Priscilla (Moon) Fleming (1837 - 1920)

Born 2 Aug 1837 in Herkimer, Herkimer, New York, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Albert F. Fleming — married 2 Aug 1856 in Dodge, Wisconsin, United States

Descendants

Died 30 Jan 1920 at age 82 in Garden City, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States

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Biography

Priscilla (Moon) Fleming has English ancestors.

OBITUARY^[1]

Grandma Priscilla Moon Fleming, an early pioneer of the county, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Hattie Fleming Ward, in Garden City, Minnesota on 30 January 1920 at 8 PM, death being due to old age and the infirmities incident thereto. Priscilla Moon was born in Herkimer Co., New York on 2 August 1837. In early childhood she immigrated with her parents to Dodge Co., Wisconsin where she grew up to young womanhood and was married on her 19th birthday (an Ancestry tree has August 2, 1856) to Albert Fleming a young carpenter from St. Lawrence Co., New York. Conceiving it their mission to go west and aid in building up and populating this then empty wilderness, they came to Garden City in 1858 before Minnesota became a state and procured a little cottage home on the banks of the Watonwan at the foot of the old Gerry Hill and just across the way from where she died. Here they lived with their three children at the time of the Indian outbreak and massacre and little can we of today know or realize what hardships and privations and dangers they faced and endured and overcame in carrying out their mission. In the autumn of 1861 they moved to the farm four miles southeast of town which has since been her home. Her husband died about ten years ago and since then she has visited among her children much of the time. One sister Mrs Clara Moon Clark survives her and nine children, twenty eight grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren bear testimony to the faithfulness with which she fulfilled her mission. Two children died in infancy. The nine living are Mrs. Ida Hilliard of Montevideo Minnesota, Calvin of St. Paul, David, Charles, Lester, Mrs Hattie Ward and Walter all living near Garden City and Ellsworth and Mrs Minnie Pike of Long Beach, California. All of the children except the last two were present at the funeral services which were conducted from the home of Mrs. Ward Sunday afternoon, the Rev. W. W. Brown of Vernon Center officiating. She was buried beside her husband in the Garden City cemetery.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #94601510

Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990; Priscilla Fleming; Event Type: Death; Event Date: 30 January 1920; Event Place: Garden City, Blue Earth, Minnesota; Age: 82; Marital Status: Widowed; Birth Date: 2 August 1837; Birthplace: New York; Father's Name: David Moon; Father's Birthplace: New York; Mother's Name: Maranda Nobles; Mother's Birthplace: New York; Record Number: 25; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDH9-88R

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Acknowledgments

Moon-1904 was created by Leila Hagen through the import of hagen2.ged on October 7, 2014.