Amos was the son of William Letcher & Polly Garfied - she was the aunt of President James A Garfield.
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| courtesy of Anna Labadie - Ancestry |
Herbert was a printer/publisher and first married Mary Florence Hamilton, the daughter of William D Hamilton & Mary E Rainey. Mary went by her middle name, Florence or Flora.
For many years, that was all I had on this pairing.
While I knew that Herbert & Flora divorced, today I discovered it was contentious. According to the blog by Pamela Lash, he sued her in 1889 for divorce & custody of their son accusing her of being willfully absent. It didn't go in his favor and his ex-wife & child relocated to New York.
She remarried in 1900 to a Robert McBride but whether he died or they divorced as well I couldn't say, but she went back to using Letcher by 1910. But was her absence in the first place the result of a cult!?!
Brooklyn Eagle, Tues, 14 Feb 1939
Mrs F H Letcher
Funeral services were
to be held today in the Fairchild Chapel, 85 Lefferts Place for Mrs Florence H
Letcher, for many years a resident of Brooklyn, who died Saturday at the home
of her son, Harold Letcher, 20 Ardsley Place, Rockville Centre. Burial was to
be private. Mrs Letcher was 77 and a native of Syracuse,. Her husband, Herbert
Letcher, who died a number of years ago was a publisher. Surviving, in addition
to her son, is a sister, Mrs Harriet Bent of Winchester, Mass.
Herbert & Flora's son, Harold Hamilton Letcher, went on to be very successful in his own right as a Life Insurance Agent and married Margaret Berryman Burns, the daughter of Rev Frank L Burns & Martha J Berryman. They had one daughter, Martha Florence Letcher.
Herbert & Flora's son, Harold Hamilton Letcher, went on to be very successful in his own right as a Life Insurance Agent and married Margaret Berryman Burns, the daughter of Rev Frank L Burns & Martha J Berryman. They had one daughter, Martha Florence Letcher.
New York Times, 10 Sep 1964Herbert's second wife was widow Ella Yerk, the daughter of George Hospelhorn & Maria L Bamber and they had a daughter, Nina Louise Letcher.
LETCHER—Harold Hamilton, on Sept. 8, 1964, in Indianapolis, beloved husband of Margaret, father of Florence Kreter; a loving grandfather of four grandchildren. Interment in Indianapolis.
James Herbert Letcher died in 1930
The Lima News, Fri, 29 Aug 1930
Former Editor Dies At Ottawa Thursday
OTTAWA, Aug. 29 - James Herbert Letcher, 80, father of Mrs. Lawrence Labadie, died Thursday night at the Labadie home, following an illness due to the infirmities of age. He was for many years owner and editor of the Ottawa Gazette, the Republican weekly newspaper of Putnam-co. Previous to that time and since Mr. Letcher has been identified with various weekly and semi-weekly publications in Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky. His wife died some years ago. Services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Labadie residence on W. Main-St. Burial will be in Harmon cemetery, near Gilboa, beside the grave of his wife.
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