William G. Fletcher

FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN: ELDER WILLIAM G. FLETCHER FROM INFORMATION COMPILED BY ELDER BOB DICKERSON: Elder WilliamFletcher (82) was born February 28, 1901 in Irwin County, Georgia, the son of Henry T. and Euna Jane (Young) Fletcher. He passed away February 5, 1984 in Winchester Memorial Hospital, Winchester, Virginia, after several years of declining health. Brother Fletcher was a graduate of Abraham Baldwin College in Tifton, Georgia,and taught school for many years. He united with Eureka Primitive Baptist Church near Waterloo, Georgia, when 20 years of age. He married Kate Elizabeth Smith of Crisp County, Georgia, November 23, 1932. He and Sister Fletcher moved to Warren County, Virginia, in 1948. In 1949, the churches of Virginia having recognized his gift, he was ordained to the ministry by a presbytery composed of Elders C. W. Miller, J. Harvey Daily, Kirk Alderton and Clarence Frazier. He traveled extensively during his ministry and preached in practically every state in the union. He also pastored a number of churches in Virginia, including Union (Sumerduck), Cedar Creek (Middletown), White Oak (Fredericksburg), Kettle Run (Manassas), Bethel (Falls Church), North Fork(Loudoun Co.), Timberridge (W.Va.), St. Clair Bottom (Smyth Co.) and co-pastoredColumbia' (Md.). Elder Fletcher served as editor of the Advocate and Messenger from September 1956 to June 1966. Then in July 1966, he founded the Gospel Appeal, which he edited until 1982.