Mary Jane Mullins Fleming -- Pioneer Lady

Clintwood, Virginia

Pioneer Lady

1815 -- 1893

In 1829 Mary Jane Mullins, at age fourteen, was the first pioneer lady

to settle here at Holly Creek (now Clintwood)with her father

John Mullins and three younger brothers. Four years later

she married John Jack Fleming and raised twelve children

for sixty four years until her death she made this area home.

 

This monument was erected by Mountain People and Places in front of the Jonnie B. Deel Library in Clintwood, Virginia.

Photo by Martha M. Short, October 1998.

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