William Winfield “Willie” Fletcher (1868-1886)

FLETCHER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/23/2025 at 22:39:01

From Jewell Record November 10, 1886 (page 3)

DIED--At Jewell, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1886, at the age of 18 years, 1 month and 10 days, of typhoid fever, William Winfield Fletcher.

Death! Ah, it is sad at best, but when it touches with its scepter and takes for its victim a bright and promising young life, just budding into manhood, it is doubly sad. W. W. Fletcher was a young man of exemplary habits, a boy with a promising future, one whom to know was to know as a true and lasting friend, one whose friends were legion. And we to not hesitate to say that no young man has ever come among us who would be more sadly missed. True, it is, he was not making this his home at the time of his sickness, but was taken sick at Alton where he was working in the capacity of night operator, a stranger among strangers, and started for the home of his parents at Scranton, arriving at this place the disease had taken such a hold on him that friends prevailed on him to stop over until in better condition for travel, he consented to do so, but grew no better and in 1 short week this young life had gone out, and the soul taken its flight to "that bourne from whence no traveler ever returned." All was done that loving hands, kind hearts and skilled physicians could do, but seemed only to ease the pain until death claimed him for its own. The remains were taken to Scranton last night for interment.