Jacob Fleming

Before we begin our story of William Fleming and the Civil War, I thought a little genealogy might be in order.

My earliest known Fleming ancestor, Jacob Fleming, was born in North Carolina about 1772.  He married Niomey Goodwin in Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky.

Their children include:

• Noris Fleming, born September 13, 1801 in Kentucky
• Benjamin Fleming, born in 1802 in Kentucky
• Sarah Fleming, born in 1805 in Clark County, Ohio
• Catherine Fleming, born March 1, 1806 in Clark County, Ohio
• and possibly another daughter, Elizabeth

Noris, Benjamin, Sarah and Catherine were all married in Clark County, Ohio in 1822 and 1823.  By the 1830 census, Jacob was living in Adams Township, Champaign County, Ohio.  

Jacob and Niomey are living in Delaware, Indiana at the time of the 1840 census.  Their children and grandchildren were in Clark, Champaign, and Logan Counties in the 1830s, but also began to migrate into Indiana in the 1840s.

Niomey died in the 1840s, and Jacob was living with his daughter Sarah and her family in Champaign County, Ohio at the time of the 1850 census.  Jacob died before the1860 census.