John Fletcher "Fletch" Alcorn and Elizabeth Kightlinger

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Husband John Fletcher "Fletch" Alcorn ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1840 - Cherrytree Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Mar 1884 3
         Buried:  - Fairview Cemetery, Cherrytree Twp, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Robert Alcorn (1797-1869) 4 5 6
         Mother: Mary Benn (1806-1875) 4

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       Marriage: 21 Nov 1865 1

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Wife Elizabeth Kightlinger ^{1 3}

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           Born: Abt 1848
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Jul 1937 - Atlanta, Fulton Co, GA 7
         Buried:  - Atlanta, Fulton Co, GA

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Children

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1 M O. K. G. Alcorn ⁷

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           Born: 1866 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 5 Jan 1931 - Atlanta, Fulton Co, GA 7
         Buried: 

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2 M Earl V. Alcorn ⁷

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           Born: 1868 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 1938 7
         Buried: 

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3 M Floyd Alcorn ⁷

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           Born: 1874 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 13 Dec 1874 7
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Ina E. Alcorn ⁷

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           Born: 1876 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 1945 7
         Buried: 

         Spouse: [Unk] Wheeler (      -      ) 7

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General Notes: Husband - John Fletcher "Fletch" Alcorn

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He enlisted in the Union Army Sept. 8, 1862 in company D, 18th P. V. C., and served under Gens. Kilpatrick and Custer. Discharged on Mar. 14, 1864 with rank of Corporal (or Orderly Sergeant?) because of bad health: TB. He entered the army with his cousin, John Wesley Alcorn, who died while a POW in Andersonville Prison in Georgia.

He and his wife had several children. His farm was in the Breedtown, Venango County, Pennsylvania, area; it was the Amos S. Hancox farm which he and his brother Jonathan M. Alcorn, purchased from the Hancox heirs. "Fletch" had a brand new house built on the property. He was a prosperous farmer.

He had a sale and sold his farm but took sick before moving to Iowa where his brother, Winans, had gone to scout out land for homsteading. The family did move out of state after the father's death and lived in Warren, Ohio; Buffalo, New York; New Castle, Pennsylvania; Youngstown, Ohio; and then Atlanta, Georgia.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 569.

2 Earl Prather, The Alcorn Family in Northwestern Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1997), Pg 2.

3 Earl Prather, The Alcorn Family in Northwestern Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1997), Pg 13.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 567.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 590.

6 Earl M. Prather, Alcorn Family Genealogy (Centerville, PA: Self-published, 2003), Pg 1.

7 Earl Prather, The Alcorn Family in Northwestern Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1997), Pg 14.