Maria Antoinette Fletcher

Maria Antoinette Crawford

Maria Antoinette Crawford Fletcher (1792-1853) was the mother of Indiana Fletcher Williams and wife of Elijah Fletcher. She was raised at an estate called Tusculum, a few miles north of present-day Amherst. Elijah Fletcher purchased the Sweet Briar property, then called Locust Ridge, in 1830 from Maria Antoinette's aunt and uncle, Sarah Penn Crewes and Thomas Crewes. She is said to have renamed the plantation Sweet Briar (originally spelled "Sweetbrier") after a small pink rose (Rosa eglanteria) that bloomed here in abundance.

Source: http://sbc.edu/museum/fletcher-williams-family Wife of Elijah Fletcher and mother of Sidney Fletcher, Lucian Fletcher, Elizabeth Fletcher Mosby, and Indiana Fletcher Williams. Daughter of William Sidney Crawford.

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