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8. HUGH3 FLEMING
(Andrew2, John1);
born circa 1811–1813,139 died 6 June 1837; buried in Miller Farm
Cemetery;140 married Elizabeth141 [—?—]. Hugh’s stone
in Miller Farm Cemetery reads, “Hugh Fleming; died 6 June 1837 in his
24th year.”
This from Venango County Intelligenier, page 9, 13 June 1837:
This Benjamin Hazen was probably Benjamin Hazen [Sr.], father of the Benjamin Gates Hazen who was born 4 January 1815, and married on 8 December 1842 Rachel McClintock, a daughter of Hamilton and Mary Culbertson McClintock—see McClintocks in the section "Descendants Reports." In 1837, Benjamin Gates Hazen [Jr.] would have only been in his 22nd year.143 Hugh Fleming died intestate. Elizabeth Fleming and Adam Holiday of Crawford County were appointed administrators, with witnesses James Kinnear and John Evans of Venango County, and are “firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the sum of six thousand dollars . . .”144 I do not know whether this means that at the time (23 June 1838) Elizabeth was living in Crawford County. Adam Holliday is known from other documents to be a Titusville resident, Crawford County. He was apparently a lawyer or at least with training in jurisprudence, since he was mentioned in several Venango County wills and orphan court documents. Hugh Fleming was also listed in the Venango County Index of Wills, Allegheny Township; heir was reported as William Fleming.145 Venango County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court, 1839, Docket 1,
number 3, page 105:146 The Petition of Ann Fleming widow of Andrew Fleming late of said county deceased respectfully reported that _____ husband died intestate leaving her six children, Hugh the eldest son since deceased leaving issue a son and widow that said son [William Fleming] is entitled to certain real estate belonging to her _____ husband in right of its father your petitioner. To Hugh Fleming deceased that the said William Fleming is an infant of _____ [this left blank] years old and charge upon your petitioner its mother having left the Commonwealth. Your petitioner therefore prays your honorable court therefore to appoint some _____ able person Guardian for said William Fleming until he shall arrive at the age of fourteen to manage his person and estate and your petitioner as is duty bound will ever pray and _____ . [Ann Fleming, her mark] The Court appointed Hamilton McClintock (Ann's brother) guardian, 27 August 1839.147 Venango County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court, Docket 1, page 128, number 2–1840: ESTATE OF HUGH FLEMING “The petition of Francis McClintock, administrator of the Estate of Andrew Fleming late of said county deceased. The respectful respondent to your honorable court that Hugh Fleming late of said county died intestate that he was the son of said Andrew Fleming. That at the time of his death he was indebted to the Estate of Andrew Fleming. That Adam Holiday and Elizabeth Fleming the _____ administrators upon the Estate of the said Hugh Fleming. That the debt due the Estate of Andrew Fleming is unpaid That more than one year has passed since letter of Administration were granted to the said Adam Holliday and Elizabeth Fleming. That they have not _____ [filed ?] settled their administrators account in the Orphan Court. Your petitioners therefore prays your honorable court to award a citation returnable to the next Orphans Court commanding and requiring them to settle their account forthwith and your Petition will pray. April 28th 1840 Francis McClintock Same page, the Court did order a citation be issued. In another part of the 1840 Venango County Orphans Court document,148 Adams Holliday reported claims against the estate of Hugh Fleming, including the intriguing item: “Of Lee [?] F. Fleming of whom Lee is the surviving partner but who is unable to satisfy the demands amounting to many hundreds of dollars but which the subscriber is unable to _____ [satisfy ?] . . .” Who was the Lee F. Fleming (if Lee F. is the correct interpretation of the spelling in this hand–written document), Hugh Fleming’s “surviving partner … [and] who was unable to satisfy the demands amounting to many hundreds of dollars.” The given names of our early Flemings seem all accounted for with the exception of some of Edward Fleming’s children. Perhaps Lee was a pet name, but Hugh’s brothers, Andrew and John, were too young at the time to have been a partner. This document also indicated that Hugh’s father, Andrew, in addition to having 400 acres of land in Allegheny Township, had 200 acres of unimproved land in Cussawago Township [in north central Crawford County, bordering on Erie County] and that Hugh, as one of the six children, was entitled to his undivided sixth part of this real estate. The undivided sixth part of the 400 acres in Allegheny Township was put up for public sale 12 June 1841 and sold to Ann McClintock for $140 on 16 August 1841, she being the highest bidder.149 An affidavit of Francis McClintock (Ann Fleming’s brother), subscribed to 24 November 1841, reports that Francis McClintock purchased “all the interest of Hugh Fleming’s, one sixth undivided part for $100.”150 This resulted in a petition, same document, page 130, by Adam Holliday “to make return of sale,” stating that $100 was too low and “and to have permitted it to go at that price would have been sacrificing the same.” This was to be continued at the next court session. I do not know the outcome. However, in an 1842 Crawford Count Orphans Court document,151 Adam Holliday requested the Court to give him permission to sell the undivided sixth part of 200 acres of land in Cussawago Township, Crawford County, to pay debts of Hugh Fleming. On 17 April 1842, the Court so ordered. In this 1842 petition there is no mention of Elizabeth, Hugh’s widow. Although it is difficult to piece together family history information from a few legal documents, the Venango County Orphans Court documents indicate some unusual circumstances resulting from Hugh Fleming’s death in June 1837, following only three years after the death of Hugh’s father, Andrew. Complicating matters, both Andrew and his son Hugh died intestate. The documents tell us that William, son of Hugh and Elizabeth Fleming, was an infant when his father died in 1837. In June 1838 Elizabeth Fleming and her legal representative, Adam Holliday, bounded by a $6000 security, were appointed administrators of Hugh’s estate. However, by August 1839, Elizabeth had apparently “left the Commonwealth,” and her mother–in–law Ann (McClintock) Fleming petitioned the court to appoint a guardian for William. Ann’s brother Hamilton McClintock was appointed guardian. Recall that another brother of Ann’s, Francis McClintock, was administrator of the estate of Ann’s husband, Andrew Fleming. The debt due Hugh Fleming’s estate by Elizabeth Fleming and Adam Holliday had not been paid by 1840.152 After citation to settle the account in Orphans Court, and after Holliday received permission to sell the Cussawago property, the debt was paid in November 1842. What happened to Elizabeth Fleming and her son William Fleming? In 1839, William apparently was living with his grandmother Ann (McClintock) Fleming, being “an infant of _____ [this left blank] years old and [a] charge upon your petitioner, it’s mother having left the Commonwealth.” However, in 1840 William apparently was not in the household of Ann (McClintock) Fleming,153 nor with his guardian, Hamilton McClintock,154 re the ages of people enumerated in these households in 1840. There was a female under 5 living with Hamilton and Mary (Culbertson) McClintock in 1840 in Cornplanter Township. I can not place this female. Possibly the female under 5 should be a male under five, in which case he probably would have been William Fleming. But probably William was with his mother by 1840 or soon after this. Although Elizabeth might have left Pennsylvania shortly after Hugh died, she was obviously in touch with the Venango County Orphans Court. Except as suggested below, I can not find records of an Elizabeth Fleming fitting the Elizabeth, wife of Hugh Fleming. Elizabeth’s maiden name might have been Hazen. As indicated, Hugh died at the residence of Benjamin Hazen [probably Sr.] in Cornplanter Township in June 1837. This was 5 years before Ann (McClintock) Fleming’s niece Rachel McClintock married a son of Benjamin Hazen. Also, Benjamin Hazen [Sr.] was known to have had a daughter Elizabeth, contemporary with Hugh’s age, and this daughter was known to have had a son William, contemporary with the age of William Fleming, son of Hugh. This information is known from Hazen’s (1947) work on the Hazens of America. However, Professor Hazen did not list him as a Fleming. This from Hazen (1947), pp. 362–363, pertaining to Elizabeth
Hazen, born in Herkimer (or German), New York, the first child of
Benjamin and Nancy (Willard) Hazen (the superscripts refer to
generation numbers):
I did not list the other five children. William is not followed further in Professor Hazen’s book. Possibly he was not aware of Elizabeth’s first marriage to Hugh Fleming and misinterpreted information he received on Elizabeth Hazen. I do not know his source for Elizabeth marrying Morris Hood in 1835 in McClintockville. (McClintockville probably did not exist as such until the oil excitements of the early 1860s.) In the 1850 census for Moses Hood in Cornplanter Township (enumerated next to Hamilton McClintock) and in the 1860 census for Richland Township, Jackson County, Iowa, William was enumerated as William Hood, born circa 1837 in Pennsylvania.155 However until Elizabeth’s marriage to Morris Moses Hood on 29 December 1835 can be substantiated (one citation in a family history with additional ones taken from the family history citation in question can be misleading), I am not prepared to dismiss Elizabeth Hazen as the wife of Hugh Fleming. Both the marriage date of Elizabeth and Morris Hood and the birth date of son William Hood, 20 March 1837, would nicely fit with when Elizabeth and Hugh Fleming must have been married and when their son William was born. Also, Hugh Fleming died at Benjamin Hazen’s residence . There is no indication in Hazen (1947) that William married. William died in Saegertown, Woodcock Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in 1867.156 I could not find a William Hood in the General Index of Crawford County Wills, A–K, 1800–1970. 9. SARAH ANN3 FLEMING (Andrew2, John1); born circa 1815157 in Allegheny Township; married SAMUEL A. SHREVE, born 19 September 1812 in Venango County; died 21 September 1884 in Alexandria, Nebraska.158 Samuel Shreve’s ancestors go back to a Caleb Shreve, born about 1652 in Portsmouth, Rhodes Island; he married Sarah Arenson. Caleb’s parents were Thomas and Martha Sheriff, the name apparently being changed to Shreve when the family came to North America from Great Britain (Allen 1901, see References). The founder of this Shreve family in Venango County, Pennsylvania, was James and Catherine (Berry) Shreve. James was a great-great grandson of the above mentioned Caleb Shreve. The Venango County Shreves were related to several Fleming-line ancestors through marriages. Besides James and Catherine’s son Samuel, who married Sarah Ann Fleming, another son of James and Catherine, George Shreve, married Margaret Miller (Culbertson line). The first wife of Walker H. Sedorus, who married (tentative) Mary Jane Shreve (a sister of George Shreve) was Elizabeth Henderson (Henderson line). George and Margaret’s son George A. Shreve married Elizabeth Janette Jamison (Jamison line). George A. Shreve’s brother James A. Shreve married Belle Lytle (Lytle and Culbertson lines). The Shreve family is treated in detail in "Notes on Shreves," pages 241-255 in Volume 2 of The Oil Creek Flemings of Venango County, Pennsylvania, with related families McClintocks, Culbertsons, Jamisons, Lytles, Morrisons, Watsons and Hendersons (1999). Samuel Shreve (as a blacksmith) and family were enumerated in Allegheny Township in 1850 and 1860.159 In 1851, Samuel A. Shreve purchased land from his brother–in–law Andrew Fleming [Jr.] of Allegheny Township; the witness was W. H. Fleming—he is probably the William Fleming (#19), son of Daniel and Rachel (Hardy) Fleming160 In 1860, Ann Fleming, mother of Sarah Ann (Fleming) Shreve, was living in Allegheny Township in the household of James Shreve (age 74), Catherine Shreve (age 65), Sarah Shreve (age 35, born circa 1825), Sarah J. Shreve (age 11, born circa 1849), an Oakley Tyrell, James Tanner, age 30, Margaret Tanner, age 27, and the Tanner children (Joseph Tanner, age 9, Debra Tanner, age 7. John Tanner, age 5, and Mary E. Tanner, age 2). The Sarah Shreve, age 35 was not the wife of Samuel Shreve. She was an unmarried daughter of James and Catherine Shreve and is buried in Miller Farm Cemetery, where her stone reads: “Sarah A. dau of J. and G? (sic) Shreve; died 18 June 1869, 43y/3m/8d,”161 [born 10 March 1826]. But the Sarah J. Shreve, age 11, is a daughter of Samuel and Sarah Shreve and is also buried in Miller Farm Cemetery where her stone reads: “daughter of S. S. and S. A. Shreve; died 11 May 1861, age 12 years and 23 days.” A post 1865 map for upper Oil Creek162 lists a land tract as “Andrew Fleming, Jr., and Sarah Ann Shreve” (and G. A. Dearborn). One would suspect this tract was inherited from their father, Andrew Fleming, through Ann (McClintock) Fleming. The Venango County Grantors Index lists a transaction from Andrew Fleming to Sarah A. Shreve, instituted 1850, recorded 1 September 1852, Allegheny Township.163 The Andrew would be Andrew, Jr., brother of Sarah Ann (Fleming) Shreve.
10. RACHEL3 FLEMING (Andrew2, John1); born circa 1816; died 4 September 1843,168 buried in Miller Farm Cemetery;169 married WILLIAM MITCHELL HENDERSON,170 born 1816; died 5 May 1900 in Titusville, Oil Creek Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania.171 William Henderson was Samuel and Rebecca (Mitchell) Henderson’s son—see Hendersons in the section ”Descendants Reports.” After Rachel’s death, William married Mary Jane Brawley and after her death William married Mary B. Haskins. For more information on William Mitchell Henderson see Henderson web siteRachel (Fleming) Henderson’s stone probably had an inscription reading, “Hosannah for the grave is void. Broken the loathsome prison. The power of death is all destroyed. The Prince of Life is risen.”172 William Henderson’s second wife, Mary Jane (Brawley) Henderson (born 24 March 1818; died 5 May 1854), is also buried in Miller Farm Cemetery; and because both Rachel and Mary Jane’s stones were broken and scattered at the time the inscription was read in 1992, possibly the inscription goes with Mary Jane (Brawley) Henderson’s stone. However, the inscription was reported with Rachel’s dates.
11. ZIBIAH3 FLEMING (Andrew2, John1); born 1820; died in 1851, at “31 yrs., 3 mos., 23 day,” buried in Memory Acres Cemetery (also called old Pleasantville Cemetery) Pleasantville, Pennsylvania.174 Memory Acres Cemetery is no longer in use. I believe some of those interred there were re–interred in Fairview Cemetery, Pleasantville, Pennsylvania. Zibiah married SAMUEL PARSHALL,175 born 6 November 1814 in Trumbull County, Ohio, 176 died 4 February 1901 in Venango County.177 Samuel was a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Goutcher or Goucher) Parshall, originally from Massachusetts.178 For more information on the Parshall family, see end note #178. Both Samuel and Elizabeth (Goutcher) Parshall are buried in New Tidioute Cemetery, Warren County, Pennsylvania.179 In 1844, Samuel Parshall (no mention of a wife) purchased land in Allegheny Township from William T. Neill and wife Jane (McCasland)—see Lytles in the section Descendants Reports. ”180 This would have been about the time that Samuel and Zibiah were married. In 1850, Zibiah’s mother, Ann Fleming, and her brother, Andrew Fleming, were living with Zibiah and Zibiah’s husband, Samuel Parshall, in Allegheny Township.181 After Zibiah’s death , Samuel Parshall married Lucy Ann Henderson, a daughter of David and Jane (Watson) Henderson. Samuel and Lucy Henderson Parshall had three children—see Hendersons in the section Descendants Reports. Another son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Goutcher) Parshall was George Stranahan Parshall 182 who married Flora Thompson. One of their children was Edwin Parshall who married Lola M. Henderson (see Hendersons in the section “Descendants Reports.”) a niece of Samuel Parshall’s second wife, Lucy Henderson.
12. JOHN3 FLEMING (Andrew2, John1); born 22 November 1822 in Pennsylvania; died 10 September 1902 in Portland, Chautauqua County, New York; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, New York; married ESTHER JANE HENDERSON, born 8 February 1824 in Pennsylvania; died 25 July 1903 in Portland, Chautauqua County, New York.185 Esther Jane was a daughter of David and Jane (Watson) Henderson, David being a brother of Margaret (Henderson) Watson— see Watsons and Hendersons in the section ”Descendants Reports.” John Fleming (and brother Andrew) were known first from an August 1839 petition of Ann Fleming for a guardian of John and Andrew, “minors over the age of 14 . . .”186 Ninian Irwin was appointed guardian. In 1850, John and family were in Allegheny Township.187 In 1860, John was listed as a farmer and sawyer in Harmony Township, Venango County (now Forest County).188 John and family came to Portland, Chautauqua County, New York in the mid 1860s; he eventually became postmaster in Portland.189 John was enumerated as a farmer in Portland in 1870 and 1880.190 In 1900, John and Esther were living by themselves in Portland Township, where John was listed as a farm laborer.191
12. ANDREW3 FLEMING (Andrew2, John1); born circa 1825.194 Andrew married ALICE A. [—?—] (possibly BROWNLEE or BINNEY), born circa 1830.195 Andrew’s father died when Andrew was about age seven. In 1840, Andrew was living with his mother, Ann Fleming, head of household, in Allegheny Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania.196Andrew was still with his mother in 1850, in the household of Ann’s son–in–law Samuel Parshall in Allegheny Township.197 In 1860, Andrew Fleming, wife Alice A. and children Henry (or Harry), Clarissa, and Timothy (John) were living in Pleasantville Borough, Pennsylvania, in the household of Thomas and Ellen Stevenson. 198 At that time Andrew was enumerated as a farmer and tanner with $7,000 in real estate and $3, 685 in personal estate. Also in the household in 1860 was an Elizabeth McClintock (born circa 1837). I can not associate Elizabeth with the Venango County McClintocks, but suspect she is of our McClintocks.199 Andrew seemed to be somewhat of an entrepreneur with numerous land dealings. Between 1857 and 1865, there were 18 land transactions recorded for Andrew and wife Alice A. as the Grantors. Note a very interesting land transaction initiated by Andrew (Jr.) presented in section of his father, Andrew Fleming (Sr.) (#3). Several of Andrew and Alice’s land transactions involved selling or buying land from Shreves.200 These and numerous other land transactions instituted between 1857 and 1864 for land in Jackson, Cherrytree, Allegheny Townships and for lots in Pleasantville, suggest Andrew and family moved out of the area by 1865. This is confirmed by an 1865 land deed recorded 27 April 1865, at which time Andrew, Alice and children Clarissa and Timothy were living in Portland, Chautauqua County.201 At that time, Andrew was enumerated as a farmer. Also in the household in 1865 were Orson Tiff (probably Tefft202), age 19, born in Chautauqua County and listed as a hired man, and Harriet Charles, age 20, born Pennsylvania, a servant. This 1865 New York census lists Andrew’s estate valued at $9,848, with 112 acres of land, 14 pigs, 140 sheep, 10 chickens, 3 dairy cows and 8 horses.203 Our Andrew Fleming/Flemming was not in the 1870 federal census for Chautauqua County, New York, nor could I find him in any of the other 1870 federal censuses for any state. The best I could do is the 1870 federal census for Kalamazoo, Michigan,204 where there was an A. Fleming, born circa 1825 in Pennsylvania with an Alice Fleming, born circa 1828 in Pennsylvania, and children (1) Clara Fleming, born circa 1855 in Pennsylvania; (2) John Fleming (this would be Timothy?), born circa 1859 in Pennsylvania; and Bertha Fleming, born circa 1868 in Michigan. This A. Fleming was enumerated as a physician, with $10,000 in real estate and $2,000 in personal estate. “Physician” was probably a mistake on the part of the census taker or the person providing the information. In 1880, this Andrew Fleming, still in Kalamazoo with Alice, Clara, John and Berth, was enumerated as a retired merchant, “paralyzed.” 205 By 1900, this Andrew had died, but Alice and children John and Bertha were still in Kalamazoo.206 Clara apparently had died, since the census reports Alice with four children, two living. The census lists Alice born August 1828 in Pennsylvania and parents born in Pennsylvania. In 1900, John Fleming was enumerated as a commercial traveler (no specialty listed). I could not find Alice, John nor Bertha Fleming in subsequent censuses. What was the maiden name of Andrew’s wife Alice A.? I know of no primary documents or Fleming family histories giving the maiden name of Andrew Fleming’s (Jr.) wife. Circumstantial evidence suggests her maiden name was Binney or Brownlee. Four of Andrew and Alice’s land transactions were with Binneys. The last transactions in the name of Andrew and Alice was instituted 9 September 1865, recorded 27 April 1865.207 At that time Andrew and Alice Fleming were listed in the deed as living in Portland, Chautauqua County, New York. (This is the place where Andrew’s brother, John, moved to in 1865.) In this deed, Andrew and Alice quit claimed for $1.00 their interest in 25 acres of land in Pleasantville, Allegheny Township, to George W. Binney of Pleasantville, Allegheny Township. The land was deeded to John Binney, father of George W. Binney, but “the deed was lost and John was dead.” Also, in September 1862, Andrew and Alice assigned (quit claim) to Mrs. Cynthia Ann Binney one acre of land in Allegheny Township for $75208 [$75 seems expensive for one acre; perhaps this amount or the one acre is in error]. Although these quit claims are not proof that Alice was a Binney, presumably a daughter of John Binney, 209 this is sufficient evidence to suggest Alice might have been a Binney. However, in 1850, John and Susan Binney (spelled Baney in 1850) were in Allegheny Township, but no Alice was listed, although one child was a Susan, born circa 1831 in Pennsylvania.
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