Frances “Fannie” Locke (Dane) Fletcher     1835 - 1914

 

Born: abt 1835 in Lockeport, Nova Scotia.

Died: January 27, 1914

 

Spouse:  Capt. Richard Harding Fletcher  m. October 24, 1856, Hebron, Nova Scotia. 

Children:         George M. Fletcher,  b. 7/24/1856  (See below)

                        Sarah Rebecca (Fletcher) Blesar, b. 7/27/1859 (See below)

                        Atilla or Atpre (Fletcher) Jacquot, b. abt. 1862

                        Ernest Fletcher, b abt. 1864 (See below)

 

Father’s name:  Thomas Dane                                            Birth place:  Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Mother’s name:  Elizabeth Frances (Locke) Dane           Birth place:  Lockeport, Nova Scotia

Siblings:         Atilla Dane

                        James Locke Dane

Leona Suberville (Dane) Briggs

Mary Maud Dane

Peter Eugene Dane

Frederick Tompkins Dane

                        Ina (Dane) Hawthorne 

Zerviah (Dane) Benoit

Oscar Thomas Dane           

 

Husband Capt. Richard Fletcher was born in 1834 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, son of George S. Fletcher, and died on February 6, 1886 in Watertown, South Dakota.  As a member of the crew, Richard sailed with the Schooner Brilliant to Australia.  (For more information, see Fetcher Genealogy page.)  He returned to Nova Scotia, and then as Captain Fletcher he was the Master of the Brig Victor, which father-in-law Thomas Dane had interests, when in October of 1859 it was driven ashore as it left Androssan, Scotland and became a total wreck.

 

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Fannie, with her first 2 children, emigrated with her parents Thomas and Elizabeth Frances Dane and their children in April of 1860.  It is unclear where husband Richard was at this time.  The entire family is in Appleton for the 1880 Census, but it appears that they split up shortly after that; after son George M’s death.    Fannie and son Ernest stay in Appleton; Richard and daughter Sarah go to South Dakota.  I’m not certain of Atilla’s whereabouts.

 

Son George M. Fletcher is buried beside his Grandmother In-Law, Elizabeth Frances (Locke) Dane, in Appleton, Wisconsin’s Riverside Cemetery, Block D, Lot 83.  He was born July 24, 1856 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  (Note: the Burial Record has a typo, Nova Scotia is abbreviated as NY rather than NS, making it appear that George may be from New York.)  He died in Appleton, Wisconsin on October 13, 1880.  He has a confusing entry in the 1880 Census saying that he was counted, but missing.  The photo below shows the Dane lot in Riverside Cemetery and George’s marker is the flat stone in the foreground.  Unfortunately it has eroded and nothing can be read on it.

 

 

 

Daughter Sarah Rebecca Fletcher was born in Nova Scotia and was a baby when the family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin.  She married Nicholas James Blesar on July 27, 1882, probably in South Dakota.  She passed away in Milbank, South Dakota on September 18, 1935. 

 

Son Ernest Fletcher is noted in the 1880 census with the occupation of Telephone Operator.  There was only one telephone exchange in town, Uncle Louis’!  (Click on this link to learn more about Wisconsin’s first telephone and telephone exchange.)  Ernest was most likely born in Appleton, Wisconsin and apparently did marry and have two children.

 

George S. Fletcher, Capt Richard Harding Fletcher’s father, emigrated from Nova Scotia with his wife, 4 daughters and 3 sons.  They departed on December 13, 1852 on the Packet Schooner Brilliant for Australia.  From Yarmouth Reminiscences, Lawson, 1902.  (For more information, see Fetcher Genealogy page.)

 

 

For an interesting side story, please see my information about George S. Fletcher’s brother, Richard “Ozzie” Osbourne Fletcher.

 

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