William A. Fletcher (Michigan judge)

Born in Plymouth, New Hampshire, Fletcher was a merchant in Salem, Michigan and then studied law in Esperance, New York.

[1][2][3] While serving as a judge, Fletcher was appointed by the Governor to create a code of laws for the new state of Michigan, which was adopted in 1837 and 1838.

One of her hobbies was to go about town with a basket of eggs on her arm, dressed in the worst old calico gown imaginable.

His colleagues from the Washtenaw bar donated an ornate Egyptian-style metal casket, and he was buried in Ann Arbor's first cemetery, on Huron Street adjacent to his farm.

It matched Fletcher's in terms of style and the time period it was from, and old residents claimed that "without doubt the body was that of the man who was once Michigan's chief justice".

Unlike the first, this one had a metal plate bearing the inscription "William A. Fletcher, died Sept. 19, 1852, aged 64 years".

Later that year, Fletcher was reinterred in his plot in Forest Hill Cemetery next to the casket that has been previously mistaken for his own.