Flaming, Henry A. (1845-1928)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1928 Jun 20 p. 4

Birth date: 1845 Nov 23

Henry A. Flaming

Friday morning, at fifteen minutes past seven, grandfather H. A. Flaming passed away at the home of his children, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Vogt, after five weeks of severe suffering from a cancer of the stomach. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. The church choir was in it's place and rendered a number of appropriate selections. Rev. J. M Friesen of the K. M. B. church was the first to preach and he spoke in the eGrman [sic] language. Then followed a sermon in the American language by Rev. D. F. Straus. Rev. J. J. Wiebe made the final remarks and read the obituary and closed the services with prayer. Interment was made at the M. B. cemetery and was conducted by Rev. J. W. Vogt.

Henry A. Flaming was born November 23, 1845 in the village Schardau, South Russia, where he also spent his youth. In 1862 he became affiliated with the Gnadenfeld church and five years later, 1867, he was united in marriage with Helen Fast. In 1873 he, with his family immigrated to America and became one of the pioneer settlers of Marion county, Kansas. During this time he became thoroughly converted and was baptized and taken into the K. M. B. church. In 1875, march 20th, he lost his wife by death and he was left alone with five children. On June 20, 1875 he was joined in holy matrimony with Mrs. Kornella Friesen and in 1888 they transferred into the M. B. church. In 1893, he with family moved to Washita county, Oklahoma, and homesteaded. Here he again went through all the hardships and trials of the pioneer settler but with perseverance and hard labor, conditions improved and he was financially able to retire from active farming after the children grew up. Mr. and Mrs. Flaming spent a few years in California and then moved back to this community and settled in Corn where they lived together for fifteen years. In June, 1927, death also claimed his second wife with whom he had lived fifty-two year sand to which union twelve children were born. After the death of Mrs. Flaming Mr. Flaming made his home with his children, also making a short visit to his brother in New Mexico. From this visit he came home fatigued and ill and soon took to bed. His case was diagnosed stomach cancer and to which he succumbed after five weeks of suffering. His deliverance, for which he so ardently prayed, came Friday morning, June 8th, at fifteen minutes past seven. He reached an age of eighty-two years, six months and fifteen days. He was the father of seventeen children of which six have passed on before; grandfather of seventy-nine children of which fifteen have departed; great-grandfather of sixty-one children of which seven have departed. He also has three brothers living. They mourn his departure but not as such that have no hope, for they all want to meet hm in Heaven. — Washita Co. (Okla.) Enterprise.