The Fletcher family (William D. and Mary C.) settled at Beloit.

The evidence

• “William D. and Mary C. (Collins) Fletcher, who settled at Beloit in 1850. They afterwards moved to Avon township, where the father was engaged in farming the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1888.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 456 / book p. 944

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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