Izetta was the daughter of Phillip and Muhulda (Mullins) Fleming. She married Creed Monroe Vanover on January 5, 1893 when she was almost 17. Izetta gave birth to eleven children. She died at the age of 40, giving birth to her 11th child, which died with her, and according to family tradition is buried in Izetta's arms.

Creed was expecting a child, (Mildred), with Martha Moore in July 1916, the same year Izetta was pregnant with his 11th child. He never married Martha.

Creed married Ona (Bolling) Stewart, 18 years his junior, several weeks after Izetta died. She brought two children from her previous marriage, Robert and Bertha Kate, 8 year old twins. Creed and Ona did not bear any children together.

As witnessed and told by Creed & Izetta's children, "Onie" was a mean-spirited step-mother. Often, the children were hungry and unfed. Many left home, as children, to find work to escape her. This is family history. When they could safely do so, as adults, they made their voices heard and passed down the history to their children and so on. By finally speaking up, they freed themselves from the bonds of this injustice. Why Creed turned a blind eye to Onie's many abuses is unknown. Creed did not maintain a relationship with his children or his many grandchildren. The grandchildren did not get to know him. Izetta was dearly loved by her children.

Izetta and her infant, Alkataw, were first buried in the Vanover family cemetery on the old Vanover farm near the mouth of George's Fork Creek of the Pound River. Creed Monroe Vanover died at the age of 84 yrs. + 11 months at his home in Tennessee. He was first buried in Ona's family plot in Tennessee, but was moved in 1962, to the old Vanover family cemetery beside his first wife, Izetta (Fleming) Vanover. Izetta and Creed were moved and re-interred at Phipps Memorial Cemetery with new headstones. Their son, Arcie, is buried next to them.
(Bio written by: Debby Haase McLean with information told by my mother, Jackaline Vanover Haase-Dutka. Her father was Clarence Estes Vanover, my grandfather.)