Father: Jacob Pletcher b: 11 Mar 1790 in ,Huntingdon Co.,PA
Mother: Barbara Nestlerode b: 25 Dec 1797 in ,,PA

Marriage: Cyrene Dunmeyer b: ABT 15 Apr 1828 in ,,OH

A Civil War Letter
From: [email protected] (Art & Linda Grames)
Jacob Pletcher was attached to Company D of the 100th Regiment Indiana Volunteers during the Civil War. I don't know what date he enlisted, or the year of the letter (probably 1863). I only know he died of malaria while still in the service. Following is a transcribed copy of the letter (I have retained spelling, lack of punctuation and capitalization exactly as written. Often, but not always, he would capitalize words at the beginning of a line, whether it was the beginning of a sentence or not):
Direct your letters To Grand Junction Tenessee
from Jacob Pletcher
To Sirena Pletcher
Grand Junction Tenessee Jan 21st
Dear Wife
I take my pen in hand to inform you that i am well at present and hope this may find you all the same concerning that Doremire matter i want to know wether He has done anything about it yet or not And if he hasent i want you to let me know immediately and i will see what i can do here for it and if Miltenberger wont wait Till we can fix it here let Sam give him his note till i can arange matters here - let Sam take deed from George W. Doremire And give him his notes i want you to Answer this as soon as you get this and let me know all the partickulars i lent [not readable - looks like "dady Ike"] a little money 50 cts he told me he had a black Walnut tree he would sell me i want you to get it if you can and let dave draw it to the will if you can get it and have it sawed in to anny kind of lumber that will Sell best pay ike the ballance for the tree I lent Mils davis $5 dollars and there is four dollars due me get that and use it let Me know wether you will get your county Bounty and if you do use it to pay the tax You can find out by going and seeing Ellis in goshen when you go there we havent got our pay yet and dont know when we will get it we have pretty severe weather for Some time here raining and snowing the Snow was from 3 to 5 inches deep i think some of having dave come down in my place in the Spring i want to know what you think of it let me know [not readable - might be "how Sams"] Family gets along and all the folks around if i dont get home in time i want you to get the clover seed sowed in time i want you to have two of the best of them Black Walnut trees cut on the other place and hauled to the mill and two of the best poplar trees cut and hauled Make them 12 and 14 ft long cut one small tree to breack the road cut the logs 2 of them 12 ft long And the other two 16 ft long poplar Get them all sawed right away get two of the 12 ft logs of the big tree sawed into 6 in stuff 1 inch thick and saw the Ballance of the 12 ft stuff 8 and 14 in wide 1 inch thick and the 16 ft logs into boards 8 inches wide 1 in thick the 14 ft logs half of them have sawed 8 in wide 1 in thick And the other half into inch boards and have it stuck up right away that skif of Bees that is up to blys if is good fetch it down and have a place fixed for it [unreadable word - might be "next"] them that are at home and set them down and lean a board against the front So that they wont get smothered let me know wether you found all the sheep or not and how the stock gets along no more at present Give My Best Respects to you and all the rest
(Taken from: Letters & Stories, Pletcher Geneology on internet)

" NOTE ON PLACE OF BIRTH "--- Citing from 1881 Crawford County History, The eastern tier of townships
formerly belonging to Richland County, Auburn , Vernon, Jackson and Polk ( Galion ) were surveyed in 1807.---- On 3 February 1845 Crawford County gained a 4 mile stretch of Richland County, which included the above townships.