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Emily Symons Fleenor
Great-grandmother of Michael
- Years
- 1915–1975
- Surname line
- Symons / Fleenor
- Living status
- Deceased
- Evidence
- supported
Events
| Date | Event | Place | Status | Claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 17, 1915 | birth | Illinois | supported | claim:emily-symons-fleenor:birth:1 |
| between 1934 and 1950 | migration | — | supported | claim:emily-symons-fleenor:migration:1 |
| April 1, 1950 (census day) | residence | Englewood, Colorado | confirmed | claim:emily-symons-fleenor:residence:1 |
| July 17, 1975 | death | — | supported | claim:emily-symons-fleenor:death:1 |
| after July 17, 1975 | burial | Littleton, Colorado | supported | claim:emily-symons-fleenor:burial:1 |
Relationships
Parents
- William Henry Harrup Symons supported
- On the tree
claim:william-henry-harrup-symons:parent-of:2
- Olive Bromell supported
- On the tree
claim:olive-bromell:parent-of:2
Partners
- Paul T. Fleenor confirmed
- On the tree
claim:paul-fleenor:spouse-of:1
Children
- Joan Fleenor Facchinello confirmed
- On the tree
claim:emily-symons-fleenor:parent-of:1
- Patricia “Pat” Fleenor Deneke supported
- On the tree
claim:emily-symons-fleenor:parent-of:2
- Paulette [Fleenor] Turner supported
- On the tree
claim:emily-symons-fleenor:parent-of:3
- Jim Fleenor supported
- On the tree
claim:emily-symons-fleenor:parent-of:4
Claim ledger
Every exported claim about this person: what it says, how strong its best source is (tier 1 = original record image, 5 = unsourced lead), its review state, and the sources that carry it. Source links open the workings page for that citation.
| Claim | Predicate | Summary | Status | Tier | Review | Sources |
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claim:emily-symons-fleenor:name:1 | name | Emily Symons Fleenor Joan's obituary confirms Emily (Symons) Fleenor as her mother, and the 1950 census schedule (tier 1) enters her as “Emily”, wife of the head. Supported, not confirmed: the maiden name Symons rests on that one obituary and a marriage record would settle it. Her Find a Grave memorial (tier 3) gives the fuller form “Emily Harrap Symons Fleenor”, kept as a lead variant, not the record-backed value. “Emily Roberts” is a rejected workbook form (claim:emily-symons-fleenor:name:2, conflict:emily-symons-fleenor:name) and is not carried as a variant (T-RES-004, 2026-10-07). Conflict: | supported | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:emily-symons-fleenor:living-status:1 | living-status | deceased Deceased: the Littleton interment-ledger extract (tier 2) records Fleenor, Emily, died 17 Jul 1975, in the grave her memorial links to Paul T. Fleenor and Joan. | supported | 2 · official-transcript | accepted |
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claim:emily-symons-fleenor:burial:1 | burial | burial · after July 17, 1975 · Littleton, Colorado The Littleton interment-ledger extract (tier 2) has a row for Fleenor, Emily (residence Denver, aged 59, died 17 Jul 1975, Block 14 Lot 74 Grave 8); her Find a Grave memorial records the same grave and links her to Paul T. Fleenor (Grave 7B) and to Joan. The identity with Joan's mother runs through that block/lot/grave match and the age, an evidence chain rather than a direct statement, so the burial is supported, not confirmed. The Denver Public Library's 1975–1979 obituary index has no Fleenor entry, so the obituary route is the Littleton Independent of July 1975, not a Denver paper. | supported | 2 · official-transcript | accepted |
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claim:emily-symons-fleenor:birth:1 | birth | birth · September 17, 1915 · Illinois Her Find a Grave memorial (tier 3, metadata only) gives born 17 Sep 1915, Cook County, Illinois, and the interment ledger's age 59 at death in July 1975 is consistent. The 1950 census schedule (tier 1) records her as wife of the head, aged 34, born Illinois — an original record that corroborates the memorial's year and states the birth state, which is what the README allows at supported. The place is recorded at state precision only: the memorial's Cook County is tier 3. The exact day is memorial-only and needs her Cook County birth certificate (question:emily-symons-fleenor:parentage, question:paul-fleenor+emily-symons:marriage-and-dates). | supported | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:emily-symons-fleenor:death:1 | death | death · July 17, 1975 The Littleton interment-ledger extract (tier 2) records Fleenor, Emily, residence Denver, aged 59, died 17 Jul 1975; her memorial gives the same date. The ledger's residence column is not a place of death and the memorial's “Denver” is tier 3, so no place is recorded. Supported rather than confirmed because her identity with Joan's mother is tied through the memorial's grave link and the age, not stated by the ledger. | supported | 2 · official-transcript | accepted |
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claim:emily-symons-fleenor:residence:1 | residence | residence · April 1, 1950 (census day) · Englewood, Colorado The 1950 census schedule (tier 1) records Emily as wife of the head in the Englewood household, aged 34, married, born Illinois. Two further children of the head, both living, are on the sheet and are not entered; no address, occupation or hours column is copied. | confirmed | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:emily-symons-fleenor:migration:1 | migration | migration · between 1934 and 1950 · Evanston, Illinois → Englewood, Colorado Joan's obituary (tier 2) states the family's move to Colorado without a year; no source names Emily individually in it, so her participation follows “her family”. The 1950 schedule (tier 1) places her in the Englewood household on census day and both daughters were born at Evanston in 1933 and 1934, which bounds the leg to between 1934 and 1950. The range is deliberately not narrowed (T-RES-005, K-1). | supported | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:emily-symons-fleenor:parent-of:1 | parent-of | parent-of Joan Fleenor Facchinello Joan's obituary names Emily Symons Fleenor as her mother, which states it directly. The 1950 census schedule (tier 1) is consistent — Emily is the wife of the head and Joan a daughter of the head — and FamilySearch supplies a matching parent group. | confirmed | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:emily-symons-fleenor:parent-of:2 | parent-of | parent-of Patricia “Pat” Fleenor Deneke A sibling inference, which the README places at supported and never at confirmed: no tier 1–2 source names Emily as Patricia's mother. Joan's obituary names Emily as Joan's mother and Patricia as Joan's sister, Patricia's own obituary names Joan as her sister, and the 1950 schedule (tier 1) has Emily as wife of the head and Patricia as a daughter of the head — consistent with motherhood but not a statement of it, because the census records relationship to the head only. Patricia's memorial links the same parents, compiled. The record check is her Cook County birth certificate of 17 February 1933 (question:pat-fleenor:parents-record). | supported | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:emily-symons-fleenor:parent-of:3 | parent-of | parent-of Paulette [Fleenor] Turner | supported | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:emily-symons-fleenor:parent-of:4 | parent-of | parent-of Jim Fleenor | supported | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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Conflicts and open questions
Conflict
conflict:emily-symons-fleenor:name(resolved)Joan's mother is recorded as Emily Symons Fleenor (her obituary) and as “Emily Roberts” (a workbook variant).
Joan's obituary names Emily Symons Fleenor directly; nothing supports the Roberts form, so it is kept only as a rejected variant, not an established alternate identity.
claim:emily-symons-fleenor:name:1supported Emily Symons Fleenorclaim:emily-symons-fleenor:name:2needs-verification Emily Roberts — rejected
Question
question:emily-symons-fleenor:roberts-variant(answered)Where does the workbook's “Emily Roberts” form for Joan's mother come from, and is it a transcription error or a different person?
Next: No further search: Joan's obituary names Emily Symons Fleenor; the Roberts form stays a rejected variant unless a record for Emily (her marriage to Paul T. Fleenor or her birth record) shows it. Re-checked on 2026-10-08: the 1950 census schedule enters her as "Emily", wife of the head, and neither her own nor her husband's Find a Grave memorial carries any "Roberts" form.
claim:emily-symons-fleenor:name:1supported Emily Symons Fleenor: Emily Symons Fleenorclaim:emily-symons-fleenor:name:2needs-verification Emily Symons Fleenor: Emily Roberts
Question
question:paul-fleenor+emily-symons:marriage-and-dates(open)When and where did Paul T. Fleenor and Emily Symons marry, and are 1 Jan 1913 and 17 Sep 1915 their record birth dates? The marriage is bounded only by Patricia's birth at Evanston in February 1933, so it was before 1933; the 1950 census schedule gives Paul's birth state as Iowa and Emily's as Illinois, and Paul's death in 1990 is now corroborated by two tier-2 sources. Both exact days still come from Find a Grave metadata only, and a 1 January birth is a common index placeholder.
Next: FamilySearch "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810–1940" (post-1877 registers name the parties' parents) for FLEENOR–SYMONS, Cook County, 1930–1933, then the Cook County Clerk genealogy index as the paid fallback, then Iowa county marriages if Cook County is empty. Cook County birth certificates for Emily (1915), Patricia (1933) and Joan (1934), each of which names the parents and Paul's birthplace. Emily's 1975 Denver death certificate, and the Littleton Independent of July 1975 — the Denver Public Library's 1975–1979 obituary index has no Fleenor entry. For Paul, the Rocky Mountain News item of 17 December 1990 and his Colorado death certificate (question:paul-fleenor:parentage). Promote the marriage claim and the exact birth and death days only from those records; nothing opened names Paul's parents.
claim:paul-fleenor:spouse-of:1confirmed Paul T. Fleenor: spouse-of Emily Symons Fleenorclaim:paul-fleenor:birth:1supported Paul T. Fleenor: birth · 1913 · Iowaclaim:paul-fleenor:death:1supported Paul T. Fleenor: death · December 12, 1990claim:emily-symons-fleenor:birth:1supported Emily Symons Fleenor: birth · September 17, 1915 · Illinoisclaim:emily-symons-fleenor:death:1supported Emily Symons Fleenor: death · July 17, 1975claim:emily-symons-fleenor:burial:1supported Emily Symons Fleenor: burial · after July 17, 1975 · Littleton, Colorado
Question
question:emily-symons-fleenor:parentage(open)Who were Emily Symons Fleenor's parents? Her Find a Grave memorial (tier 3) links William Henry Symons Sr (1888–1968, born England, died Evanston) and Olive Bromell Symons (1891–1979, born England, died Wilmette), married 1915, buried at Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, with five Symons siblings. No record naming them has been read, contributor links on a public family tree are not a source that names a relationship, and the "Harrap" / "Harrop" middle name varies across the family's memorials.
Next: Emily's Cook County birth certificate of 17 September 1915 and her 1975 Denver death certificate, both of which name parents; the Chicago Tribune of 25 September 1968 for her father's death notice (a clipping is photographed on his memorial); the 1920–1940 federal censuses for the Symons household at Evanston. Add William and Olive as person records only when one of those names them.
claim:emily-symons-fleenor:name:1supported Emily Symons Fleenor: Emily Symons Fleenorclaim:emily-symons-fleenor:birth:1supported Emily Symons Fleenor: birth · September 17, 1915 · Illinois
Question
question:pat-fleenor:parents-record(open)Which record names Emily Symons Fleenor as Patricia (Fleenor) Deneke's mother? Paul is named as her father by the 1950 census schedule and by a 2022 and a 2023 obituary, but Emily's motherhood rests on a sibling inference through Joan's obituary and on the schedule's "wife of the head" and "daughter of the head" columns, which state relationship to the head only.
Next: Her Cook County birth certificate of 17 February 1933, which names both parents; failing that, the Fleenor–Symons marriage register entry (question:paul-fleenor+emily-symons:marriage-and-dates). Promote claim:emily-symons-fleenor:parent-of:2 to confirmed only from a source that names Emily as her mother.
claim:emily-symons-fleenor:parent-of:2supported Emily Symons Fleenor: parent-of Patricia “Pat” Fleenor Denekeclaim:paul-fleenor:parent-of:2confirmed Paul T. Fleenor: parent-of Patricia “Pat” Fleenor Denekeclaim:pat-fleenor:birth:1confirmed Patricia “Pat” Fleenor Deneke: birth · February 17, 1933 · Evanston, Illinois
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