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256. EDITH MARIE⁵ FLEMING (William⁴, John³, Samuel², John¹); born 13 October 1895 on the Fleming Farm, Venango County, Shamburg area; died 27 January 1973 in St. Francis Hospital, Hartford Connecticut; buried in Fairview Cemetery, Pleasantville, Venango County, Pennsylvania; married 26 March 1919 (in Franklin, Venango County, by Rev. Norris A. White) RALPH ZINN CLIFFORD, born 11 January 1893 in Derry, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died 11 February 1963 in Titusville, Pennsylvania; buried in Fairview Cemetery; both Ralph and Marie are buried in Section E, Lot 8.

Edith Marie (Fleming) Clifford

Marie Fleming [Clifford] (1895-1973) (daughter of William and Josephine Lytle Fleming). Photo circa 1899. From the photograph album of my mother, Edith Marie Fleming Clifford.

My parents were married 26 March 1919 in Franklin, Pennsylvania. They first lived in a small house located between the Fleming's house and Route 227, Oil Creek Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania. I believe this house was built by my grandfather Fleming for my parents. It was subsequently lived in by my mother’s sister Ruth and her husband Claire Caldwell. This house was eventually donated by my grandfather as a parsonage to the Shamburg Christian Church and was moved to behind the church. I believe the house is now demolished. My parents later lived in rented houses (Edgewood Street and Brook Street) in Warren, Pennsylvania, and from 1934–1964 in three rented houses (428 Park Avenue, 141 Greeves Street and 115 1/2 Greeves Street) in Kane, Pennsylvania.

Edith Marie Fleming [Clifford] (1895-1973). Photo circa 1910. From the photograph album of my mother, Edith Marie Fleming Clifford.

Mom spent her youth on the Fleming Farm. She graduated from Pleasantville High School in 1915. I believe she then attended a secretarial school in Titusville. She spent her adult life as a housewife. She was a member of the Shamburg Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and, when living in Kane, (McKean County) Pennsylvania, attended the First Methodist Church. After my father died, Mom lived with her brother John L. Fleming on the Fleming Farm. In 1985 I wrote The Ancestors of Ralph Zinn Clifford and Edith Marie Fleming (privately published, 240 pp.), because I wanted a written record of my parents and their ancestors. In this publication I treated both my father and mother’s ancestors and included an extensive section of reminiscences about my parents.

Edith Marie (Fleming) Clifford and her children

Edith Marie (Fleming) Clifford (1895-1973) and her children. From left to right: Josephine (Clifford) Frase, Hugh F. Clifford, Marie (Fleming) Clifford, Lillian (Clifford) Stephens [Graham]. Photo taken at the home of Richard and Lillian (Clifford) Stephens in Batavia, New York, summer 1970. From Hugh F. Clifford.

Children of Ralph and Marie (Fleming) Clifford:

380	i.	Lillian⁶ Marie Clifford; married (first) Richard Martin Stephens; married (second) Bruce Graham.
381	ii.	Hugh Fleming Clifford (author of The Oil Creek Flemings); married Berdie Joan Hunt. See also author's vitae
382	iii.	Josephine Louise Clifford; married Donald William Frase.

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