Bio: Thomas Lancaster Fleming, Caddo Parish La
Source: Chronicles of Shreveport and Caddo Parish, Maude Hearn O'Pry,
1928, 
Submitted by: Kay Thompson Brown

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                    ThOMAS LANCASTER FLEMING
The First Conductor of the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railway.
                                
                                
        THOMAS LANCASTER FLEMING was born in 1848 near Selma, Alabama. Spent
most of his youth in Bossier Parish, Louisiana.

                In 1878, Mr. Fleming became depot agent for the V. S. & P. at
Tallulah. At that time this road ran from  Vicksburg, Miss., to Monroe. He 
was given charge of a passenger train as conductor at intervals, and, in 1883,
was made regular conductor in charge of a passenger train running daily
between  Vicksburg and  Monroe.  During  the  summer  of 1883, he had the
distinction of taking the first regular passenger train through from Vicksburg
to Shreveport, upon the completion of the road to this point.

                 Mr. Fleming resigned from the employ of the railroad in the
early summer of 1887 nod died in September, 1890, in Dallas, Texas.