Daughter of George Lyall Fleming and Jessie Grant (Watt) Fleming. Parents and brother Dr. James Watt Fleming, and she immigrated from Scotland. Brother George Fleming was born in Canada in 1857 (per multiple census records). Younger brother Leon Millard (Dr. Leon M Fleming in Chicago) was born in Brooklyn, NY. Father, George L Fleming was a US citizen and a cigar merchant by the time of the 1870 census. Jessie Ann Fleming and her husband, Eugene Banvard, lived in Brooklyn, and in Watertown, SD, for about two decades. Their house was said to be the first frame house in Watertown, SD, and was visited by local Indians when she has home without her husband. The house was gleefully toured by a descendant in 1984. The house they owned before South Dakota was on 217 Carroll (Street?) in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn city directory in 1895 provides the address of 11 Cooper (Street). She lived her senior years with her daughter, Ada de Roza, in Freeport, Long Island, and with her daughter, Adele Banvard in East Orange, NJ. Place of death is listed as Rockville Center, NY. She was also survived by son James Goodnow Banvard. Her son, Edward George Banvard, was a World War II casualty of the SS Pruss being torpedoed in the Pacific Ocean by the Japanese in December of 1942. She buried a 3 year old daughter in Watertown, SD.
Gravestone is that of her sister-in-law's, Adele Bigelow Fleming, on the family plot. Family lore states the deed to Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, where her husband who passed in 1903 is buried in an unmarked grave, was unavailable at the time of her passing.
Gravestone is that of her sister-in-law's, Adele Bigelow Fleming, on the family plot. Family lore states the deed to Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, where her husband who passed in 1903 is buried in an unmarked grave, was unavailable at the time of her passing.
Daughter of George Lyall Fleming and Jessie Grant (Watt) Fleming. Parents and brother Dr. James Watt Fleming, and she immigrated from Scotland. Brother George Fleming was born in Canada in 1857 (per multiple census records). Younger brother Leon Millard (Dr. Leon M Fleming in Chicago) was born in Brooklyn, NY. Father, George L Fleming was a US citizen and a cigar merchant by the time of the 1870 census. Jessie Ann Fleming and her husband, Eugene Banvard, lived in Brooklyn, and in Watertown, SD, for about two decades. Their house was said to be the first frame house in Watertown, SD, and was visited by local Indians when she has home without her husband. The house was gleefully toured by a descendant in 1984. The house they owned before South Dakota was on 217 Carroll (Street?) in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn city directory in 1895 provides the address of 11 Cooper (Street). She lived her senior years with her daughter, Ada de Roza, in Freeport, Long Island, and with her daughter, Adele Banvard in East Orange, NJ. Place of death is listed as Rockville Center, NY. She was also survived by son James Goodnow Banvard. Her son, Edward George Banvard, was a World War II casualty of the SS Pruss being torpedoed in the Pacific Ocean by the Japanese in December of 1942. She buried a 3 year old daughter in Watertown, SD.
Gravestone is that of her sister-in-law's, Adele Bigelow Fleming, on the family plot. Family lore states the deed to Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, where her husband who passed in 1903 is buried in an unmarked grave, was unavailable at the time of her passing.
Gravestone is that of her sister-in-law's, Adele Bigelow Fleming, on the family plot. Family lore states the deed to Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, where her husband who passed in 1903 is buried in an unmarked grave, was unavailable at the time of her passing.
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