Greenbrier County WV Archives Obituaries.....Fleshman, Lydia Brown
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Nell Gwinn, <sissy@onslowonline.net>, April 1998

Obit of Mrs. Lydia FLESHMAN (nee Susan Olivia BROWN)

"Never was our sorrow greater by the loss of a dear friend and 
neighbor than when Mrs. Lydia FLESHMAN, the beloved wife of A. P. 
FLESHMAN, passed to her great reward on Sunday, Sept. 11, 1921 at her 
home in Sewell Valley this county.   From her sorrowing family the 
mainstay is gone, and from the people of her community a friend in 
need has been taken, her willing hands having redered some service in 
nearly every household within her reach, and her community feels a 
loss such as cannot be replaced. She never learned to say, "I cannot 
go", when a call came for her to minister to some neighbor in need or 
distress.   It may truly be said she loved her neighbor as herself.   
Mrs. FLESHMAN was a daughter of the late Tinsley BROWN, of Little 
Sewell mountain, and was born in July, 1869. She was married to 
Addison P. FLESHMAN, formerly of Monroe county, Nov. 15, 1884.   To 
this union were born 12 children, ten of whom are living, with 
nineteen grandchildren.   The children are Chas. K. FLESHMAN, of 
Thayer; Mrs. B. F. NEAL and Mrs. W. B. CROOKSHANKS, of Rainelle; Mrs. 
R. H. MARLIN, of Farmdale; Mrs. H. E. FOX, of Dennis; and Mrs. Charles 
NUTTER, who was widowed by the influenza epidemic of 1918, and Henry, 
Delbert, Ernest and Russell, who reside at home.   Besides her 
husband, children and grandchildren, she is survived by an aged 
mother, three sisters and four brothers, viz: Mrs. G. W. HICKMAN, Mrs. 
J. T. BRYANT, Clark, Samuel T., and Henry BROWN, of Rainelle; 
Augustus, of Farmdale; Mrs. Jas. W. SMITH, of Tincher, and one 
half-sister, Mrs. Wm. H. BURNS of Dawson.   She was a member of the 
Missionary Baptist Church for 34 years and was truly an exemplary 
Christian woman, who will be missed in her home, the church and in the 
community at large.   Mrs. FLESHMAN had suffered much, and had been 
under treatment in two hospitals, returning the second time from 
Baltimore on Friday before her death.

A Friend.

Funeral services were conducted at Sewell Valley Church by Rev. A. M. 
Frantz, after which the body of this good woman was laid to rest to 
await the call of the Master."