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Sam M. Fleming (1908–2000) was an American banker, chief executive and philanthropist. As president and chairman of the Third National Bank of Nashville from 1950 to 1973, he financed many publicly traded corporations as well the country music industry.
When the Union Army captured Nashville in February 1862, Fleming fled with the state government to Memphis. [11] By early 1863, however, he had fled to Union territory in Kentucky . During this period, he wrote a humorous article mocking the state government's hasty flight from Nashville, which was published in various newspapers. [ 4 ]
Fleming and John is a musical husband and wife team, Fleming McWilliams and John Mark Painter, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.. The couple met while attending Belmont University in Nashville, and immediately began collaborating on songs.
The Cumberland Compact was signed at a Longhunter and native American trading post and camp near the French Lick [1] aka the "Big Salt Springs" on the Cumberland River on May 13, 1780, by 256 settlers led by James Robertson and John Donelson, where the group settled and built Fort Nashborough, which would later become Nashville, Tennessee.
After the Hundred Years War many Flemings migrated to the Azores. By 1490 there were 2,000 Flemings living in the Azores. Willem van der Haegen was the original sea captain who brought settlers from Flanders to the Azores. Today many Azoreans trace their genealogy from present day Flanders.
The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music (U of Georgia Press, 2015). Houston, Benjamin. The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City. (U of Georgia Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0820343273 excerpt; Klein, Maury. History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (UP of Kentucky, 2014). Lloyd, Richard.
Walter Lynwood Fleming was born on a plantation at Brundidge, Alabama, on April 8, 1874, the son of William LeRoy and Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming.Both his parents were born in Georgia and had migrated west with their families to Alabama in the ante-bellum period as cotton was developed as the area's commodity crop.
Succeeding Flemings were Stephen, (died c. 1213 –1214) and Baldwin (died 1260). Baldwin's son, Richard, is the first of whom some substantial information exists.