"looking for the Fleck Heritage
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Im looking for my dad,s family and there is supposed be a book out there called the Fleck Heritage.,and he came from Minnesota. His dad,s name i think was Alfred Fleck 11-2-1891-4-1983,and his dad was Cyrus Fleck from Tippacanoe, Ind. I am also looking for my mothers dad,s family Oral Glenn Fowler 1893-1922. from around Iowa City, Ia. Any information would be appreciated.
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flossy789 on 2013-08-03 12:38:02I may be able to help you, Alfred Fleck was my grandfather and so was Oral Glenn Fowler. I have family trees on several sites I also have heard of this book, but never could track it down, so I just did my own family tree, I have been researching it since 2007 also
wylfa on 2015-08-08 14:47:26My grandfather's name was also Alfred Gustav Fleck, born in Kaukauna, Wisconsin on 02 NOV 1885. The parents of Alfred G. Fleck (my great-grandparents) were Gustav Henry Fleck (03 FEB 1855 - 03 DEC 1923) and Louisa M. Wiese (20 AUG 1855 - 18 AUG 1920).
Below are the obituaries for Friedrich and Maria, the parents of Gustav Henry Fleck. It may be possible that these two are somehow related to the Flecks in Minnesota or Indiana. I have never seen the book called the Fleck Heritage but my cousin, Peter Fleck, who lived in Sheboygan, Wisconsin during the 1990s told me that he heard of other Flecks from Sheboygan, WI had ancestors who were circus performers.
Feb 13, 1890
De Pere News
Mrs. Mary Fleck [Maria Sophia (Eisman) Fleck, born 02 FEB 1821 in Saalfeld, Germany] died at her home in the town of Lawrence [Wisconsin], Sunday afternoon [09 FEB 1890], of heart disease. Deceased was 69 years of age and leaves a husband [Frederick Fleck] and four full-grown children: three sons [Gustav H, Fleck, Charles M. Fleck and August A. Fleck] and one daughter [Emma (Fleck) Hendricksen], to mourn her loss. The funeral took place from the German Lutheran church Tuesday afternoon and was largely attended. The interment was in Cady’s cemetery [Lawrence Cemetery].
Dec 1, 1892
De Pere News
Mr. Frederick [Friedrich] Fleck [born 26 SEP 1813 in Schwarzburg, Rudolstadt, Germany] died at his home Thursday afternoon [24 NOV 1892], aged 79 years after a lingering illness. Mr. Fleck was an old settler, he having opened up the place where he subsequently built a log house, the abode of pioneer days, in which he reared his family, four children [Gustav, Emma, Charles and August] surviving him. The funeral was held Sunday Afternoon from his late home and was attended by a vast concourse of mourning friends. Interment was in Cady Cemetery [Lawrence Cemetery].