Robert Luther Fleming

From the Record

A farmer, teacher, blacksmith, surveyor, local Methodist preacher and longtime district-school-board secretary. He and Amy moved their family from Virginia to Iowa in 1852.

From the Family Manuscript

• Thomas Maddox 5 (20 June 1788-12 August 1872), a son of Matthew, Sr 4. and Rachel (Bonnifield) Maddox was born in Harrison County, Virginia (WV). Thomas moved to Wood County, Virginia (WV) in 1812. Thomas 5, along with his two wives, had 22 children. Thomas, both wives and six of his children are buried in the Maddox Cemetery, Wood County, West Virginia. His children were, Amy Maddox 6 (1814-1880),married Robert Luther Fleming, Lucy Maddox 6 born, 1815, married William Davis, Martin G. Maddox 6 (1817-1847), married Julia Ann Romine, William P. Maddox 6 (1818-1904), married first Nancy Price, then Olive R. Hopkins, Mary Maddox 6, born, 1821, John Maddox 6 (1823-1863), Drusilla Maddox 6 (1824-1847), married Thomas B. Leach, Victoria Maddox 6 (1827-1847), married Caleb T. Hill, Frances Maddox 6, born, 1829, Emmeline Maddox 6, born, 1831, married Robert McReynolds, Thomas Maddox 6 (1834-1834 child), Virginia Maddox 6 (1835-1877), married first, Bascom Morrison then John Bartlett, James Maddox 6 (1837-1858), Hester Villeta Maddox 6 (1839-1882), married David Aresto Bridges, Thomas Benton Maddox 6 (1841-1882), married Mattie A. Mitchell, David M. Maddox 6 (1844-1845 child), Lodema Maddox 6 (1845-1921), married Crandson Wolfe, Appalene Rebecca Maddox 6 (1847-1927), married John Willard Moyers, Eliza Page Maddox 6 (1850-1911), married Martin V. Cales Ann O. Maddox 6 (1852-1899), married Robert John Howell, Martha Ann Maddox 6 (1855-1855 child) and Sarah Minerva Maddox 6 (1858-1903), married Henry Dills Truman.

  Maddox Family History, transcript line 587.

Sources for this Record

• biography · Wade Fleming email concerning Robert Luther Fleming and Amy Maddox, scan pages 1–4; email reproduces the 1880 census and a 1906 Mahaska County biographical sketch; page 4 SHA-256 eee37f16aef08ee906f00b2ce242cbbe08b9481cbb85f142eadb3539362615ca.
• birth · Wade Fleming email concerning Robert Luther Fleming and Amy Maddox, scan pages 1–2; 3 September 1811 in Harrison County.
• death · Wade Fleming email concerning Robert Luther Fleming and Amy Maddox, scan page 2; reproduced 1906 county biography gives 28 June 1894 on the Richland Township home farm.

Where the Sources Disagree

• death date — 29 June 1894 (Wade Fleming email summary, scan page 1) · 28 June 1894 (1906 Mahaska County biography reproduced in the same email, scan page 2) — the chronicle uses 28 June 1894.

  The published county biography is preferred over the correspondent's one-day-different summary; both readings remain visible.