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Sources consulted for the biography of:Leonard R. Flemings ( –d. 1937)
Primary Sources
- United States Census Schedules, Lancaster County, 1860 (age two on June 22), 1870 (age twelve on July 16), 1900 (birth date recorded as January 1861), 1910 (age fifty-two in May), 1920 (age sixty-one on February 10), 1930 (age sixty-eight on April 30), all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Age thirty-four on September 7, 1895, in Stevenson and Alexander & Co. v. J. C. Palmer, Etc., Lancaster County Chancery Causes, 1896-002 [p. 74], Local Government Records Collection, Lancaster Court Records, Library of Virginia.
- First marriage recorded in Lancaster County Marriage Register, 1883, Library of Virginia.
- Lancaster County Deed Book 46:273, Library of Virginia (earliest record as justice of the peace dated July 29, 1887).
- Report of the Secretary of the Commonwealth to the Governor and General Assembly of Virginia (1904–1937).
- Virginia Department of Health, "List of Registrars of Births and Deaths in the Commonwealth of Virginia," Virginia Health Bulletin 4 (1912): 231.
- Death date at age of seventy-six years and eight months on Death Certificate, Lancaster County, 1937, Bureau of Vital Statistics Records, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), p. 64 (identifying Flemings as a storekeeper, a justice of the peace for thirty years or more, and "Very useful to his community").
Newspapers
- Washington Post, April 2, 1896
- Richmond Dispatch, July 24, 1896
- Irvington Virginia Citizen, October 12, 1900; October 21, 1904; October 12, 1906; August 16, 1907; November 8, 1907; June 19, 1908; December 18, 1908; June 3, 1910
- Kilmarnock Rappahannock Record, October 27, 1927; November 10, 1927; November 5, 1931; November 7, 1935
- Baltimore Afro-American, October 25, 1930
Obituary
- Kilmarnock Rappahannock Record, April 8, 1937, with birth date of July 1860 (quotation)
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