James M. Fleming

    James M. Fleming (deceased) was born in Preble County, Ohio, June 30, 1819, and was a son of Peter and Sarah (Caughey) Fleming. James M. Fleming received a very limited education, but by study and reading he became exceedingly well informed, particularly in politics and religion. When a lad, he went to live with his brother, Thompson, and when of sufficient age began to learn the trade of tanning, at which he worked for his brother until he was twenty-four years old.

    He was married November 17, 1842, to Miss Sarah C. Hyde, a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, daughter of Obadiah and Sophia Hyde. To this union were born five children -Ariadne J., Winfield S., Thomas C., Anne E. and Laura L.

     In 1843, Mr. Fleming came to old Lebanon and engaged in the tanning business; thence moved to Attica in 1846, and conducted a tannery some years; and thence to this township (Pike), where he purchased eighty acres, afterward living in Prairie Township, and in Kansas in 1878, where he purchased a claim and died at the home of his daughter, near Spearville, March 7, 1879. Mr. Fleming was a member of the Masonic body; in politics, a Republican, and an honored and enterprising citizen. Mrs. Fleming is a member of the Universalist Church.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.