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Thaddeus Norris Fletcher, son of Alexander and Louise McAllister Fletcher, was born at Waverly, near Warrenton, Va., and "fell on sleep" at his home, in Warrenton, after a brief illness, January 16, 1920.

When the war clouds gathered in 1861,he gave himself to his State, joining an Orange company with the 13th Virginia Regiment and following the fortunes of the Confederacy throughout the four years of the bloody struggle. He was in the carnage of First Manassas, and on other hard-fought fields he did a man's part. Once he was wounded.

Upon the close of the war he located at Warrenton and for some years was the efficient clerk of the county court, but he was best known as a member of the mercantile firm of Fletcher Bros.

In 1868 Mr. Fletcher united with the Baptist Church of Warrenton, and for thirty-eight years he was painstaking and accurate clerk of his Church and also served for many years as a most faithful deacon.

On February 6, 1873, he was married to Miss Georgia Owen Latham, daughter of Rev. George Latham, a chaplain in the United States navy.

Mr. Fletcher was a strikingly handsome man, of distinguished appearance, and he had a genial, cheery smile that won for him the love and trust of his fellows. He was always a courtly gentleman, and his life overflowed in generous deeds and kindly thoughts.

As a Christian none surpassed him in his love and loyalty to his Church; as a business man he held high positions of success; but it was in his home that his fine qualities as man and Christian were seen at their best.

His wife died twenty-five years ago, leaving him with six young children. With a wisdom and firmness paternal and with a gentleness and tenderness maternal he instilled into them the highest ideals of honorable manhood and refined and cultured womanhood. Between him and his children there was mutual confidence and dependence. Love ruled the home. He is survived by the two sons and four daughters.

[C.T.H.]