Alexander Fleming was the youngest son of John and Sarah Fleming, who moved from Center [sic] county in the year of 1813 and settled near the pike in what is now called Clarion township, and afterward moved to Redbank township, where they raised their family. Alexander Fleming joined the Presbyterian church at Troy with his first wife, who died in the year 1876. He afterwards married Miss Lydia Richards and then united with the West Millville Presbyterian church, in which he remained a faithful and devoted member until his death January 22, 1895, aged 69 years, 9 months and 21 days.
He left a wife and five children to mourn their loss but they do not mourn as they who have no hope, as he gave strong evidence that he had made his peace with his Maker, and has gone to join his two children, gone before. Alexander Fleming suffered long and severe, having suffered for three years with cancer in his lip, which was successfully cured, but his constitution was affected and for the last 6 years of his life disease of the heart brought on other diseases.
On the 6th of April 1891 he received a stroke of apoplexy which disabled his right side and came near taking him home; and for the last two years of his life his suffering was constant and at times was intense but during his long suffering it was borne with Christian patience and his word day by day was “Christ suffered more for me than I can suffer, blessed be his name.”
~ Clarion Jacksonian, 07-Mar-1895
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