Genealogical and personal history of the upper Monongahela valley, West Virginia (1912), Vol. 2, pp. 412 and 413: [(III) Benjamin, son of Benoni and Mary (Stephenson) Fleming, was born in Middletown (now Fairmont), West Virginia, September 17, 1806. When fifteen years old he went to Zanesville, Ohio, to learn the hatter's trade and completed it at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Changing his plans, somewhat, he took passage on a flatboat down to New Orleans and thence up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, engaging in hunting and trapping with the famous scout, "Kit" Carson. He returned to Marion county. West Virginia, however, in 1828, and December II of that year married Amanda Fleming, born January 28, 1806, after which he settled down and erected the building on the corner of Main and Jefferson streets, where he engaged in the manufacture of hats, continuing the remainder of his days. He also engaged in store boats down the river Ohio to the ocean. During the construction of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad he supplied meats for the laborers, frequently killing six hundred hogs at one time. He was a member of the legislature of West Virginia, In 1867-68, and served as the first justice of the peace under the new state organization. He was president of the board of trustees in Fairmont, when known as Middletown. Politically he was first a Whig, then a Republican. He died February 12, 1891. His wife died December 12, 1900. Children: Mary Matilda, born February 14, 1833, died August 14, 1839; Frederick H., married Rachel Manear, was sergeant of Company A, Sixth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry In the union army, died April 27, 1882 ; Edward S., died December 3, 1873; Thurston Worth, see forward.]
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English: ethnic name for someone from Flanders, from Middle English fleming. The word reflects a Norman French form of Old French flamanc ‘Fleming’, from the stem flam- + the ancient Germanic suffix -ing. 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. This surname is also common in south and east Scotland and in Ireland, where it is sometimes found in the Gaelicized form Pléamonn.
German: variant of Flemming , cognate with 1 above.
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