Levi E. Fleming

1848-1934 · Lynn MA

Born 1848, Lynx, Adams County, Ohio

Died 1934

Father: Levi Fleming

Mother: Tresa Young

Children include Mary

Levi E. Fleming was born on 26 May 1848 near Lynx, a village in the east of Adams County, Ohio. His parents were Levi Fleming and Tresa Young, both born in Ohio. He named them on his marriage record of 1904 and they are named on his death certificate.

On 20 February 1870 he married Malissa Salisbury, who was a year younger than he was. They had seven children: Addie, Hattie, Clay, Tillie, Nora, Jessie and Charley. Mary Adelina, called Addie, the eldest, was born on 25 January 1871 at West Union and married George Coleman Bayless. William Clay Henry Fleming followed in 1874. By 1934 the children were spread from West Union and Stout in Ohio to Youngstown, Steubenville, Pittsburgh and West Virginia.

Malissa died on 2 October 1896, aged forty-seven. On 17 August 1904, in Brown County, Levi married again. His second wife was Sarah M. Spears. She died about 1924.

Levi was a farmer. He died in Liberty Township on 13 February 1934, aged eighty-five, a widower, after a long decline. He was buried three days later in East Liberty Cemetery near Lynx. He lies beside Malissa under a gray granite stone cut FLEMING, with roses at its corners.

Parents

Levi Fleming

Tresa Young

Children

Mary Adelina Fleming 1871-1950

Sources

Ohio Department of Health, certificate of death, Mary Adeline Bayless, 1950 (Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953, FamilySearch ark 1:1:XXM3-RP1).

Ohio Department of Health, certificate of death, Levi Fleming, 1934 (Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953, FamilySearch).

Ohio death certificate of Levi Fleming, 1934 (Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953, FamilySearch); Ohio death certificate of Mary Adeline Bayless, 1950 (FamilySearch ark 1:1:XXM3-RP1); Find a Grave memorials 42154815 and 78704476.

Typed obituary of Levi E. Fleming, 1934, from the papers of Owen and Minnie McCarty; photograph on Find a Grave memorial 42154815, added by Tabatha McCarty Mack, 2021.

Brown County, Ohio, marriage records, 1904 (Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, FamilySearch).

Find a Grave, memorial 42154815, photograph added by Cemetery Photographer, 2012.

Ohio death certificate of Levi Fleming, 1934, file 7012 (Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953, FamilySearch ark 1:1:X6QG-5FX); typed obituary, 1934, photographed from the papers of Owen and Minnie McCarty (Find a Grave memorial 42154815); Brown County, Ohio, marriage of Levi Fleming and Sarah M. Spears, 17 August 1904 (Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, FamilySearch); Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003, Jesse Levi Fleming (ark 1:1:Q236-Z47G); Find a Grave memorials 42154815 and 78704476 and their photographs.

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