Acknowledgments

None of us who are interested in our
families’ journeys are without a debt of gratitude
to the family historian, the storyteller and the researcher
on whose prior work our version of history is based.

Both history and mystery, the re-telling of our
families’ stories is nonetheless ever evolving ...
New generations are born and new stories are told,
even as we look back in time.

With apologies to the many I’ve regrettably failed to mention below,
I wish to give credit to those on whose shoulders this project stands, especially:

Frieda Francine (Jones) Pendergrass Allen

John Barnhill

Elizabeth D. Benton

Mr.and Mrs. Hazel Christine (Dykes) Breland

Marsha Elise Browne

Melvin Earl Clark, Jr.

Barbara Elizabeth (Gonce) Clepper

Trish (Worthington) Cobb

Marie Baker (Derry) DeLamar

Mitchell Dayle Fincher

Mrs. Jessie Roy (Jane) Fleming

John Cantzon Foster, Jr.

Margaret Patterson (Bissell) Fulcher

John Steele Gordon

Alice Chandler (Washington) Griffin

Elizabeth Gray (Johnson) Mooney Haile

Joyce Dell (Cobb) Hamm

Warren Allen Hart

Charles Patton Hash, Jr.

Evelyn Fleming Hoffman

Peter Fleming Hoffman

Jeanne Ann (Townsend) Holmes

Bob Guill Johnson

Charles Frank Johnson

Jane Lois Elizabeth (Fleming) Kachel

Roger E. Kammerer

Mary Helen (Mobley) Kitchen

Rufus Bartowe (Rudy) Lancaster, Jr.

Emily Cheryl (Mayo) Malone

Ralph Palmer Marsh III

Richard L. Matteson

Stephen Stancill Mims

Floride Cantey (Johnson) Nelson

M. Sgt. Robert K. Nobles, Jr. (Ret.)

Judy (Whitesell) Nordgren

Katherine Lee (Smith) Parsons

Elizabeth Alexander (Watson) Reeves

Brenda Bernice (Kellam) Schilling

Dixon Bogue Smith

Tommie Jo (Anderson) Stapleton

John McLeod Stockbridge

Richard Chesson Taft

Anne Jackson van Wagenen

Juliana Bredenberg (Wright) Weeks

Judith Marie Whichard

Obie Guilford Whichard

Dr. John Barry Whitney III

Doris Mae (Klessig) Wright

Mary Louise (Detwiler) Young

Also to my patient wife,
Elizabeth Ann Young

and my parents,
Walter Saunders Fleming
and Clare Robbins (Patton) Fleming

and to the memory of ‘G.M.’

In her personal diary of August 15, 1921 ...
Margaret Gray (Johnson) Patton (then age 14) wrote:

‘Please God may I keep the most cheerful life ...
that I may ease others’ as well as my own burdens
with a cheerful sunny smiling face.’

From the vantage point as her grandson,
that virtue was evident throughout her life
as she brought radiance and grace and sunshine
to everything she did and everyone she touched. – Joseph T. Fleming

and for our daughter.
Margaret Katherine Fleming

and our son,
William Farley Fleming

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