Francis Harold Fleming - Bothwell's Forgotten Baritone - Free Sheet Music This is the second in a series of locally obscure and old sheet music. The first piece was written for Laura Hespeler, Jacob Hespeler’s daughter in 1864. Lately I have been going through old sheet music again that has some connection locally. I make the sheet music a free download and thus bring musical history alive again. Francois Harold Fleming was born in Bothwell, Ontario, in 1882. He was the first to perform the Carl Majer composition Oh, Do Not Ask! Oh, Do Nor Weep! The music is copyrighted 1885. It is thought that Francois Harold Fleming began performing the piece in the early 1900s. The front cover of the sheet music states, “Introduced by America’s Armless Baritone”. The photo of Mr. Fleming on the cover confirms this statement. The next mention in the media of Mr. Fleming is of a performance in Windsor, Ontario at the Windsor Theatre on April 16th, 1916. According to the Windsor Star, "T