Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-02-26
JENNIE FLEMING DIES FIVE
WEEKS AFTER BREAKING HIP

Mention was made in this paper
last week that Miss Jennie Fleming
was in critical condition as the re.
suit of complications developing af.
ter she had fallen and sustained 6
broken hip Jan. 18. She died Fri
day, Feb. 20, at $50 a. m. The i'm
mediate cause of her death was
cerebral meningitis, and her death
occurred a little less than five
weeks after her injury was received
Though not robust previous to
breaking her hip, she had been ap-
parently in about her normal health
and had been around as usual and
had worked some at Everybody s
store where she had clerked at in
tervals for a number of years. She
was highly regarded, and we'll liked
by neighbors and friends, and leaves
many to mourn her passing.
Funeral services were held from
her late residence Sunday afternoon
at 1880 O'Clock, and burial was
made in the McConnelsville ceme-
terry, by the side of her father and
mother, John and Margaret Flem-
ing. The services were conducte
by her pastor Rev. w. j. Mccarthy
of the Methodist Protestant church,
music being furnished by quartet
composed of Mrs. Jas. Gill, Mrs J.
W. Macklem, Mr.. P. G.. Ball and Mr.
E. J. Arrick. The pail bearers were
Messrs. j. d. Fleming, Glen Lam
bert, George Woodward, Harry
Ridgley, Earl Hollingsworth and
Chas. Gaylord.
Jennie Fleming was born at
Todds, O.. Feb. Is, 1867, and died
at McConnelsville, o.. Feb. 20, 1881,
making her little past g. years o.
age at the time of her death Her
mother was frail, semi-invalid for
many years, and her father being 4
travelling salesman and much away
from home, Jennie had many home
responsibilities, to which she was
ever faithful. For some years she
served as postmistress at Todds. The
family moved here 80 years or more
had begun to fail. His death oc-
Cured in 1914. Mrs. Fleming died
ten years later, in 1924, following
which the daughter had continued
to reside in the family home here.
During the time of the long illness,
and death, of her parents. her deyo-
ton was constant and marked
When a young girl she united with
the church at Todds, later trans
ferring her membership to the Meth
Odist Protestant church here. AS
offered, she was a faith
full and interested attendant at the
church and Sunday school. She was
the last of her fathers family. Her
sister Mrs Laura Ridgley of Ches
terhill died in 1926, and her broth
er Fred Fleming died in 1929, at
Fort Wayne, Indiana. Nephews and
nieces surviving Miss Fleming are
J. Dean Fleming of Oneida, N. Y;
Mrs. Mabel Lambert, FIT. Wayne,
Ind Mrs. Ethel Cain and Mrs. Ed
it'll Woodward, Chesterhill, and
Harry Ridgley, GAINESVILLE. The late
Prof. Clarence Ridgley was also q
nephew. These nephews and nieces
were all devotion and kindness it
self to the deceased.
Among the outside persons in at
tendance at the funeral were Mrs.
Annie Gatewood of Chicago; Harry
Ridgley and family and Mr.. and
Mrs. d. w. Rider, GAINESVILLE; VIM.
and son Earl Hol-
ingsworth, Bartlett; G. E. Lambert,
Fort Wayne, Ind; Dean Fleming.
Oneida, N. Y; Mr.. and Mrs Albert
P. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Hayes, Marietta: Miss Ruth Rogers,
Marion, and Mr.. and Mrs. c. F.
Lehman, Columbus.