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From: "Johnny or Louise Bates" <>
Subject: [TX-Cem] Thomas Sloan FLETCHER
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:34:13 -0600


Transcription by Louise Stafford Bates, his grandaughter.
Misspellings are as given in obit.
(it was not easy to leave them in there)

Jan 11, 1931
San Angelo Evening Standard

S. FLETCHER OF CONCHO, DEAD

Paint Rock, Jan. 12.- Sloan Flet-
cher, 42 years old, Concho Co pio-
neer, died suffenly Sunday morning
at 9 o'clock of acute indigestion. He
came to this section of West Texas in
1899 when he was eleven years old.
He was a farmer and a ranchman.
Funreal services were hedl yester-
day afternoon conducted by the Rev.
J. D. Grounds of the Baptist church,
of which Mr. Fletcher was a member.
Mr. Fletcher is survived by his wi-
dow, seven children, mother and two
brothers.

The following was written to the Concho Herald.
Transcribed by Sloan's granddaughter, Louise Stafford Bates.
Spelling errors are as published:

IN MEMORY OF SLOAN
FLETCHER -
Sloan, as he was called by his man
friends, was a man who had many
friends and but few enemies. He al-
ways had a good word and a pleasant
smile for every one he met. He was
mild in temper and as patient as Job
and I believe he could have said, like
Job, "I know that my Redemer liveth. "
He was a good kind husband, a good
kind father and a good kind neighbor
and he was a real Christian gentleman.
What more could be said of any man.
But Sloan has crossed that Great
Divide from whose bourne no traveler
has ever returned. Yes, we know
Sloan will never pass this way again,
but I believe there will be a time
some time and a place somewhere
where we will meet again. Job spoke
of a place where the wicked cease from
troubling and the weary shall be at
rest. Oh, what a glorius thought.
Now I will say to his aged mother,
his broken-hearted companion and his
dear children, we know it is hard to
give him up but remember God has
said in his word, "I will be a husband
to the widow, and a father to the
orphan. Oh, if it could be said of us
as it has been said of Sloan Fletcher,
he tried to do his duty.
-Written by a friend who knew him.

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