Matilda Delilah Spade

   Another name for Matilda was Tillie Spade.¹

   FamilySearch ID: K6MP-NPS.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1860 in Greenwood Twp., Juniata, PA. ³ The 1860 census recorded Matilda Spade, 17, listed at the end of all the people living in the household of farmer Philip Spade, 51. With him is May Spade, 29; Elias, 14; and twins Catherine A. and May A., 5 months. The post office was Millerstown.

2. She appeared in the household of John Heiser in a census in 1860 in Greenwood Twp., Juniata, PA. ^{4 4} The 1860 census recorded John Heiser, laborer, 23, living with wife Matilda, 17. She would be pregnant since her daughter Hannah Rebecca was born this year. John and Matilda were born in Pennsylvania. The post office is Millerstown. Next door is Tobias Heiser, 255, and his family.

Matilda married John Heiser on 11 Mar 1860 in , Juniata, PA. (John Heiser was born about 1838 in , , PA ⁵ and died on 29 Aug 1864.)

Matilda next married William Findley Fleming. (William Findley Fleming was born on 15 Mar 1838 in Menno, Mifflin, PA, died in 1909 in Grant Twp., Tama, IA and was buried in Reinbeck: Grant Twp. Cemetery, Tama, IA.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. Census in 1900 in Grant Twp., Tama, IA. ⁶ The 1900 census recorded Wm. F. Fleming, 62, living with his second wife, Tillie Fleming [nee Spade, she was previously married to John Heiser], 56. Both were born in Pennsylvania. With them are John's children by his first marriage all born in Iowa: John H., 29; Mary E., 25; Sarah J., 25; and Rebekah W., 24.