Benjamin Fleming

17 September 1806–12 February 1891 (Age 84)
Middletown, Marion, West Virginia, United States

The Life of Benjamin

When Benjamin Fleming was born on 17 September 1806, in Middletown, Marion, West Virginia, United States, his father, Benoni Fleming, was 38 and his mother, Mary Stephenson, was 36. He married Amanda M. Fleming in 1828, in Monongalia, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Marion, Virginia, United States in 1850 and District 4, Mason, Virginia, United States in 1860. He died on 12 February 1891, in Fairmont, Marion, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Fairmont, Marion, West Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Benjamin Fleming
1806–1891
Amanda M. Fleming
1806–1890
Marriage: 1828
Frederick H. Fleming
1823–
Mary Malinda Fleming
1829–1839
Frederick Harmer Fleming
1835–1882
Edward Stephenson Fleming
1836–1873
Thurston Worth Fleming
1846–1917

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
1828
Monongalia, West Virginia, United States
children

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Parents and Siblings

siblings

(19)

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World Events (8)

1808

Age 2

Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Monumental Church Built

Age 6

The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Age 24

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

Name Meaning

1 English: ethnic name for someone from Flanders. In the Middle Ages there was considerable commercial intercourse between England and the Netherlands, particularly in the wool trade, and many Flemish weavers and dyers settled in England. The word reflects a Norman French form of Old French flamenc, from the stem flam- + the Germanic suffix -ing. The surname is also common in south and east Scotland and in Ireland, where it is sometimes found in the Gaelicized form Pléimeann.2 German: variant of Flemming , cognate with 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Sources (3)

  • Benjamin Fleming, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Benjamin Fleming, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Benjamin Fleming, "United States Census, 1870"

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