Hey Patricia: Thanks so much for the response! I really appreciate it. I reviewed the reference regarding "E. B. Titus elected in place of W.H. Flemming", and I can see you are correct in assuming my "C.B. Titus" should be "E.B. Titus. I debated which one to use, since the copyist had very fancy, flourishing handwriting - almost like calligraphy - and I couldn't tell which it was from the document, as the top part of the capital "E" was very small, and rather faint. I am sorry to say I cannot answer the question regarding any connection to Amelia, as I have nothing showing him with the rank of major, in the documentation I have on his military service. I just have the three things(re his military, but other stuff on personal). Is perchance Amelia's middle name Emma? William's first wife was Emma Mary Hamblin (or Hamlin), who died at a very young age, widowing William with two small boys about 5 and 7 years (?). My late Aunt Mary was named after her. My grandfather Claude Fleming was born in Thorp Springs in 1878, but since I can't find his brother (John or maybe Stephen Vincent Fleming), I cannot tell which was the oldest. I'm thinking it was my grandfather. After great grandmother died (and according to his granddaughters - my mother, and aunts..), William packed up his two little boys in a wagon, and driving his best cattle before him, removed to Missouri, where he lived the rest of his life in McDonald and Newton Counties. I think one reason he hasn't surfaced much prior to my research, is because the cemetery at Neosho has his middle initial incorrect. They have his name as William R. Fleming in the cemetery register, but the tombstone in the Fleming family plot is correct, as I have seen it myself. The cemetery refuses to change it, particulary without any proof in the records, but Texas had no death certificate for Emma Mary Fleming; Oklahoma (where William died at his daughter's house, then taken home to Neosho for burial)no death certificate; and as nearly as I can tell none in Missouri either, because he did not die there. Given the fact that vital records are either all wrong or do not exist for any of the three states involved, it has been a real challenge. William's second wife (LaDora Combs nee Timmonds) also died in OK, but I was able to get death certificate. Same cemetery (Neosho IOOF), merely has her listed as "Mrs. Fleming",shipped from OK. How anyone finds anyone there is beyond me... It is however, a very old cemetery, and has upwards of 10,000 people (?) buried there. It has been in service since its inception during the civil war, and unlike many others, it just kept going, instead of separating the pioneers from the more contemporary. That's what the cemetery told me, anyway. The section just below great grandfather was the first section opened, and opened to receive civil war dead. It is in abysmal condition, and no one doing anything to preserve the last of documentation of our civil war ancestors. At least not when I was there in 2002. If you are of my family, I have more on his post war activities than early years. That gap is a real problem. I noticed a James (d. bef 1914). That is definitely a family name, as are Thomas and Samuel. Wms obit states he was born in Ray County, MO,in 1845, died Tulsa 1924, and LaDora was alive at the time, and probably would have known the details to give the paper for the obit, so I have pretty much accepted them as being okay. There was an "Uncle Jim" of Missouri and Oklahoma which my mother rememberd from her childhood. I have his obit as well (again, died in OK, taken home to Missouri for burial. He was buried at Anderson, MO, and although not listed in the cemetery record, they tell me the grave is definitely there.) When he died, his sister had not seen him for 42 years, and read of his demise in the newspaper in Oklahoma, and went to the funeral home. There was a newspaper article about it. Another interesting coincidence was the name "Hallie". William had a daughter named Hallie who died in her early twenties, and is buried near him in the family cemtery plot in Neosho. It's an unusual name, and funny it's in both lines, despite me not recognizing a Graves connection. There is another William "B". Flemming that was in Terry's Texas Rangers. He was wounded at Shiloh and discharged after that, but it appears to be a different William, since another contributor advised me that Big Black River was after that, so it couldn't have been my William, since he was in that engagement. In fact, I have been helping someone else with the other William! Don't know where to go from here.. Any suggestions? Again, many thanks for your time! You are so kind to give us so much information.. Thanks for sharing..