Greenbrier County, West Virginia         Biography of DAVID M. FLESHMAN

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History of Greenbrier County 
J. R. Cole 
Lewisburg, WV 1917 
p. 255-256

DAVID M. FLESHMAN.

On the farm near Blue Sulphur where the last Indian raid was said to have 
been made in Greenbrier county lives D. M. Fleshman, a large farmer and stock 
dealer and a descendant of one of the oldest families in the county. The 
parental ancestor of Mr. Eleshman made a visit to Greenbrier county in a very 
early day on a stock trading expedition from Pocahontas county and afterwards 
located permanently on the headwaters of Muddy creek.  That farm is now in 
possession of J. C. Fleshman. Daniel Fleshman, father of David M., died there 
about thirty-two years ago at the age of fifty years.  He was the father of 
three children. the subject of this sketch being the eldest.
David M. Fleshman was born January 9, 1854. He graduated from the State 
Normal College at Concord. W. Va., and taught school for ten years. He was 
reared a farmer, and during those years of work in the school room followed 
agricultural pursuits also becoming interested in raising blooded stock in 
the meantime. He is today one of the large landowners of Greenbrier county. 
Under the name of Fleshman & Sons he is extensively engaged in buying and 
selling live stock, Josie J., Charles N. and Kenna W. Fleshman, his three 
sons, being the junior members of the firm.
On October 20, 1885, D. M. Fleshman married Annie J. Piercy, daughter of 
Joseph and Elvira (Tuckwiller) Piercy, and they took up their residence on 
the old Fleshman homestead. They moved to their present place of abode in 
1897. It is a large farm of five hundred and thirty-five acres, but only one 
of several tracts owned by Mr. Fleshman. The children born to this union not 
named above are two daughters, Mabel V. and Pauline.  None of the children 
are married.