined that church in 1860. Mr. Fletcher is
one of the oldest settlers in the county, is the only one of his father's family
who came here, and he is well known and highly respected by all.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 749-750



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