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- Served KY in the Union Army during civil war, 39th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Company H, enlisted 12/18/62, at Peach Orchard, KY, discharged 2/26/64, at Cattletsburg, KY, on account of disability.
Much of the information on Fleming Stafford thanks to his descendent Tara Maggard, [email protected]. From Tara: My source for Fleming's birth date is the 1900 Lawrence Co KY Census, which lists March 1823. He is in the 1890 Special Veterans census for Lawrence Co, KY also. In the 1880 Lawrence Census he's listed as 53 yrs old (b. abt 1827?), in 1870 Lawrence Co he's listed as 46 yrs old (b. abt 1824?), I haven't found him in 1860 census yet, and finally in 1850 Pike Co KY Census he's listed as 36 yrs old (b. abt 1814?). As you can see, the census has his birth date jumping from between 1814 to 1827. His pension record states he was mustered into service of the 39th Regt. KY Infantry (39th KY Mounted Infantry) on Jan 15, 1863 at 38 yrs. old which would make his birth date abt 1825 and in another place on the Declaration for Original Invalid Pension dated 10-10-1879, he's listed as 52 yrs old making his birth date abt 1827.
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""Marriage Records of Pike County Kentucky 1822 - 1865"," Kentucky Marriages from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, John Jay Johnson, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore MD, 1983, 2nd. Edition 1996, Vol. 35 (July 1937), Page 655
"8/22/1841 Stafford, Flemmon - Evans, Elizabeth. D. of Ferrell; S. of Nancy.".
Fleming enlisted with the 39th Kentucky Mounted Infantry and was mustered into the service on 15 Jan., 1863, at Piketon. He was in The Battle of Turman's Ferry (See By Robert Baker and Brian Hall) and was one of the men mentioned who suffered frostbite from exposure. Fleming was admitted to the Regimental Hospital on 25 November, 1863, with Chronic Rheumatism according to the Surgeon General's report and was discharged on 15 Feb., 1864, at Catlettsburg in Boyd Co., KY, due to disability. His pension papers describe him as 6' tall, fair complexion, light or gray hair, and blue eyes.
On 22 Dec 1885 when J Fleming was about 62, he second married Elizabeth "Peggy" HARDY-ARTRIP (widow of Jackson ARTRIP), in Lawrence Co., KY. Born on Aug. 1827, in NC. They had no children.
J. Fleming STAFFORD died in Boyd Co., KY, (Catlettsburg) on 27 Mar., 1901. Elizabeth HARDY-ARTRIP applied for Fleming's pension. The pension file is approximately 41 pages long and includes a "Special Investigation" into the circumstances of Fleming's death. One of Fleming's daughters, Sophie STAFFORD-WELLMAN, accused their step-mother of having poisoned their father to death. It was never determined from the pension papers whether or not the daughter's claim was proven to be true.
Census:
- Listed as Flemming Stafford, a farmer, with wife Elizabeth and childrn Elexium, John F., Phebe, Hammond, Compton and Lewis.
1880. Listed with wife Elizabeth and daughter Addie. Parents born in VA.
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1823 - 1901 (~ 78 years)
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