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Flemings of Fleming Island : an historic Florida family, TheEntry/Object ID
Library.1457Description
vi, 281 pages : illustrations (photographs), maps ; 23 cm
The Flemings of Fleming Island : an historic Florida family by Scott Ritchie.
Includes bibliography and index.
Summary: Irishman George Fleming arrived in Spanish East Florida in 1783. He established Hibernia on an island in the St. Johns River that is known today as Fleming Island. Hibernia became home to George's children and grandchildren, and in the course of over two hundred years, seven generations of the Fleming family have called it home. Among his descendants are Southern planters, soldiers, and statesmen most notably Francis Philip Fleming, the fifteenth governor of Florida. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Fleming family transformed Hibernia into a winter hotel that became a celebrated destination in the early days of Florida tourism and into the twentieth century. Today, Hibernia is a small residential enclave where a few remnants of the Fleming family's rich history still stand to remind us of days gone by. Author Scott Ritchie is part of the Fleming family by marriage. George Fleming is the fourth great-grandfather of Ritchie's children, who were all born in their ancestral home of Hibernia. A retired educator, Ritchie has a bachelor s degree from the University of Northern Colorado, two master s degrees from Jacksonville University, and a Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin. -- publisher
Contents: George Fleming in Spanish East Florida -- Starting anew - the Fleming Family copes with the death of George -- Second Seminoile War and the second destruction of Hibernia -- Lewis and Margaret Fleming -- The Civil War -- Post-war Hibernia -- Francis Philip "Frank" Fleming: Politics and yellow fever -- The era of Fred and Margot Fleming at Hibernia -- The Flemings and slavery (the question of interracial children) -- The last years of the Hibernia winter resort -- Appendix I: George Fleming's patriot war claim with awards (1817, amended 1834, revised by US Treasury Secretary J C Spencer, awarded 1844) -- Appendix II: Sophia Fleming's assets at the time of her death -- Appendix III: George Fleming's Jr.'s assets at the time ofd his death -- Appendix IV: Margaret Seton Fleming's assets at the time of her death -- Appendix V: George Fleming's slaves -- Appendix VI: Fleming family slave ownership from U.S. Federal census data.
Brief biography of Dr. Louise Cecilia "Lulu" Fleming with photograph p.312-315.
Other names included: Fanny Brown, Francis Philip Fatio, Admiral Lord Edward Hawke, James McGirt, Fernandina, San Pablo, Lewis Fleming, Augustina Alexandra Cortes, Bernardo Segui, Father Miguel Crosby, Squire Streeter, Langley Bryan Land Grant, Sarah and Domingo Acosta, Andrew McDowell, Battle of Black Point, Battle of Wahoo Swamp, Margaret Seton Fleming, Solomon F. Halliday, Mary Magdalena Juana FlemingFarquhar Bethune, Dr. Abei Seymour Baldwin,Fleming Island, Hibernia Hotel, Julia Lord Noyes, ship Key Stone State, Magnolia Hotel, Mrs. Tiers, Jacksonville Light Infantry, Picolata, Frederick Alexander "Fred" Fleming, Battle of Cold Harbor, Captain Russell, A. W. Cole, Charles Seaver, Hibernia Golf Club, Ellen "Ellie" Norton, Katie Murray, Mary Miller, river steamer "May Garner", artist Bror Anders Wikstrom, Margaret Frazier, Holly Cottage, St. Margaret's Episcopal Chapel.Collection
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Fleming family., Fleming, George., Hibernia (Plantation)., Hibernia (Fla.)., Slaves -- Florida -- Hibernia (Plantation).Publication Details
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Ritchie, ScottPublisher
Florida Historical Society PressPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Cocoa, FLCall No.
F 317 .S2 R57 2019