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Joseph Cooley Fletcher
1869 - 1959 (90 years)
Generation: 1
1. Joseph Cooley Fletcher was born in 1869 in Bristol, Ontario County, New York; died on 7 Jun 1959 in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Bristol, Ontario County, New York. Notes:
HOLCOMB, June 8 - J. Cooley Fletcher, 89, a resident of Holcomb for many years, died yesterday (June 7.1959) in Thompson Memorial Hospital, Canandaigua, after a long illness. A tenth-generation descendant of John Alden, he was born in Bristol, the son of Jerome and Lovice Fisher Fletcher. He was employed as a carpenter and machinist for the W.N. Clark Canning Co. until his retirement in 1940. In recent years he had made his home with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James C. Blodgett in East Lake Road, Canandaigua. Other survivors are nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Wheeler Funeral Home in East Bloomfield Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday conducted by the Rev. Duane Smith, pastor of the Congregational Church of East Bloomfield. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Bristol, at the convenience of the family.
(Democrat And Chronicle, Rochester, NY, Tuesday, June 9, 1959)