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- Henry Flemming blev født i Holsten med navnet Heinrich og blev i 1852 gift med Elisabeth Pithon (født 1837 i Tyskland). Hun døde 26. juni 1884 i Jackson, Iowa og er også begravet på Preston Cemetery.
"Our subject was born in the grand Duchy of Holstein, Oct. 12, 1826, and is the son of Henry and Maggie (Snolet) Fleming, who were of pure German stock and whose native place was near that of their son. The father was a soldier during the wars of the first Napoleon and at the Battle of Waterloo when the great chieftain was overthrown. He also participated in many other celebrated battles of that time, being in the army a period of seven years. Both he and his excellent wife died in their native Holstein, the father at the age of sixty-five years, and the mother when seventy-five. Their family included eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom Henry was the third son and the fifth child. The father followed shoe-making, and our subject gained a very good idea of this business, although when approaching manhood he worked two years on a farm and later was engaged in building roads. He received a good education in the German tongue and was carefully trained in the doctrines of the Lutheran Church.
Mr. Fleming is the father of nine children, the eldest of whom, a daughter, Mina, is the wife of Henry Gibson, the mother of four children, and lives near Maquoketa. Mary also resides in that vicinity, she married Henry Specht and is the mother of five children. Lena, (Mrs. Willard Miller) living not far from her sisters, is the mother of six children. Henry, Jr., married Miss Emma Serkra, is the father of two children, and resides on the homestead. Harmon married Miss Mary Shrader, is the father of five children, and lives near Maquoketa. Francis married Miss Jane Wasbeck, lives in Lyons, Iowa. Christine died July 6, 1880. Emma is the wife of Nicholas Miller, of Lyons, Iowa, and the mother of one child. Clara is single and at home. The mother of these departed this life June 27, 1884.
Our subject contracted a second marriage on Feb. 27, 1886, with Mrs. Minnie Christine Paulson, a daughter of Peter and Minnie Christianson, a native of Denmark, where she was reared and first married. Of her first union there were born two children - Peter and Amos, who are now living and reside at home. Of her marriage with our subject there is one child, a son - Elmer, born Jan. 31, 1887."
Kilde: Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson County, Iowa", originally published in 1889, by the Chapman Brothers, of Chicago, Illinois
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Slægterne Albøge og Krøigaard
1826 - 1902 (75 år)
