Biography of Alva P. Fleetwood, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Fleetwood, Johnston, Lockett, Eblen. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access and not to be removed separately without written permission. ************************************************************************ Transcribed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: W. David Samuelsen - November 2001 ************************************************************************ An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902 by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 348 Alva P. Fleetwood Among the substantial and thrifty stockmen and agriculturists of Baker county mention must be made of the young and capable gentleman and esteemed citizen whose name initiates this paragraph and wh has wrought with commendable zeal and sagacity in the prosecution of his business enterprises for the time that he has been meeting the battles of life on his own account. The parents of our subject, John and Ann (Johnston) Fleetwood, came to this county and settled on the Burnt river in 1886. The father was born on February 18, 1829, in Indiana, and the mother was born on February 5, 1833, and they were married on April 1, 1852, in Bloomington, Illinois. They were both devoted members of the Christian church, and faithful in their lives to exemplify the principles of their Divine Master. On March 28, 1895, the mother, and two days later the father, was called from the walks of this life to the rewards of that which is beyond, and their demise was universally mourned, they being noble and true Christians who had won their love of their fellows. The subject of this sketch was born in Bloomington, Illinois, on July 31, 1874, and there spent the first twelve years of his life in assisting his father on the latter's farm and in attending the public schools. In 1886 he came with his parents to this county and attended the public schools and continued with his father on the farm until he was twenty years of age, and then he took up the realities of life for himself, embarking in farming and stock raising. He lives at the present time a half mile west of Hereford. The marriage of Mr. Fleetwood and Miss Lou F., daughter of Andrew J. and Patsy G. (Lockett) Eblen, was solemnized at Baker City on March 15, 1896, the Rev. Bell, of the Presbyterian church, officiating. To them have been born two children, Bruce Leondis and Cecil Lockett. Mrs. Fleetwood's father was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 18, 1829, and the mother was born on May 14, 1840, in Henderson county, Kentucky. They emigrated to Dell post-office on Willow creek in this state, via Kelton, Utah. On April 7, 1900, the father died in Baker City, but the mother is still living in Ontario, Malheur county, this state. It is pleasant to be able to state that the subject of this sketch is one of the most thrifty and respected of the younger class of business men that are in his section of the county and his uprightness and integrity and uniform geniality have won him hosts of friends and the confidence and esteem of all the community, and a bright future seems to stretch before him and his.