Fletcher Family (L-R) Daughter Louise, Father Dix, & Mother Louisa Two corpses in one house. Marietta Journal (Georgia) Thursday, 15 July 1886 FATHER AND DAUGHTER DEAD. It has seldom occurred in the history of any one family in Marietta when there were two corpses in one house, but such was the case Tuesday night and yesterday, -- an aged father and invalid daughter reposed in the cold embrace of death at the residence of Mrs. H. G. Cole, daughter of the former and sister of the latter. Miss Louise E. Fletcher died about seven o'clock Monday night and Mr. Dix Fletcher died at ten o'clock Tuesday night. Both had been on beds of affliction for a long time; sufferers in the flesh, their released spirits soon joined each other on the other shore, rejoicing in deliverance from the shackles of clay and triumph over the grave. Their Christian lives bright in good deeds and loyal devotion to God dispel all doubt as to their being numbered with the redeemed of the 'crucified On...
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