Heinrich Friedrich Richard Fleming

• Name source ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8}
• Sex: M
• Also Known As: Heinrich Flemming
• Also Known As: Henry Fleming, Sr. ^{9 10 11 12 13 14}
• Born: 18 FEB 1839 in Belgard, Pommern, Prussia, Germany ^{15 2 4 5 6 16}
• Died: 15 JAN 1909 in Presque Isle County, Michigan ^{2 4 5 6 17 18}
• Buried:: St. Michael Cemetery, Belknap Twp., Presque Isle, Michigan ²
• Cause of Death: Stomach cancer
• Census 1880: 15 JUN 1880: Belknap Twp., Presque Isle, Michigan; age 41 ¹⁵
• Census 1900: 2 JUN 1900: Belknap Twp., Presque Isle, Michigan; age 61 ¹⁹
• Immigration: 14 MAY 1872: Pomerania to New York ^{18 21 22}
• Occupation: BET. 1880 - 1900: Farmer ^{15 19}
• Residence:: South Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan ²⁰
• Notes:

  From 1880 Federal Census, Presque Isle Co.
  PN LN VN FN Last Name First NameRaceSex Age MB RelationST MM Occup UnEmBL DD ID IN CR S R W POB POB Fa. BOP Mo. Notes
  12 15 144 118 Flemming Henry W M 41 Head M Farmer Prussia Prussia Prussia
  12 16 144 118 Flemming Pauline W F 46 Wife M Keeping House Prussia Prussia Prussia
  12 17 144 118 Flemming August W M 15 Son S At School x Prussia Prussia Prussia
  12 18 144 118 Flemming WilhelmineW F 12 Daugh S At School x Prussia Prussia Prussia
  12 19 144 118 Flemming Auguste W F 10 Daugh S At School x Prussia Prussia Prussia
  12 20 144 118 Flemming Mary W F 8 Daugh S Michigan Prussia Prussia
  12 21 144 118 Flemming Anne W F 6 Daugh S Michigan Prussia Prussia
  12 22 144 118 Flemming Henry W M 4 Son S Michigan Prussia Prussia
  http://members.aol.com/jolmack/1880_census_bbm.htm
  
  A picture of him appeared in the Presque Isle County Advance, July 30, [18]71. Source: Interview with Martha Prell (Primary Enclosure File #48)
  
  On 15 December 1879, he bought 124.60 acres of land from the U.S. government as a land patent. It was the W fractional half of the SE fractional quarter and the SE fractional quarter of the SW fractional quarter of Section 33 in Township 34 North, Range 5 East. (Bureau of Land Management <http://glorecords.blm.gov/>, homestead certificate #663, application #1272.) He apparently bought some additional land in the same Section from the U.S. government through John M. Farland (Presque Isle County land records, book 3, p. 124. Claus Enclosure File #C31)
  
  "They arrived in New York on 14 May 1872 on the ship Madgalene. The ship register (Germans to America, Vol. 27, page 69) lists August, Wilhelmine and a son, Friedrich age 1, but not their daugher, Augusta Friederike. (This is assumed to be a clerical error.) A daughter, Mary, was born in Detroit, Michigan, on May 20, 1872, just one day after the family arrived in Detroit - and just 5 days after arriving in New York from Germany. Between 1872 and 1874 they traveled by ship to Rogers City, Michigan. They began a homestead (farming) in Belknap Township, at a location called South Rogers Corner."
  Source: Fleming Descendants, by Walt Hempel
  
  "(The following account was written by Iva Mielke Schalk for Mona Pelkey in 1989.)
  "On May 19, 1872, Henry Sr, and [wife] Caroline [Keske] Flemming and children Minnie, Gusta, Anna, and August arrived in Detroit from Germany. The next day, on the 20th, their daughter Mary was born. They arrived in America on the ship Madgeline on May 14, 1872.
  "Henry and his family came North and settled in Belknap [Twp.], where they cleared land and built their home. Henry, Jr., was born on this farm. Lumbering was the main income at that time. A [railroad] track, running about 1 1/4 miles west of Metz [called South Rogers] was built to get the large logs and take them elsewhere to make into lumber. [This place was within a quarter of a mile from their farm.]
  "Henry also had other jobs. One he had was driving the mail coach from Metz to Rogers City before the train went to Rogers City.
  "Henry was a guy who liked to play cards and taught the men folks in the area a card game he brought with him from Germany - Spitzer. He even went to Hawks, Rogers City, and Alpena to teach the game to anyone who wanted to learn it.
  "Henry died a young man [age 70] from cancer [in 1909]. Henry, Jr., took over the family farm. In 1916 Henry, Jr., and family moved to Rogers City. His sister Mary, who was married and living in Alpena with her husband Fred Mielke and their family, just would not let the family farm go out of the family. So their family moved and took over that farm then."
  Source: Fleming Descendants, by Walt Hempel
  
  "[He] began a farm by home steading in Belknap Township, just a short ways down the road from a rail road logging station where logs were shipped by rail to other parts of the state and country. This location was known as the South Rogers corner. The railroad tracks were later extended east and north of South Rogers and went through the center of the Flemming farm."
  Source: Fleming Descendants, by Walt Hempel
  
  last_name,first_name,title,age,Numeric Date,information,place,Original Character Dates,decade
  FLEMING Sr.,Henry,,70,5-Jan-09,,Presque Isle,1/5/09,1900
  Source: Alpena Death Records <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eminemgs/death_records.htm>

• Married: ABT. 1864 ²³

1. August Heinrich Friedrich Fleming, b. 14 SEP 1865 in Belgard, Pommern, Prussia, Germany
2. Wilhelmine Augusta Friederike Fleming, b. 10 SEP 1866 in Germany
3. Augusta Friederike Anna Fleming, b. 9 NOV 1869 in Prussia, Germany
4. Mary Fleming, b. 20 MAY 1872 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
5. Anna Marie Magdalene Fleming, b. 24 FEB 1874 in Belknap Twp., Presque Isle, Michigan
6. Heinrich Friedrich Richard Flemming II, b. 20 JUL 1876 in Belknap Twp., Presque Isle, Michigan

1. Title: Interview with Martha Prell, July 1973?
   Author: Anita Hahn
   Publication: Hawks, MI, (July 1973?)
   Comment/Location: Primary enclosure file
   Call Number: #36, 48
   Media: Interview
2. Title: Cemetery & Church Records, St. Michael Lutheran Church, Belknap (Extracts)
   Publication: Transcribed July 1973?
   Comment/Location: Primary enclosure file
   Call Number: #38, 39
   Media: Manuscript
3. Title: Letter from Velma Claus, Jan 8, 1973
   Comment/Location: Primary enclosure file
   Call Number: #57
   Media: Letter
4. Title: Fleming Family Tree
   Author: Velma Claus
   Publication: Nov. 28-29, 1977
   Comment/Location: All charts are based on information from Betty Rusch,.Charts G & H are also based on Paul Sellke's obituary in the Presque Isle Advance (Enclosure #C5b). Chart B is also based on information from Laura (Hoeft) Kunner.
   Comment/Location: Claus enclosure file
   Call Number: #C5d
   Media: Manuscript
5. Title: Fleming/Hein/Danbert Family Trees
   Author: Harvey & Anita Hahn
   Comment/Location: Claus enclosure file
   Call Number: #C10-11
   Media: Manuscript
6. Title: Fleming/Danbert Family Tree
   Author: Anita Hahn
   Comment/Location: Claus enclosure file
   Call Number: #C30
   Media: Manuscript
7. Title: Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925
   Comment/Location: Includes images of the actual pages in the marriage registers. Some or all of the data is also indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Data also available as LDS microfilms 2342448-2342523 and 2342663-2342773
   Comment/Location: Very good, though names are not always spelled correctly.
   Comment/Location: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
   Media: Electronic
   Page/Cite: Alpena, 1887, p. 59, no. 43
   Text: "Augustes [sic] Fleming" [record for daughter Wilhelmine]
8. Title: Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925
   Comment/Location: Includes images of the actual pages in the marriage registers. Some or all of the data is also indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Data also available as LDS microfilms 2342448-2342523 and 2342663-2342773
   Comment/Location: Very good, though names are not always spelled correctly.
   Comment/Location: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
   Media: Electronic
   Page/Cite: Presque Isle, 1898, p. 56, no. 355
   Text: "Henry Fleming" [record for daughter Augusta]
9. Title: Letter from William Fleming
   Publication: March 11, 1973
   Comment/Location: Primary enclosure file
   Call Number: #54
   Media: Letter
   Text: "Henry Fleming, Sr."
10. Title: Alpena Death Records
    Author: Northeasth Michigan Genealogical Society
    Comment/Location: Indexed from various Alpena newspapers
    Comment/Location: http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eminemgs/death_records.htm
    Media: Electronic
    Text: "Fleming Sr., Henry"
11. Title: Census - 1900 US Federal; MI; Presque Isle Belknap
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 147, Sheet 1B; entry 16 16
    Text: "Flemming, Henry"
12. Title: Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925
    Comment/Location: Includes images of the actual pages in the marriage registers. Some or all of the data is also indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Data also available as LDS microfilms 2342448-2342523 and 2342663-2342773
    Comment/Location: Very good, though names are not always spelled correctly.
    Comment/Location: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
    Media: Electronic
    Page/Cite: Alpena, 1890, p. 40, no. 383; Alpena, 1892, p. 50, no. 667
    Text: "Henry Fleming" [records for son August and daughter Mary]
13. Title: Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925
    Comment/Location: Includes images of the actual pages in the marriage registers. Some or all of the data is also indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Data also available as LDS microfilms 2342448-2342523 and 2342663-2342773
    Comment/Location: Very good, though names are not always spelled correctly.
    Comment/Location: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
    Media: Electronic
    Page/Cite: Presque Isle, 1900, p. 59, no. 507
    Text: "Henry Fleming[, Sr.]" [record for son Henry]
14. Title: Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925
    Comment/Location: Includes images of the actual pages in the marriage registers. Some or all of the data is also indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Data also available as LDS microfilms 2342448-2342523 and 2342663-2342773
    Comment/Location: Very good, though names are not always spelled correctly.
    Comment/Location: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
    Media: Electronic
    Page/Cite: Presque Isle, 1900, p. 66, no. 535
    Text: "Henry Flemming" [record for daughter Anna]
15. Title: Census - 1880 US Federal; MI; Presque Isle Belknap, Bismarck, Metz
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED #280, Sheet #579D, p. 12; entry 144 118
16. Title: Census - 1900 US Federal; MI; Presque Isle Belknap
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 147, Sheet 1B; entry 16 16
    Text: "Feb. 1839, age 61, Germany"
17. Title: Alpena Death Records
    Author: Northeasth Michigan Genealogical Society
    Comment/Location: Indexed from various Alpena newspapers
    Comment/Location: http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eminemgs/death_records.htm
    Media: Electronic
    Text: "1/5/09, Presque Isle"
18. Title: Fleming Descendants
    Author: Walt Hempel <Wdhempel@aol.com>
    Publication: As of Feb. 24, 2002
    Comment/Location: Updated version received Aug. 8 2002.
    a.k.a. "First Four Generations of Flemmings in Presque Isle County, Michigan" (5 Dec 06):
    <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~confido/flemming3.html> and
    <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~confido/flemming.html>
    Comment/Location: Received via e-mail
    Media: Electronic
19. Title: Census - 1900 US Federal; MI; Presque Isle Belknap
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 147, Sheet 1B; entry 16 16
20. Title: Letter from William Fleming
    Publication: March 11, 1973
    Comment/Location: Primary enclosure file
    Call Number: #54
    Media: Letter
21. Title: Germans to America
    Comment/Location: Arlington Heights Memorial Library
    Media: Book
    Page/Cite: Vol. 27, p. 69
    Text: "5/14/1872, Pomerania to New York"
22. Title: Census - 1900 US Federal; MI; Presque Isle Belknap
    Media: Census
    Page/Cite: ED 147, Sheet 1B; entry 16 16
    Text: "1874" [sic]
23. Title: Census - 1900 US Federal; MI; Presque Isle Belknap
    Media: Census
    Page: ED 147, Sheet 1B; entry 16 16
    Text: "35 [years ago]"