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Sara Jane Fletcher was my great grandAunt. She was born in
Callaway Co. Missouri in 1848, a daughter of John F. Fletcher and Judith Simco. She was a grandaughter of John Sr. and Mary Fletcher, who came from Virginia to Callaway Co. Missouri about 1826. She was also a grandaughter of James Simco and Francis Canada.
On September 22, 1870, she married Capt. Isaac Newton Sitton. Isaac Sitton's brother, Edward Sitton married Sara Jane's sister, Lucy. Isaac Sitton was born Jan. 6, 1836 in Callaway Co., Missouri. He was a son of John Sitton and Sally Jamison. He was a grandson of Jeffery Sitton of North Carolina. Jeffery Sitton married Polly Bostick of North Carolina, and settled in Callaway county in 1819. His children were: Joseph, John, Benjamin F., William M., Vincent R., Thomas B., Polly, Sally, Mahala, Lydia, and Maria. Joseph, son of Jeffery Sitten, kept the first hotel in Fulton, in 1825. Isaac Sitton was a Captain on the side of the Confederacy and commanded a company of the Callaway Guard during the Civil War. Thirteen Companies entered the Southern Army from Callaway County. No record was preserved by any of the Commnaders or the Confederate Government. What southern records exist, can be found at the Missouri States Archives, Jefferson City or the Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia. the United Daughters of the Confederacy-Missouri records are the most complete group of records for the southern soldiers. The following officers commanded the thirteen companies: Robert M. Berry; George Brooks; Henry Burt; Creed Carter; David Craig; Jefferson Gibbs; -Thomas Hamilton; Thomas Holland; George Law; D. H. McIntyre; Milton Scholl; I. N. Sitton; Preston Wilkerson. [Callaway County History] This was Isaac Sitton's second marriage. The 1870 census shows him living with his father two sisters, son John T., and his 9 yr old daughter Bettie. obit - Aug. 22, 1873 Sitton Died – Near this city, -- Sunday evening, Aug. 17, 1873, of spinal meningitis, Bettie, only daughter of Capt. Isaac N. Sitton, aged 12 years and 11 days. Sara Jane and Isaac Newton Sitton had four children:
Sara Jane Fletcher Sitton died July 8, 1884 in Callaway County Missouri. Her youngest child was only 3 years old at the time. I have not yet found where she was buried. In 1900, Isaac was a Justice of the Peace in Callaway Co., Missouri. Issac Newton Sitton died May 16, 1905. He was buried in Hillcrest cemetery, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri. obit - Fulton Telegraph, Callaway Weekly Gazette Capt. I.N. Sitton Dead Capt. Isaac Newton Sitton, president of the Callaway Confederate Association, died at his home in Fifth street, this city, Tuesday morning of Bright's disease, after an illness of several months. He was born two miles west of Fulton on January 6, 1836, and with the exception of the years of the Civil War, he spent his entire life in the county. He was a member of the first company of Confederate soldiers raised in Callaway county, that of Gen. D.H. McIntyre, and spent the entire four years in the service of the south. Later he was a captain of a company under Gen. Jo Shelby and finally surrendered in Texas. Captain Sitton was police judge of Fulton at the time of his death. He served two terms as assessor of the county and one term as representative in the general assembly. He was mayor of Fulton two years. He was twice married - first to Miss Susan Wiggs, of Andrew county, who died in 1864. Later he was married to Miss Jane Fletcher, of this county. Five children survive him, via; John Sitton, of St. Louis, a child of the first wife; Jefferson D. Sitton, of the state of Louisiana; Mrs,. Addie Sartor, of Fulton; Howard Sitton, of Chicago, and Miss Emma Sitton, of Omaha, Neb. Edward Sitton, of Tebbetts, this county, is a brother of the deceased. He was a member of the Fulton Christian church and funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon in the church of that denomination by Rev. M.A. Hart, after which burial occurred in the new cemetery. |
