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Aaron
Fleener (Samuel, Mary Ann) was born on
March 30, 1807 in Sullivan County, Tennessee, RE14, HA32. In
the 1910 census, his daughter, Eliza, stated that her father was born in
Virginia. He first married Mary Ann Weddle on October 8, 1829 in Monroe County,
Indiana RE14, IN6, HA32. Mary
Ann Weddle was born on February 3, 1808 HA32 and
died sometime between 1845 and 1848 in Brown County, Indiana RE14, HA32.
With Mary Ann, he
was the father of Samuel T., Mary Ellen, Lucinda, Sarah, James Addison, Jacob,
John Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, and Rosana Fleener. The 1850 census
recorded nine of his children who were all born in Indiana; the youngest, Nancy
J., was eleven months old and was his first daughter with Frances.
Samuel T. Fleener was born about 1831 UN10, HA32
in Indiana HA32 and he married Mary Hendrickson on
November 3, 1850 in Monroe County, Indiana IN22, HA32. He resided in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana in June
1863 and was thirty-two years old as of July 1, 1863 US3. Mary Ellen Fleener was born about 1832 RE14 and may have been the Mary E. Fleenor who married Jeremiah
Richardson on August 25, 1848 in Brown County, Indiana IN21. She allegedly died in 1875 RE14. Lucinda Fleener was born about 1834 UN10, HA32. She was probably the woman named Lucinda Hendrickson who in 1860
was twenty-six with three young children who resided with Aaron and Frances
Fleener in Jackson, Brown County, Indiana UN11. Lucinda Hendrickson was buried in the same cemetery as Aaron
Fleener, Mary Ann (Weddle) Fleener, and Frances G. (Waggoner) Fleener RE13.
Sarah (Fleener) Weddle was born on February 22, 1836 IN20, HA32 in Brown County, Indiana to Aaron
Fleener and Mary “Weddel” IN20, and she married McCallen
G. Weddel on December 23, 1852 in Brown County,
Indiana IN21 (or McCallum Green Weddle on November
23, 1852 HA32). She died at the age of sixty-six on
January 20, 1903 IN20,
HA32 in Jackson,
Brown County, Indiana from asthma and “Catorrhal
[catarrhal] Pneumonia” IN20,
which is bronchopneumonia. Her death certificate stated that her husband’s name
was “M.G. Weddle” IN20.
James Addison Fleener was born on January 27, 1837 in Indiana to Aaron Fleener
IN20, HA32, and he married Nancy McLary on May 5, 1859 in Brown County, Indiana IN21, HA32. He died at age seventy-six on March 6,
1913 IN20, HA32 in Jackson Township, Brown County,
Indiana from cerebral softening, with cerebral apoplexy as a contributing
factor to his death IN20.
His death certificate stated that his wife’s name was Nancy IN20.
Jacob Fleener was born about 1840 UN10, HA32. Jacob married Elizabeth Richardson on
February 12, 1863 HA32. He
was probably the same Jacob N. Fleener who resided in Jackson Township, Brown
County, Indiana in June 1863 and was thirty-one years old as of July 1, 1863,
for this Jacob was listed with other Fleener men who were likely his brothers:
Samuel T. and Andrew J. Fleener US3.
John M.V.B. (John Martin Van Buren Fleener RE14, HA32) was born about 1842 UN10 or in 1841 HA32. John M.V. Fleener, the son of Aaron Fleener, was born on June
12, 1841 in Indiana IN20. He
and Dorcas Taylor were married on February 24, 1863 IN21, HA32 by Daniel D. Griffin, Minister of the
Gospel in Brown County, Indiana IN21. He died of paralysis at the age of seventy-seven on January 3,
1919 in Brooklyn, Morgan County, Indiana IN20. According to Frank Fleener of Martinsville, who was the son of
John Martin Van Buren Fleener, his mother died on
February 26, 1918 at the age of seventy-six HA32.
Andrew J. (Andrew Jackson Fleener RE14, HA32) was born about 1844 UN10, HA32. Andrew J. Fleener resided in Jackson Township, Brown County,
Indiana in June 1863 and was twenty years old as of July 1, 1863 US3. Andrew J. Fleener was born on April
10, 1843 in Brown County, Indiana to “Aron Fleener” who was born in Virginia
and a mother whose maiden name was “Weddle” IN20. Andrew J. Fleener married Eliza Jane Brock on December 25,
1864 IN6, HA32. Andrew died at age sixty-one from a
gunshot wound to the head on November 15, 1904 in Washington Township, Brown
County, Indiana IN20. At the time of his death, his wife was
Eliza J. Fleener IN20.
Rosannah/Rosana Fleener was born about 1845 UN10, UN11, HA32 in Brown County Indiana RE14. Rosana
(Fleener) McClung was born on April 13, 1845 in Indiana to “Aron” Fleener
and “Joana Wedel” IN20. She
was said to have married William Gilmore on November 4, 1866 in Monroe County,
Indiana RE14. She may have been thirty-four-year-old
Rosa Gilmore who was born in Indiana and was enumerated in the 1880 US Census
in Cawker, Mitchell County, Kansas with her husband, William Gilmore and their
four daughters and one son: Olive, who was twelve, Melissa, eleven, Lida, six, Evaline, four, and Leslie, who was nine months
old UN13. Her four daughters were born in
Indiana, but Leslie was born in Kansas UN13. Five years later the 1885 Kansas State Census recorded five
members of the Gilmore family who resided in Downs, Osborne County, Kansas,
which is approximately six miles west of Cawker: R.A. Gilmore, a forty-year-old
woman, Jennie, who was sixteen, Lida, eleven, Eva,
who was eight, and John Gilmore, who was five. The death record for John L.
Gilmore stated that he was born on August 29, 1879 to William Gilmore and
Roseann Fleaner IL2.
Rosanna Gilmore and Charles McClung were married by James R. Moody, Minister of
the Gospel on March 31, 1896 in Morgan County, Indiana IN21. At the time of her death on June 25,
1914, she was married to Charles McClung IN20. Rosana died at age of sixty-nine in Wayne Township, Owen
County, Indiana from cancer of the stomach and liver IN20.
Aaron Fleener and
Michael Fleener were among the twelve “hands” who lived near or along the
“Jackson’s Licks & Martinsville road” who were to
report to the newly appointed superintendent, William Davidson, in 1836 GO10. This group of men appear to have been
tasked with extending the road northward to Bear Creek GO10. According to the Johnson County,
Indiana Record Book AA, page 61 and Probate Order Book B, page 11, Aaron
Fleenor was appointed the administrator of the estate of George B. Campbell on
October 26, 1836, and Samuel Fleenor and Thomas Walker were named as his
securities HO25. Aaron Fleener, Jacob Fleener, Milton
Fleener, Frederick Fleener, Jackson Fleener, and Abraham Fleener were mentioned
in a list of men who paid a poll tax in 1848 GO10.
Aaron Fleener married
Frances G. Waggoner on July 3, 1848 in Johnson County, Indiana IN22, TR6, RI12, RE14, SH6. He purchased three parcels of land of forty
acres apiece in Brown County, Indiana on October 21, 1834, September 16, 1835,
and May 10, 1848 GE4. On the same day, May 10, a man whose
name was typed in the General Land Office Records as “Aaron Flunor”,
was certainly Aaron Fleener, as not only was his handwritten surname on the
actual record fairly clear as “Fleenor”, but the two parcels of forty acres,
both purchased on May 10, were adjacent to each other GE4. He bought two separate parcels of forty
acres apiece in Brown County on November 1, 1849, and then thirty-two acres of
land in Monroe County, Indiana on April 15, 1853 GE4. Monroe County is adjacent to Jackson
Township, Brown County. By 1849, Aaron owned one quarter of the land in Section
36 of Brown County BO15, but
a great deal of these parcels of land are now underwater, as Bean Blossom
Creek, which likely provided his source of water for irrigation purposes, was
dammed in the 1950s to create Lake Lemon SC3.
Aaron Fleener,
father of Eliza Catherine, was probably not the Aaron Fleener who served as a private
in Company G of the 27th Indiana
Infantry in the Civil War CI3. This particular Aaron Fleener, of Morgan County, Indiana,
enlisted on September 12, 1861 and was discharged on September 1, 1864 at
Indianapolis AM3. Our Aaron Fleener was not associated
with Morgan County, and not only would he have been an advanced age at the time
of the Civil War, but his very death was said to have occurred before the date
of discharge.
Aaron may have died
in January 1863 in Brown County, Indiana, and was said to have been buried on
his farm with an unmarked gravestone RE14.
The family cemetery, according to Kenneth and Helen Reeve, is situated near Possom Trot Road, almost half of a mile north of North
Shore Drive, and 400 feet east of the road, in the southwest quarter of the
southeast quarter of Section 25, in Jackson Township RE14, RE13. His estate inventory was dated March 30,
1863 RE14, but his probate documents may have been
burned in a courthouse fire in November 1873 RE12. Francis G. Fleener became the guardian
for Aaron’s minor heirs, but in October 1866, their guardianship was
transferred to Samuel T. Fleener RE12.
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1840
US Census: lived in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana.
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1850
US Census: lived in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana.
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1860
US Census: lived in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana.
Frances G. Waggoner (Burgess, Nancy) was born on October 15, 1826 in Franklin, Indiana to Burgess and
Nancy (Shipp) Waggoner RE14, SH6, TR6.
She was born in 1826 in Indiana UN10, UN11 or about 1827 in Indiana UN13.
She was the mother of Nancy Jane, Eliza Catherine, Simon Peter Calvin, Martha
Elizabeth, Amanda C., and Samantha E. Fleener.
Nancy J. (Nancy
Jane RE14) was born about 1848 UN11 or 1849 UN10, HA32 in Indiana UN10, UN11. Nancy Fleener was recorded in at least four instances in Marriage Record 2 Dec 1858 – Sep 1874 for
Brown County, Indiana, but because these marriage records did not state the
names of the parents of the bride or groom, it is not possible to determine if
any of these brides were the daughter of Aaron and Frances Fleener IN21. All of these
weddings occurred in 1866. Nancy Fleener and W.W. Norman married on February
25, 1866, Nancy J. Fleener married James A. Weddle on May 27, 1866, Nancy J.
Fleener married Temple S. Davis on September 6, 1866, and Nancy Jane Fleener
married William P. Spriggs on December 20, 1866 IN21. Further,
in nearby Washington County, Indiana there were at least three brides who may
have been the daughter of Aaron and Frances, but these marriage records also
did not include the parents’ names: Nancy Fleener married Peter Huckleberry on
January 28, 1869, Nancy Fleenor married Francis M. Smith on February 12, 1869,
and Nancy Fleenor and Joseph C. Preston applied for a marriage license on
September 22, 1866 IN21.
She
was not the Nancy Fleener who married W.W. Norman, because this Nancy’s Morgan
County, Indiana death certificate dated June 3, 1925 stated that she was the
wife of Wallace Norman, but her parents were Fred Fleener and Anglline Kelly. She
was not the Nancy Jane Fleener who married William P. Spriggs, for this Nancy’s
Monroe County, Indiana death certificate dated August 28, 1918 stated that she
was the wife of William P. Spriggs, but her parents were Abraham Fleener and
Sarah Jane Alexander. She was not the Nancy J. Fleener who married Temple S.
Davis, because Nancy Jane Davis’ Monroe County, Indiana death certificate dated
November 3, 1918 stated that she was the wife of Temple Stuart Davis and the
daughter of Jack Fleener and Polley Hensley. She was probably not the Nancy
Fleener who married Peter Huckleberry, because this Nancy’s Washington County,
Indiana death certificate dated December 23, 1920 stated that she was a widow
whose parents were George W. Fleener and Carsline (or Caroline) Western.
Eliza
Catherine Fleener was born in February 1851 in Indiana UN14. Simon P.C. (Simon Peter
Calvin RE14) was born about 1852 UN11. The White County, Indiana death certificate for “Simmon
Calvon” Fleener stated that he was born on December 4, 1852 in Brown County,
Indiana to a father whose surname was Fleener and a mother named Frances IN20. Simon
C. Fleener married Fanny M. Sedam or Fanny Mae Sedam in Johnson County, Indiana on August 6, 1874 RI13, RE14. Fannie Marie (Seadam) Fleener was married to Simon Fleener
at the time of her death on October 20, 1911 IN20. Simon
died as a widower at age fifty-nine on March 2, 1912 in Honey Creek Township,
White County, Indiana from apoplexy with and heart disease as a contributing
factor IN20. Martha (Martha Elizabeth RE14) was born about 1857 UN11. She
may have been the Martha E. Fleener who married James McCoy on May 1, 1889 in
Brown County, Indiana RE29. Amanda C. Fleener was
born in 1859 UN11. Amanda
Fleener of Hume, Edgar County, Illinois, the daughter of Aaron Fleener and Franchs… Wagnor, age twenty,
married Preston Cox in Hume, Edgar County, Illinois on or after December 28,
1880, but before January 7, 1881 ED7.
Amanda stated that she was born in Brown County, Indiana ED7. Samantha E. (Fleener)
Richards, the daughter of Aaron Fleener and Francis Wagoner, was born on
November 8, 1862 in Indiana IL2;
her marriage record indicated that she was born in Brown County, Indiana ED7. Samantha, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Aron Fleener and
Francis Wagner, and William A. Richard, were married on December 17, 1879 in
Hume, Edgar County, Illinois by J.H. Williams ED7. She died at age fifty-seven on July 29, 1920 in Casey, Clark
County, Illinois IL2.
After the death of
Aaron, Frances remarried three times. The marriage of William Purdy and Frances
G. “Fleenor” (a different
record stated “F G Fleener” ED7) took
place on June 6, 1870 in Edgar County, Illinois ED7, IL1, IL5. G.W. Rives, Justice of the Peace, certified the marriage ED7. Two years later, Frances G. Purdy and Norman Reed were married by G.W. Burns, Justice of the Peace, on November 26, 1872 in Morgan County,
Indiana IN21. Norman Reed probably died sometime
between 1872 and 1880, because in 1880, Frances was enumerated as “Fleener,
Francis” with her daughters, Martha, born about 1858, and Amanda, born about
1860. This census enumerator recorded that the birth location of the father of
Martha and Amanda was Virginia. Her fourth marriage, to Samuel Richard (or
Richards), a seventy-one-year-old farmer from Ohio, occurred on July 24, 1890
in Brown County, Indiana IN7. The Record of Returns of Marriages for Brown
County recorded their correct marriage date of July 24, 1890, which was after
their license was issued on July 19, but Volume
4 of the marriages of Brown County stated that they were married on July 4,
before their license was issued to them IN7.
The Record of Returns of Marriages
described Frances as “Frances G. Reed”, whose maiden name was Wagoner, the
daughter of “Bergus Wagner”, who was then sixty-four
years old IN7. This record stated that she had been
married four times, but it may have included the most recent marriage in this
count IN7. Frances was said to have been buried in
the same family cemetery as Aaron and Mary Ann RE14, RE13. A representative
from the Brown County Department of Health stated that a death record for
Frances (Waggoner) Richards was not filed in that county.
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1850 US Census: lived in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana.
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1860
US Census: lived in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana.
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1880
US Census: lived in Hume Village, Young America Township, Edgar County,
Illinois.