Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Harrison FLESHMAN

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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HARRISON FLESHMAN - is descended from pioneer families of their county, his 
grandfather entering the land in Rich Hollow by tomahawk claim, and his parents, 
who were John and Catharine (RINEHART) FLESHMAN, coming to the county when the
Indians still occupied it as a hunting ground. His father was born in Henrico 
County, his mother in Rockingham County, Virginia, and the former died in February, 
1857, the latter on the 25th of November, 1859. Harrison FLESHMAN was born near
Lewisburg November 11, 1812. and in Greenbrier County, December 17, 1834, he 
married Palmyra PERKINS, who was born near Chillicothe, Ohio, October 13, 1810.
Andrew and Elizabeth (POORE) PERKINS, who came to Greenbrier County in 1814, 
were her parents. Her father was born in this county April 23, 1792, and died 
in Indiana, May 10, 1856, and her mother, born in North Carolina, in 1794, died 
in Indiana, March 23, 1857. The record of the children of Harrison FLESHMAN and 
wife is: John Andrew, born November 18, 1835, lives in Frankford; Charles H.,
August 12, 1837, is a resident in Ronceverte, this county; VanBuren, February 
22, 1840, lives at Frankford; Miranda, born December 6, 1842, married John I. 
VIE, March 6, 1873, and lives in Charleston, this State; Virginia, born December
12, 1845, married William A. OSBORN, August 11, 1867, and lives in this county; 
Elizabeth M. C., born December 15, 1848, married G. W. BRANT October 11, 1877,
and lives in this county; Margaret Palmyra, born April 20, 1854, died February 
10, 1855. The sons were all Confederate soldiers, John A. and VanBuren in the 
Greenbrier Cavalry, enlisting in June. 1861, and Charles enlisting in the same
year in the 60th Virginia Infantry. Harrison FLESHMAN is one of the substantial
residents of Falling Spring district, where he owns a blacksmithing establishment,
and he has been for sixteen years a magistrate in the county. Himself and wife 
have been in the membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church for fifty years.
Frankford, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, is his post office address.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.