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Paul T. Fleenor
Great-grandfather of Michael
- Years
- 1913–1990
- Surname line
- Fleenor
- Living status
- Deceased
- Evidence
- supported
Events
| Date | Event | Place | Status | Claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | birth | Iowa | supported | claim:paul-fleenor:birth:1 |
| between 1934 and 1950 | migration | — | supported | claim:paul-fleenor:migration:1 |
| April 1, 1950 (census day) | residence | Englewood, Colorado | confirmed | claim:paul-fleenor:residence:1 |
| December 12, 1990 | death | — | supported | claim:paul-fleenor:death:1 |
Relationships
Parents
- Otis Oscar Fleenor confirmed
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claim:otis-fleenor:parent-of:1
- Anna Velora Smith Fleenor confirmed
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claim:anna-smith-fleenor:parent-of:1
Partners
- Emily Symons Fleenor confirmed
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claim:paul-fleenor:spouse-of:1
Children
- Joan Fleenor Facchinello confirmed
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claim:paul-fleenor:parent-of:1
- Patricia “Pat” Fleenor Deneke confirmed
- On the tree
claim:paul-fleenor:parent-of:2
- Paulette [Fleenor] Turner confirmed
- On the tree
claim:paul-fleenor:parent-of:3
- Jim Fleenor confirmed
- On the tree
claim:paul-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:paul-fleenor:name:1 | name | Paul T. Fleenor Joan's obituary confirms Paul T. Fleenor as her father; his memorial, the 1950 census and the Denver obituary index use Paul T. or Paul. His Iowa delayed birth record expands the name to Paul Theodore and names Otis Fleenor and Anna Smith as his parents. The public display retains the independently repeated Paul T. form while the evidence ledger records the fuller indexed identity. | supported | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:paul-fleenor:living-status:1 | living-status | deceased Deceased. Two tier-2 sources state it: the Denver Public Library obituary index records a Rocky Mountain News notice for Fleenor, Paul T. on 17 December 1990, and the 2023 obituary of the woman he married in 1975 says they were married until his death in 1990. His Find a Grave memorial (tier 3) gives 12 Dec 1990, Littleton Cemetery. Supported rather than confirmed: no death certificate or obituary text has been read. | supported | 2 · official-transcript | accepted |
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claim:paul-fleenor:birth:1 | birth | birth · 1913 · Iowa His Find a Grave memorial (tier 3, metadata only) gives born 1 Jan 1913. The 1950 census schedule (tier 1) records him as head of the household, aged 37 on a sheet started 14 April 1950 and born in Iowa, so he was born between about mid-April 1912 and mid-April 1913 — consistent with the memorial's year, and his birth state is now a record fact at state precision. The event still carries the year only (T-RES-004, 2026-10-07): a 1 January date is a common index placeholder and the day must come from a record (question:paul-fleenor+emily-symons:marriage-and-dates). The schedule names no parents, so question:paul-fleenor:parentage is unchanged. | supported | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:paul-fleenor:death:1 | death | death · December 12, 1990 His Find a Grave memorial (tier 3, metadata only) gives died 12 Dec 1990, Littleton Cemetery, Block 14, Lot 74, Grave 7B, next to Emily. Two tier-2 sources corroborate the year and the week without giving the day: the Denver Public Library's 1990–1994 obituary index records a Rocky Mountain News notice for “Fleenor, Paul T.” on 17 December 1990, and the 2023 obituary of the woman he married in 1975 (not on this slice, and not named here) says they were married “until his death in 1990”. The day remains memorial-only; the interment-ledger extract ends in the 1980s and does not cover him, and no death certificate or obituary text has been read (question:paul-fleenor+emily-symons:marriage-and-dates). | supported | 2 · official-transcript | accepted |
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claim:paul-fleenor:residence:1 | residence | residence · April 1, 1950 (census day) · Englewood, Colorado The 1950 census population schedule (tier 1, original image; Colorado, Arapahoe County, incorporated place Englewood, E.D. 3-6, sheet 13) records Paul as head of the household on census day, aged 37, married, born Iowa. Two further children of the head, both living, are on the sheet and are not entered; the house number, road, occupation and hours columns are on the sheet and are not copied. | confirmed | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:paul-fleenor:migration:1 | migration | migration · between 1934 and 1950 · Evanston, Illinois → Englewood, Colorado Joan's obituary (tier 2) states that her family moved to Colorado during her middle-school years and gives no year; Patricia's obituary places her February 1933 birth at Evanston and Joan's own birth there follows in January 1934, and the 1950 schedule (tier 1) fixes the far end by placing the household at Englewood on census day. The leg therefore runs Evanston to Englewood between 1934 and 1950, with no intermediate point and no source naming Paul individually in the move. The range is deliberately not narrowed and no conflict is opened over the year (T-RES-005, K-1): the only sharper evidence on the schedule is a living person's detail the public dataset may not carry. | supported | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:paul-fleenor:spouse-of:1 | spouse-of | spouse-of Emily Symons Fleenor The 1950 census population schedule (tier 1, original image) records Emily as "Wife" of the head, Paul Fleenor, which states the relationship directly and is what confirmed requires (T-RES-005, S-1). Joan's obituary names Paul and Emily as her parents; their Find a Grave memorials (tier 3) are linked as spouses and share Littleton Cemetery Block 14, Lot 74 (Graves 7B and 8). The marriage itself stays undated: no marriage record has been read, and Patricia's February 1933 birth bounds it to before 1933 (question:paul-fleenor+emily-symons:marriage-and-dates). | confirmed | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:paul-fleenor:parent-of:1 | parent-of | parent-of Joan Fleenor Facchinello Joan's obituary names Paul T. Fleenor as her father; the 1950 census schedule (tier 1) records Joan as a "Daughter" of the head, Paul Fleenor, and a tier-2 obituary of 2023 names Joan among "Paul's children". FamilySearch supplies a matching parent group. | confirmed | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:paul-fleenor:parent-of:2 | parent-of | parent-of Patricia “Pat” Fleenor Deneke The 1950 census schedule (tier 1, original image) records Patricia as a "Daughter" of the head, Paul Fleenor, and the 2023 obituary of the woman he married in 1975 names "Paul's children, Joan Faccinello, Pat Deneke (deceased)" among them (tier 2); Joan's obituary names Patricia as her sister. Stated directly by tier 1–2 evidence, with no open conflict. | confirmed | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:paul-fleenor:parent-of:3 | parent-of | parent-of Paulette [Fleenor] Turner | confirmed | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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claim:paul-fleenor:parent-of:4 | parent-of | parent-of Jim Fleenor | confirmed | 1 · original-record | accepted |
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Conflicts and open questions
Question
question:paul-fleenor:parentage(open)Which original record images can independently confirm the newly indexed Fleenor-to-Hanks chain? Authenticated indexes now name Otis Fleenor and Anna Smith as Paul Theodore Fleenor's parents, Dollie Despain and John Henderson Smith as Anna's parents, Martha Beans and Milton Despain as Dollie's parents, and Mahala Hall and William Beams as Martha's parents. Wilson/Davis and Genetic Lincoln research continue the line through Nancy Hanks Hall to Joseph Hanks and Ann Lee. The old Nancy Hanks DeSpain → Dollie route is superseded, not part of this path.
Next: Open and archive the underlying Iowa record images for the four FamilySearch indexes, identify the exact 1850 Beams household schedule, and seek probate, Bible, or civil evidence naming Mahala as Nancy Hanks Hall's daughter. Until those checks are complete, publish the resulting relationship to Abraham Lincoln as likely second cousins six times removed and strongly supported research—not a fully confirmed pedigree.
claim:otis-fleenor:parent-of:1confirmed Otis Oscar Fleenor: parent-of Paul T. Fleenorclaim:anna-smith-fleenor:parent-of:1confirmed Anna Velora Smith Fleenor: parent-of Paul T. Fleenorclaim:john-smith:parent-of:1confirmed John Henderson Smith: parent-of Anna Velora Smith Fleenorclaim:dolly-despain-smith:parent-of:1confirmed Dollie Despain Smith: parent-of Anna Velora Smith Fleenorclaim:milton-despain:parent-of:1confirmed Milton Despain: parent-of Dollie Despain Smithclaim:martha-beames:parent-of:1confirmed Martha Ann Beames: parent-of Dollie Despain Smithclaim:william-beams:parent-of:1confirmed William Beams: parent-of Martha Ann Beamesclaim:mahala-hall:parent-of:1confirmed Mahala Hall Beams: parent-of Martha Ann Beamesclaim:levi-hall:parent-of:1supported Levi Hall: parent-of Mahala Hall Beamsclaim:nancy-hanks-hall:parent-of:1supported Nancy Hanks Hall: parent-of Mahala Hall Beamsclaim:joseph-hanks:parent-of:3supported Joseph Hanks: parent-of Nancy Hanks Hallclaim:ann-lee:parent-of:3supported Ann Lee: parent-of Nancy Hanks Hall
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
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