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Samuel Fleener (Jacob) was born on August 16, 1780 in
Washington County, Virginia RE14, US4, HA32.
The identity of his father was revealed in a record of a deed from Jacob to
Samuel on November 25, 1808, which has been transcribed in Jacob’s biography BL5. In 1791, he and his parents moved from
Virginia to Sullivan County, Tennessee, and he married Mary Ann Watson HA32, RE14 circa 1800 HA32 or 1801 RE14. The 1800 and 1810 Federal Census records
were lost for all of the counties in Tennessee except
for Rutherford County in 1810 TH33.
Allegedly, Samuel,
Mary Ann, and their first four children who had been born (Andrew, Jacob,
Michael, and Aaron) moved to Cove Creek in Scott County, Virginia HA32. Cove Creek is on the north fork of the
Holston River HA32. Their next three children (Katherine,
Mary Ann, and Samuel Jr.) were said to have been born in Scott County, Virginia
HA32. They were said to have moved in about
1815 or 1816 with their seven children to Wayne County, Kentucky, where two
more children were born HA32, RE14.
They may have moved in 1823 to Brown County, Indiana HA32, RE14, but Samuel and Mary were said to have
been from Wayne County, Kentucky in a deed to William Murphy for 122 acres of
land in Wayne County, which was dated November 8, 1826 WA37:
This
Indenture made this 8th Day
of November in the Year of Our Lord 1826 Between Samuel Fleener and Mary
Fleener his wife of the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky of the one part
and William Murphy of said County & State of the other part. Witnesseth that said Samuel Fleener and Mary his wife for
and in consideration of 140 dollars Current money of Kentucky to them in hand
paid as before the sealing and delivery of these presents the Receipt of which
is hereby acknowledged have and by these presents do grant bargain and sell
enfeoff & confirm unto the said William Murphy and his heirs forever a
certain tract or parcel of land in the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky
containing One hundred and twenty two acres more or less being a part of a
tract of land granted to John Young by the Commonwealth of Kentucky by pattent bearing date the Twelfth day of May 1822 and
bounded as followeth Beginning at a poplar &
white oak running S45° West 176 poles to a black oak & dogwood thence S40 E
92 poles to a gum and dogwood a conditional between John Young & said
Samuel Fleener thence North 55° E 164 poles to a stake on the pattent line of the Original line of the pattent thence to the Beginning on the pattent
line And the said Samuel Fleener & Mary his wife by these presents do
warrant and defend the aforesaid tract of land with all its appurtenances unto
him the said William Murphy and his heirs forever… In Testimoney
whereof the said Samuel Fleener has hereunto Subscribed his Name and Affixed
his seal the day and Year first Written
Test
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March 9th
1827
He
may have been the Samuel “Flenor” who purchased land
in Johnson County, Indiana on July 22, 1829 HO26, PR18. This
may have been a reference to the land patent issued on November 15, 1830 to Samuel
“Flenor”, who purchased 60.21 acres in the west half
of the southwest quarter of Section 18 in Township 11 North in Johnson County,
Indiana GE4. Samuel Fleener and James G. Crocker were witnesses to the will
of Thomas Barnes, dated May 25, 1832, which was recorded in Johnson County,
Indiana HO27. A man named Samuel Fleener purchased forty acres of land in Morgan
County, Indiana on March 20, 1837, and then on August 1, 1839, purchased forty
acres of land in Brown County, Indiana GE4. This
parcel was quite undulating, and Lick Creek ran through his land, in a valley BO15. At this time, Samuel lived about nine miles northeast of his
son, Aaron.
He should have been
listed somewhere in Indiana on the 1840 census, but his name has not yet been
located, nor was his name found during a reading of the census records for the
townships of Hamblin, Jackson, Johnston, Van Buren, and Washington in Brown
County, Indiana. Men with the surname “Fleener” who resided in Jackson, Brown
County, Indiana at the time of the 1840 census were Aarn,
Jacob, and Samuel, who were all between the ages of thirty and thirty-nine, and
Milton, who was between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine UN9.
According to the
1850 census, Samuel was living with three people named Mary Ann, who were his
wife and two girls, Mary Ann Pollard (or Pollarda),
age fifteen, and Mary Ann Fleener, age five. Living next door were two of his
sons, David and Samuel, with their families. Samuel
may have just arrived in Madison County in 1850, because the 1849 Iowa census
listed his sons, but it did not list Samuel and Mary Ann. According to the
1854 Iowa census, only Samuel and Mary Ann were listed in the household. He
died on October 27, 1854 RE14, HA32.
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1820 US Census: lived in Wayne County, Kentucky with one boy
and two girls under ten, two boys and one girl between ten and sixteen, one young
man between sixteen and eighteen, two men between eighteen and twenty-six, and one woman (Mary) who was
between twenty-six and forty-five.
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1850
US Census: lived in Madison County, Iowa.
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1851
Iowa Census: lived in Madison County, Iowa.
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1854
Iowa Census: lived in Madison County, Iowa.
Mary Ann Watson was
said to have been born on March 6, 1782 in North Carolina with the surname of RE14, HA32. The 1850 census record was in agreement
with the birth year of 1782, but indicated that she
was born in Virginia. Mary
Ann Watson may have been related to Elijah Watson; her father-in-law, Jacob
Fleenor, sold a parcel of land in Sullivan County to Elijah Watson on November
21, 1808 HI15. She died in 1856 RE14, HA32.
She
was said to have been the mother of eleven children: Andrew, Jacob, Michael,
Aaron, Katherine, Mary Ann, Samuel Jr., Margaret, Ary,
Simon Peter Cartwright, and David RE14. The
men named Samuel Fleanor and David Fleanor who lived next to Samuel and Mary Ann at the time
of the 1850 census were probably her sons; Samuel’s birth occurred in about
1817 in Virginia, and David was born about 1827 in Indiana UN10. Men with the Fleener surname, or variations thereof, were found
in the 1850 and 1860 census records, and these men may have been Mary Ann’s
sons.
Andrew Fleenor was
born on March 10, 1802 HA32. Jacob Fleener was born about 1802 in Tennessee, and in
1840 and 1850 he lived in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana. Jacob
was born on September 10, 1803 in Sullivan County, Tennessee
and married Hannah Lair on October 10 or 30, 1823, probably in Kentucky HA32. According to his gravestone at the Fleener Cemetery, which is
also known as the Coon Cemetery and the Ritter Cemetery, located in Jackson
Township, Brown County, Indiana, Jacob Fleener died at age sixty-one years,
nine months, and fifteen days on June 25, 1865 ME10, HA32. Hannah died at age sixty-four on
February 11, 1866 ME10, HA32 in
Brown County, Indiana HA32.
Michael Flenor was born
about 1805 in Virginia, and at the time of the 1850 US Census, he lived in
Hensley, Johnson County, Indiana, but he was not found in the 1860 census. He was
born on July 10 or 15, 1805 in Sullivan County, Tennessee and married Elizabeth
Robertson on June 7, 1829 in Monroe County, Indiana HA32. He may have been the same Michael Fleenor who purchased land
in Johnson County, Indiana on July 30, 1832 HO26. Michael
Fleener wrote his will on August 1, 1850, which was witnessed by William
Davenport and C.R. Ragsdale and was recorded on January 28, 1851 in Johnson
County, Indiana HO27. The will mentioned
his wife, Elizabeth HO27.
Michael died in January 1851 in Johnson County, Indiana HA32. According to the Johnson County, Indiana Inventory Record Book A, page 76, he was probably the Michael
“Fleenor” who died sometime before March 10, 1851, when on that date he was
called deceased; his widow was named Elizabeth, and his estate was appraised by
Charles Grimes and Jacob Coleman HO25.
The Johnson County, Indiana Probate Order
Book C, pages 528 and 535, stated that on May 14, 1851, Comma R. Ragsdale
was appointed the administrator of Michael Fleenor’s estate HO25.
Aaron Fleener was
born on March 30, 1807 in Sullivan County, Tennessee and married Mary Ann
Weddle on October 8, 1829 in Monroe County, Indiana HA32. Katherine Fleenor
was born on February 26, 1810 and married Elijah Pollard in 1828 in Monroe
County, Indiana HA32. Mary Ann Fleenor was born on May 30,
1811 HA32.
Samuel Fleaner
or Fleenor was born about 1817 in Virginia, and he lived in Madison County,
Iowa in 1850, but Linn County, Oregon in 1860. He was born on July
2, 1815, perhaps in Scott County, Virginia HA32. He
married Rachel Barnes on May 19, 1836, perhaps in Harrison County (then Davis
County), Missouri HA32. A
Johnson County, Indiana marriage record dated May 16, 1836 between Samuel
Fleener and Rachel Barns may have been the date of their marriage application RI12. After her death on June 27, 1852, which was caused by cholera
which she contracted while on the Oregon Trail, Samuel married Eveline Archer
on March 6, 1853 HA32. According to Samuel
Fleener’s son, David Beckham Fleener (who was born on January 8, 1848), his
family departed from Independence, Missouri in May 1852, but as they traversed
the Platte River area, David’s mother, Rachel, died from cholera and was buried
in that region HA32. Margaret Fleenor was born in April 1818
HA32.
Ary Fleenor was
born in September 1820 and married Allen Hubbard in 1839 in Brown County,
Indiana HA32. Simon Peter Cartwright
Fleenor was born in May 1822 in Wayne County, Kentucky and married Sarah B.
on April 9, 1848 in Marion County, Oregon HA32. Census records indicate that Simon
P.C. Fleener was born about 1822 or 1823 in Kentucky, and he lived in Linn
County, Oregon in 1850, and then Mattole, Humboldt County, California, in 1860.
David Fleenor was
born on May 16, 1825 HA32. David Fleaner was born about 1827 in Indiana, and he lived in
Madison County, Iowa in 1850 and 1860. The death certificate for Simon Peter
Cartwright Fleener stated that he was born on December 13, 1822 in Kentucky, and died on December 5, 1911 in the city of
Blodgett in Benton County, Oregon. Simon’s death certificate recorded that his
father was named Samuel and his mother was named Mary Martin.
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1850
US Census: lived in Madison County, Iowa.