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This move had the unintended consequence, however, of commencing a division between the Minnesota and Missouri branches of the church, which led to a short-lived schism after Fletcher"s death. Fletcher was born in Clitherall, Minnesota on 22 July 1868. Prior to 1920, there had only been one Cutlerite congregation, in Clitherall.
Independence was an urban environment, in sharp contrast to rural Clitherall.
Fletcher died on 21 July 1953, one day before what would have been his eighty-fifth birthday. He is buried in Clitherall with several other early Cutlerite pioneers in the Mountain.
Pleasant Cemetery.