This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RichardFleming21 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.fleming/2128.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks for the response to my post. Here are my notes from my family tree software. I have Newsom Cooper, Jr.'s notes and photographs of gravestones. I talked to Newsom several times and he believes in his research concerning EDR's parents John Fleming and Sarah Roberts. I cannot find, and I have looked, for any other evidence or reference for EDR's parents to be able to follow ancestors back. It gets interesting and murky for the next several generations back so I am only as sure as Newsom. Newsom's dad Newsom Cooper Sr. married Mary George Fleming, one of three children of my ggrandfather Marcus Lafayette Fleming. Here is the "Notes" part of EDR Fleming: "Elkany Dulany Rush Fleming raised a large family in Kentucky. Information from Newsom Cooper, Jr. (who did extensive research into EDR Fleming and possibly his ancestors) and photographs he took in 1983 on E.D.R Fleming's home place and large monuments at Cooper Cemetery, Cooper Church, Wayne County, KY, about 4 miles south of Monticello, KY. Grave monuments for EDRF and Dorcas just have E. D. R. Fleming and Dorcas engraved. The monuments are tall and slender and here is not room for the full names. Photos clearly show Fleming, not Flemming and dates. Died of Sposattic Cholera at Beaver Creek, Wayne County, KY. Attended by Dr. J. Frisbie. Copy of marriage bond of Dulany R. Fleming (Flemming was put on the document by Test clerk, a Mr. Simpson) and Francis B. Vickery (Dorcas's father) for the upcoming marriage between Dulany R. Fleming and Dorcas Vickery is dated Sept. 11, 1833. When Dulany signed the document he signed Dulany R. Fleming. They are married 4 days later." In Newsom, Jr's notes he arrived at the Elkany Dulany Rush Fleming name after considering several possibilities. He also research many John Flemings and concluded that the best possible John was John and Sarah. That is all I have and will share. Do you have more? Richard Lee Fleming Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.