Obituary for Thomas Fleming in the Quincy Daily Herald, April 13, 1923:
--- THOMAS FLEMING, OLD RESIDENT OF MENDON IS DEAD ---
Thomas Fleming, 82 years old, one of the few remaining veterans of the Civil War, with a splendid record of four years' service under the Stars and Stripes during which he spent eleven months in Confederate prisons, died Wednesday morning a 7 o'clock at the Mendon residence of his daughter, Mrs. John Hillman.
Mr. Fleming, in his advanced years suffered much from dizziness, his death being caused by cerebral hemorrhage. A slight hemorrhage which occurred while he slept, a week ago Saturday night, caused a slight paralysis. He threw this off and recovered the use of his voice in a few days and had been about the house up to two days before his death.
With all his strenuous life in his younger years, he was a Pennsylvania coal miner before he enlisted, afterward a farmer. Mr. Fleming was a remarkably well preserved man and appeared not over 55 or 60 years of age.
An accident in the anthracite mines during which his face was cut and the wound filled with coal dust left an indelible mark on his cheek resembling a tattoo.
Born in County Londonderry, Ireland, New Year's day 1841, Mr. Fleming came to America with his parents when a boy and settled in Carbon County, Pa. in 1851. There, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted and re-enlisted serving all through the hostilities in the 16th and 186th Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the close of the was, he was honorably discharged. He was taken prisoner and confined at Winchester and Richmond, Va., New Orleans and Salisbury.
At home on a furlough, he was married to Miss Mary Ann Dougherty Nov. 24, 1862. Mrs. Fleming died Feb. 23, 1909. Theodore Dougherty, on whose farm the Mendon oil well was drilled, is a nephew of the deceased.
Mr. Fleming at the close of the war bought a farm in Honey Creek Township where he lived until he moved to Mendon in the spring of 1889. He had lived here ever since that date.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Hillman and Miss Gertrude Fleming, both of Mendon. Mr. Fleming was a man of fine mental powers, a great reader and very intelligent. He belonged to no organizations.
--- THOMAS FLEMING, OLD RESIDENT OF MENDON IS DEAD ---
Thomas Fleming, 82 years old, one of the few remaining veterans of the Civil War, with a splendid record of four years' service under the Stars and Stripes during which he spent eleven months in Confederate prisons, died Wednesday morning a 7 o'clock at the Mendon residence of his daughter, Mrs. John Hillman.
Mr. Fleming, in his advanced years suffered much from dizziness, his death being caused by cerebral hemorrhage. A slight hemorrhage which occurred while he slept, a week ago Saturday night, caused a slight paralysis. He threw this off and recovered the use of his voice in a few days and had been about the house up to two days before his death.
With all his strenuous life in his younger years, he was a Pennsylvania coal miner before he enlisted, afterward a farmer. Mr. Fleming was a remarkably well preserved man and appeared not over 55 or 60 years of age.
An accident in the anthracite mines during which his face was cut and the wound filled with coal dust left an indelible mark on his cheek resembling a tattoo.
Born in County Londonderry, Ireland, New Year's day 1841, Mr. Fleming came to America with his parents when a boy and settled in Carbon County, Pa. in 1851. There, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted and re-enlisted serving all through the hostilities in the 16th and 186th Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the close of the was, he was honorably discharged. He was taken prisoner and confined at Winchester and Richmond, Va., New Orleans and Salisbury.
At home on a furlough, he was married to Miss Mary Ann Dougherty Nov. 24, 1862. Mrs. Fleming died Feb. 23, 1909. Theodore Dougherty, on whose farm the Mendon oil well was drilled, is a nephew of the deceased.
Mr. Fleming at the close of the war bought a farm in Honey Creek Township where he lived until he moved to Mendon in the spring of 1889. He had lived here ever since that date.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Hillman and Miss Gertrude Fleming, both of Mendon. Mr. Fleming was a man of fine mental powers, a great reader and very intelligent. He belonged to no organizations.
Obituary for Thomas Fleming in the Quincy Daily Herald, April 13, 1923:
--- THOMAS FLEMING, OLD RESIDENT OF MENDON IS DEAD ---
Thomas Fleming, 82 years old, one of the few remaining veterans of the Civil War, with a splendid record of four years' service under the Stars and Stripes during which he spent eleven months in Confederate prisons, died Wednesday morning a 7 o'clock at the Mendon residence of his daughter, Mrs. John Hillman.
Mr. Fleming, in his advanced years suffered much from dizziness, his death being caused by cerebral hemorrhage. A slight hemorrhage which occurred while he slept, a week ago Saturday night, caused a slight paralysis. He threw this off and recovered the use of his voice in a few days and had been about the house up to two days before his death.
With all his strenuous life in his younger years, he was a Pennsylvania coal miner before he enlisted, afterward a farmer. Mr. Fleming was a remarkably well preserved man and appeared not over 55 or 60 years of age.
An accident in the anthracite mines during which his face was cut and the wound filled with coal dust left an indelible mark on his cheek resembling a tattoo.
Born in County Londonderry, Ireland, New Year's day 1841, Mr. Fleming came to America with his parents when a boy and settled in Carbon County, Pa. in 1851. There, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted and re-enlisted serving all through the hostilities in the 16th and 186th Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the close of the was, he was honorably discharged. He was taken prisoner and confined at Winchester and Richmond, Va., New Orleans and Salisbury.
At home on a furlough, he was married to Miss Mary Ann Dougherty Nov. 24, 1862. Mrs. Fleming died Feb. 23, 1909. Theodore Dougherty, on whose farm the Mendon oil well was drilled, is a nephew of the deceased.
Mr. Fleming at the close of the war bought a farm in Honey Creek Township where he lived until he moved to Mendon in the spring of 1889. He had lived here ever since that date.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Hillman and Miss Gertrude Fleming, both of Mendon. Mr. Fleming was a man of fine mental powers, a great reader and very intelligent. He belonged to no organizations.
--- THOMAS FLEMING, OLD RESIDENT OF MENDON IS DEAD ---
Thomas Fleming, 82 years old, one of the few remaining veterans of the Civil War, with a splendid record of four years' service under the Stars and Stripes during which he spent eleven months in Confederate prisons, died Wednesday morning a 7 o'clock at the Mendon residence of his daughter, Mrs. John Hillman.
Mr. Fleming, in his advanced years suffered much from dizziness, his death being caused by cerebral hemorrhage. A slight hemorrhage which occurred while he slept, a week ago Saturday night, caused a slight paralysis. He threw this off and recovered the use of his voice in a few days and had been about the house up to two days before his death.
With all his strenuous life in his younger years, he was a Pennsylvania coal miner before he enlisted, afterward a farmer. Mr. Fleming was a remarkably well preserved man and appeared not over 55 or 60 years of age.
An accident in the anthracite mines during which his face was cut and the wound filled with coal dust left an indelible mark on his cheek resembling a tattoo.
Born in County Londonderry, Ireland, New Year's day 1841, Mr. Fleming came to America with his parents when a boy and settled in Carbon County, Pa. in 1851. There, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted and re-enlisted serving all through the hostilities in the 16th and 186th Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the close of the was, he was honorably discharged. He was taken prisoner and confined at Winchester and Richmond, Va., New Orleans and Salisbury.
At home on a furlough, he was married to Miss Mary Ann Dougherty Nov. 24, 1862. Mrs. Fleming died Feb. 23, 1909. Theodore Dougherty, on whose farm the Mendon oil well was drilled, is a nephew of the deceased.
Mr. Fleming at the close of the war bought a farm in Honey Creek Township where he lived until he moved to Mendon in the spring of 1889. He had lived here ever since that date.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Hillman and Miss Gertrude Fleming, both of Mendon. Mr. Fleming was a man of fine mental powers, a great reader and very intelligent. He belonged to no organizations.
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