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11. John M. Thatcher (Married Mattie Steely Rice (12), on 12 or 13 March 1884 in Allen, Ohio (according to LDS) (His obituary says 12th, the wedding certificate says the 13th).

 

Born: 2 January 1854 of John Thatcher (21) & Levina Mettler (22) in Hocking County, Ohio.

 

Died: 22 January 1908; he is buried at Forest Cemetery, Lot 126, Section 33, (GPS: 39° 36.975 ' N; 82° 56.708 ' W) Circleville, Ohio.

 

[His siblings included:

Rosemma Almeda Thatcher (Rose) (Married George Gearhart 23 December 1886). They had a daughter Ethyl, a son Floyd, a stepson named Willie. Her second husband was Henry Riggs.) Born: 3 March 1862 Died: ?;

William P. Thatcher (Wilbur) (Married Sarah Crow 27 February 1873. They had two sons, Alonzo and Ed. Alonzo had a daughter, Dorothy McCaan.) Born: 1845 Died: 23 August 1914;

Mary Ellen Thatcher (Married William Burgoon 6 June 1867. Their children were Rose, Lucius, George, Annie, Matty, Clara Mae, and Albert Elzworth. Rose’s daughter was Diathia C. Scholl.) Born: 1846 Died: 21 June 1919;

Elijah A. Thatcher (Lij) (Married Ida Valentine; they had a son, Carl.) Born: 1851. Died: ?;

Alonzo Carlton Thatcher (Married Laura Deems 21 September 1881. Their children were William, Harry, Pearl, Carl, Margaret, and Walter.) Born: 30 September 1856 Died: 19 December 1918;

Albert Maywood Thatcher (Married Martha [Matty?] Bowsher 1 March 1888. They had three sons, Don, Herbert, and Willis, and an adopted daughter Dorothy. The boys owned a furniture store in Columbus, Ohio.) Born: 25 June 1860. Died: 1934;

Francis Orlando Thatcher (Doc) (Married Elvira (Almira, on 9 April 1871 in Hocking County according to LDS) Siddons. According to the 1910 Ohio Census, he was 61 yrs. residing in Franklin, Columbus. The head of the household was John Thatcher. They had two daughters, Rose and Matty, and three sons, Frank of Washington CH, Tom, and John of Columbus.) Born: 1848 in Pennsylvania. Died:?;

Hannah Loretta Thatcher (Lo) (Married Newton Bushy (Bushee?). They had a son, George. She later married Ellis Shaner) Born: 1847 (1849?). Died: 1912;

Margaret Samantha Thatcher (Mag) (Married William H. Dresbach, 24 October 1878 who died 1 year later; married John William Senff, 10 October 1882. Margaret and John had two children, Roy and Cleo.) Born: 25 April 1858 . Died: 21 November 1905.

Amanda Thatcher (Mandy) (Married Sherman Cox, and then Maurice Hilger or Higler. She had a daughter by one of them named Gertrude. ) Born: 1865. Died: 1933, buried Chicago, Illinois.

Harriet Lozetta Thatcher (Hat) (Married Bascom Moore 24 March 1878. Their children were Cliff, Will, Ralph, Howard, and Claude.) Born: 1853. Died: 1919, buried Chicago, Illinois.

Arey Alice Thatcher Born: 1864 Died: 1865;

Samuel Thatcher Born: 28 November 1869. Died : 1870]

 

 

Left: John posed with 11 of his siblings. Several people are labeled in this photograph, but the only names that can be deciphered are John (standing on the left), William (in the middle of the second row), and Albert (standing on the right). In addition to this information, a distant cousin Natalie (great grandaughter of Francis Orlando) identified two of John's siblings in the front row, far right: Rose (Rosemma) and next to her, Francis Orlando.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Left: John and Mattie’s certificate of marriage.

 

Miscellaneous: John's occupation was a blacksmith. In the 1908/09 Circleville City Directory (called "Moore's Standard Directory"), the following appears on page 58: "Thatcher John horseshoer h 114 1-2 E Main".

John and Mattie had two children Hazel Kirk Thatcher (6) and Russell Rice Thatcher.

 

 

 

Photos below were taken on September 25, 2005.

Above: Tombstone. Below: Grave plot marker.

John’s obituary, written by Charles A. Leach, (#4, his son-in-law) and published in a newspaper reads, “John Thatcher, the son of John and Levina Thatcher, was born in Hocking County, Ohio. He was married to Mattie Rice, March 12, 1884; from this union two children were born, both survive him. On December 3, 1904, it pleased providence to take from him his wife; Mattie Thatcher, since which time he had lived in lonesomeness without her and the sunshine she was to his life. He died on Jan. 22, 1908, aged 53 years and 20 days. Besides his son and daughter, 10 brothers and sisters are left to mourn his loss: William, Ellen, Francis, Loretta, Elijah A., Harriet, Alonzo, Albert, Rose and Amanda. Also other and numerous near relatives. ‘He was honest, a faithful friend, a respected neighbor, and all his life a good and faithful citizen of the country and neighborhood in which he lived. No higher eulogy than this can be written of any man. ‘The boast of herald the pomp of power’ were not for him--he had a better fate in this life; his was the simple life, with its full share of joys and sorrows. ‘To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.’”