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From: "Cindy " <>
Subject: Flemings of Athens County, Ohio
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:15:48 -0600

Descendants of John Fleming

Generation No. 1

1. John1 Fleming was born 1777, and died 1841. He married Christina
Smith.

Notes for John Fleming:

In 1819, he came to Ohio, having purchased an interest in the Ohio Land
Company's grant. Being possessed of considerable means, he contributed
liberally in the upbuilding of the country. Knowing of the scarcity of
money in the west, he brought several hundred dollars in silver, mostly of
the denomination of one dollar, which were carefully divided in half or
quartered, as the case demanded, in making change.

After remaining in Ohio six years, he returned to New York City, taking his
family with him. John Fleming died there in 1841, and his wife, Christina
(Smith) Fleming, died in Ames township in 1863.

In the Amesville Census for 1820, John Fleming is shown to be over 45,
Christina, his wife, is shown to be 26-45. They had four children, two
boys under 10, two girls under 10.

More About John Fleming:
Fact 1: Buried in unknown cemetery, New York

More About Christina Smith:
Fact 1: Buried in Gardner Cemetery, Ames Township, Athens County, Ohio

Children of John Fleming and Christina Smith are:
+2i.Jane2 Fleming, born Abt. 1810.
3ii.Martin Fleming, born 1813; died January 08, 1896. He married
Christina Wagner December 13, 1857.

More About Martin Fleming:
Fact 1: need to prove his relationship to Daniel
Fact 2: Date of Death from Athens County Death Records.

4iii.Samuel Fleming, born 1814; died 1888.

More About Samuel Fleming:
Fact 1: need to prove his relationship to Daniel

+5iv.Daniel Fleming, born October 22, 1822 in Bishopville, Ohio; died
1912 in Florida.

Generation No. 2

2. Jane2 Fleming (John1) was born Abt. 1810. She married Charles Weed.

Children of Jane Fleming and Charles Weed are:
6i.Charles H.3 Weed.
7ii.William M. Weed.

5. Daniel2 Fleming (John1) was born October 22, 1822 in Bishopville,
Ohio, and died 1912 in Florida. He married Lucy P. Gardner May 16, 1846,
daughter of Thomas Gardner and Margaret Smith.

Notes for Daniel Fleming:

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Daniel Fleming was born in Athens county near Bishopville, October 22,
1822. He is the son of John and Christina Fleming. John Fleming was born
in Germany in 1777, and came to the United States and settled in New York
at the age of fifteen.

Our subject attended the public and private schools of New York until about
seventeen years of age, when he secured work on a sailing vessel plying
between New York and New Orleans, making several trips between those
points. Becoming acquainted with the engineers of the "New York and
Harlem" Railway, then being built by George Law, one of the few
millionaries of that day, he engaged as fireman on one of their crude, but
at that time wonderful engines. He was afterwards sent to the "Mohawk and
Hudson" Railway, which connected Schenectady and Albany. In this position,
he was an engineer and ran the "John Bull," an engine which was built in
England, and which was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition held at
Chicago in 1893. He was also employed on the steam vessel, "Oregon,"
which, owing to her size and the fact that she was propelled by steam, was
an object of much curiosity.

In 1845, Mr. Fleming returned to Ohio and the scenes of his childhood, and
purchased a farm of fifty acres; he was married May 16, 1846 to Lucy P.
Gardner, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Smith) Gardner. Thirteen
children were born to them, seven of which survive- Joseph, William, John,
Theodore, Lincoln, Julia, and Edith.

SOURCE: " The Centennial Atlas of Athens County, 1905, p. 128"

Cindy

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