 Mary Elizabeth Fancher is primarily known as M. Fancher Pettis
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The following, submitted January 2005, is from Berta Pettis, whose husband's great grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Fancher.
Mary Elizabeth Fancher was born November 20, 1847 in Elmira, New York. She married William Henry Pettis in 1868 and died in 1930 in San Ansolmo, California. She crossed the plains in a covered wagon at the age of 16, going from Rockford, Illinois to Napa, California. The trip took from April to August 1863.
We have the original letter she wrote to her friend, (showing 500 of 1217 characters). |
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