William F. Fleck - was born in Wayne county, Ohio, January 21, 1842; was married at Antwerp, Paulding county, Ohio, November 28, 1866 to Emily S. Hill. The following are their children: Ovil Waite, born December 26, 1873; Millie Hayes, August 24, 1876; William Nelson, December 27, 1878; the two first are deceased. Mr. Fleck’s wife was born n Defiance county, Ohio, October 27, 1846. He settled in this county in 1854, and has been Clerk of Antwerp corporation two terms. His parents were Henry and Rebecca (Bowers) Fleck, settlers in this county in 1847. His wife’s parents were Daniel McFalen Hill, born in 1809, and Pamelia (Snook) Hill, born in 1810; they settled in this county in 1834. William F. Fleck enlisted in company G, 14th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, April 22, 1861, fro three months; was discharged August 13, 1861. During this time, he served in West Virginia, and engaged in the battles of Phillippi, Cheat River, etc. He re-enlisted in the same company and regiment, August 26, 1861, to serve three years, W. H. Eckles commanding company, and James B. Steedman commanding regiment. He served in Kentucky, Tennessee, Northern Mississippi and Alabama; was in a number of skirmishes, but his regiment lost few men until the battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19 and 20th, 1863. From the brigade of which Mr. Fleck’s regiment formed a part was fired the first gun in that hard-fought battle, and Company G, going into the fight with forth-seven men, ran, file and musicians, lost thirty men, and of those taken prisoners, all but three were wounded. During the fight the regiment had six color-bearers shot. Mr. Fleck’s tent-mates, T. B. Harris, W. A. Tanner and J. Q. A. Conard, were wounded the first day of the fight; Conard was taken prisoner, and died at Andersonville. After the battles of Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, etc., where the Northern forces were victorious, Mr. Fleck was one of twenty men belonging to Company G to re-enlist for three years, or during the war. Re-enlisting December 14, 1863, after thirty days’ furlough he returned to the army, participating in the Atlanta campaign, which terminated in the battle of Jonesboro, September 1, 1864. He was with Sherman’s forces in their celebrated march to the sea, and in the subsequent march across South Carolina, terminated in the capture of Raleigh, North Carolina, where he heard of President Lincoln’s assassination. Here, also, he heard that Lee had surrendered. Mr. Fleck’s regiment then marched to Washington, by way of Richmond, Virginia. Having been reviewed at Washington, they were ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, there mustered out to date July 5, 1865, receiving pay and final discharge at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Fleck gave four years and three months of faithful and constant service in the war. His present business is farming and stock raising. Address, Antwerp, Paulding county, Ohio.