Rev
Robert
Capers
"RC"
Fletcher
Born in Arab, Marshall, Alabama, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Jefferson D Fletcher
and Minnie L (Cobb) Fletcher
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Estelle (Caldwell) Fletcher
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Father of
John Coldwell Fletcher and Estelle Louise Fletcher
Died
at about age 87
in Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Nov 2016
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Biography
R.C. Fletcher was born in 1901 in Arab, Alabama. By the age of 4, he had become deaf. He graduated from the Alabama School for the Deaf and went on to Gallaudet University, and finally graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Divinity from the Philadelphia Episcopal Seminary. He became an Episcopalian Minister and strove to improve conditions for those who were also deaf.
He married Estelle Caldwell and had a number of children including Dr. John C. Fletcher, Roberta (Fletcher) Ray, Georgianna Fletcher, and Louise Fletcher.
He died March 3, 1988 in Alexandria Hospital in Virginia after a heart attack.
Sources
See also:
- "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK7V-S1Z : accessed 18 November 2016), C Robert Fletcher in household of D Jefferson Fletcher, Albertville, Marshall, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 97, sheet 7B, family 131, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 25; FHL microfilm 1,374,038.
- "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V15Y-PC5 : accessed 18 November 2016), Robert C Fletcher, Tract 49, Birmingham, Election Precinct 37, Jefferson, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 68-227, sheet 1B, line 78, family 23, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 96.
- Obituary: "The Rev. R. C. Fletcher Dies." The Washington Post, 5 March 1988, available at washingtonpost.com (link retrieved 5 March 2018).
- Ray, Delia. "Author's Note" available in Singing Hands, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006; profile of her grandfather Robert Capers Fletcher with family photograph, snippet view available at books.google.com.
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