WASHINGTON COUNTY
INDIANA
BIOGRAPHIES


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JAMES RILEY & MARTHA LOUGHMILLER FANCHER FAMILY


James Riley Fancher was born in July 1838, in Orange County Indiana.  He was a son of Benjamin and Charity Stalcup Fancher. 

He first married Martha Ann Trinkle (1840-1883) on 31 July 1859. 
To this marriage were born 7 children:
Lucy Ann Fancher
Wilford (Stella Childers) Fancher
Ida Bell Fancher (Stephenson)
Rosalie Fancher (Stephenson)
Emma Angelia (Crandall)
John Fancher
Levi Fancher

After his first wife died in 1883, he married Martha Loughmiller on
01 February 1885 in Washington County Indiana.

Martha Loughmiller was born 07 May 1859 in Palmyra, Floyd Co, Indiana, a daughter of Andrew and Christine Ollis Loughmiller.

James Riley and Martha Loughmiller Fancher were the parents of 6 children:
Mary Myrtle (Whitman) - 09 Oct 1893-03 May 1971
Minnie Ellen Fancher (Watson)
Lillian Mae (Newman) - b: 28 Feb 1897
Susan Elizabeth Fancher (Pierson)
Charles Fancher (died about 2yrs of age)
Oscar Andrew Johnson Fancher

James Riley Fancher died in 1909.
Martha Loughmiller Fancher died in 1939.





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