William Fleming

William Fleming

William Fleming was born March 29, 1830 in Logan County, Ohio, the third child of Noris Fleming and Lucinda Boyce. At the time of the 1850 census, William is living with his parents and working as a carpenter in Randolph County, Indiana.   He married Nancy Ann Leigh in Windsor, Randolph Country, Indiana on March 20, 1850.

They had one daughter, Olive, who was born about 1855, but died when she was six.  There may have been one or two daughters born before Olive who died very young.

At some point William and his family, as well as his parents, had all moved from Indiana to Illinois.

William and Nancy's first son, James Norris Delaney Fleming, was born October 26, 1858 in Waynesville, DeWitt Country, Illinois.

At the time of the 1860 census the William Fleming family is still living in Waynesville, DeWitt County, Illinois.  William's brother Isaac was a farm hand in the same county, on another farm, and their father Noris, was living two counties south, in Christian County.  William's oldest brother, Benjamin, and  his family were living in Missouri in 1860. 

By early 1862 the William Fleming family has moved to Mulberry Grove, Bond County, Illinois.  Their  second son, Amos Siegal Lincoln Fleming was born there on May 1, 1862.

And so, genealogically, that brings our story up to the summer 150 years ago.  My great grandfather, was the next son born to William and Nancy, but that wasn't until  after the Civil War - August 26, 1866 in Mulberry Grove, Bond County, Illinois.  Soon after that the family migrated to Kansas and then homesteaded in Nebraska.