West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 76 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: William Preston PYLES, Greenb [SSpradling@aol.com] #2 BIO: Humphrey B. KEYES, Greenbrier [SSpradling@aol.com] #3 BIO: Andrew Emerson JOHNSON, Green [SSpradling@aol.com] #4 BIO: Price COFFMAN, Greenbrier Cou [SSpradling@aol.com] #5 BIO: David M. FLESHMAN, Greenbrier [SSpradling@aol.com] #6 BIO: Mathew Nelson HUMPHREYS, Gree [SSpradling@aol.com] #7 BIO: The FLESHMANS of Anthony Cree [SSpradling@aol.com] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from WV-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to WV-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the WV-FOOTSTEPS-D list administrator, send mail to WV-FOOTSTEPS-admin@rootsweb.com. ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 05:29:52 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <5528b523.25287c10@aol.com> Subject: BIO: William Preston PYLES, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 248-250 WILLIAM PRESTON PYLES. William Preston Pyles is a successful business man of Ronceverte. In June, 1917, he was elected a member of the city coun-cil. Throughout the Greenbrier valley he is known as "the automobile man." This designation is merited, for Mr. Pyles was the first man to bring into Greenbrier county an automobile which was to stay in the county, and for ten years he has been actively engaged as a salesman of automobiles. The first car was a Rambler, a small, two~passenger, one-cylinder roadster, which Mr. Pyles bought for his own use. In comparison with more up-to-date cars, it would now be regarded as a curiosity. He became agent for the sale of this car, but his success has been in the sales of the Ford and the Maxwell. For several years he held the agency for the sale of the Ford in both Greenbrier and MonrQe counties, and in the past three years he has sold and delivered more than four hundred and fifty automobiles. He is now agent for the Ford, also the Maxwell in nine counties of this State. On May 30, 1900, Mr. Pyles married Mary Estelle Steuart. of Charleston, W. Va., daughter of H. Bryson Steuart, now of Montgomery, and Sadie (Steuart) Allen. She has two brothers, Ed Steuart, of Glen Jean, and Charley Steuart, of Portsmouth, Ohio. After marriage, Mr. Pyles was in the jewelry business at Glen Jean until 1906, when they moved to Ronceverte. Their children now living are Roy Emerson, Thelma Margaret and Elva Virginia. The eldest, Lee Addison, died at Ronceverte when seven years old. Other relatives of William Preston Pyles in Greenbrier county are Mrs. Maggie Fullen, a sister, wife of Henry B. Fullen, and their children-Guy, Harry, Fred, Gladys, Hallie, Clyde and Fay; also 0. C. Hutchison, a cousin, of Ronceverte, salesman for the International Harvester Company, who married Emma Allen, of Forest Hill, and their children-Von, Neel, Robert and James Maxwell. Another cousin is M. A. Pyles, principal of the Alderson High School. W. 0. Pyles, a brother of William Preston, married Roena Mann, a daughter of Newton Mann, of Spring Creek, this county. They live in Logan county; their children are Glenn and Eva. Mr. Pyles's more distant relatives in Greenbrier county are too numerous to mention, and in good old Monroe, where he was born, November 8, 1876, his relatives are counted by the hundreds. Near the beginning of the last century, in the Sweet Springs valley, Monroe county, lived two brothers, Conrad and Jacob Pyles. It is thought their father was a Jacob Pyles and that he made settlement there. Conrad died in this valley. Jacob married Sarah Baker, a sister of John, Joseph and Frederick Baker, their father being Frederick Baker, of Germany, who was naturalized in Monroe in 1812. Jacob, Jr., bought a farm on the public road between Salt Sulphur Springs and Lilydale, and he and his wife lived there the rest of their lives. This farm has been the property of some member of the family ever since and for near half a century has been the homestead of Henry M. Pyles, their grandson and father of the subject of this sketch. Children of Jacob, Jr., and Sarah: George I. (Elizabeth Arnott), John, Allen, Polly, who married George McCoy and moved to Ohio, Elizabeth (Lewis Spangler), Ellen (Henry W. Arnott). John and A~ien died soon after their return from the army. Children of George I. Pyles and Elizabeth Arnott, his wife: Henry M., Lilydale; Sarah, deceased; Addison A., Morrill, Kan.; John W., Pence Springs; Mary A., wife of A. M. Hutchison, Forest Hill; Margaret J., wife of Richard McNeer, Marie; George W., Hamlin, Kan.; Martha E., wife of J. P. Fisher, both deceased; Emma, deceased, who married R. W. Hill, Morrill, Kan. George I. Pyles, grandfather of William Preston, served in the war between the States. He was captured at Winchester, September 19, 1864, and died at Point Lookout, January 15, 1865. Henry M. and Addison, who were in the army, also, returned to the old home, which was a farm on the knobs about three miles distant from the farm of Jacob Pyles. This farm is known as "the old home." It is owned bv William Preston Pyles and is occupied by his brother, Grover C., and his wife. Henry M. Pyles, father of the subject of this sketch, after his return from the war married Margaret Elizabeth Wikle. The children born to this union were as follow: Alonzo E.; Maggie E., wife of Henry B. Fullen; Ada Ellena, wife of James Kessinger; Welmington Other, a farmer now in Logan county; William Pres-ton, Lizzie, single; George Edgar, who works for the Ford Motor Company at Detroit, Mich.; Minnie, wife of Russell Canterbury; Grover Cleveland, a farmer living on "the old home place." Margaret Elizabeth Wikle was a daughter of William Wikle and a granddaughter of George Wikle, who was born in Augusta about 1776 and came to Monroe about 1797, or perhaps not until 1803, at which date he purchased two pieces of land. His house stood close to the residence of Michael Murphy, a mile west of Salt Sulphur. It was also a place of worship, for he was a zealous Methodist and esteemed his duty to the church to be of importance. His ancestry were of Holland-German. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 05:32:25 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <364db229.25287ca9@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Humphrey B. KEYES, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 250-251 HUMPHREY B. KEYES. John H. Keyes, a well known farmer and blacksmith in Tuckahoe, Greenbrier county, was the father of Humphrey B. Keyes, the subject of this sketch. He married Elizabeth Pine, a resident of Monroe county. Their eldest son, Janies, was taken prisoner in the late war between the States and died on his way home. Joseph R. another son, served throughout the war in Edgar's Battalion. Gashrnan, the youngest son, died in Covington, Va. Humphrey B. Keyes was born in January, 1882, went to school in Tuckahoe district a few terms, and in later years officiated as school trustee. On the date that President Garfield was shot Mr. Keyes married Susan Gardner. She was the datighter of John Gardner, who lived at the head of Little creek. After they married, a residence was taken up where they now reside, on a farm consisting of one hundred and forty-six acres, and where they have since lived. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Keyes, as follow: Lula, who married Edgar Lynch and now living in North Dakota; Gertie, who married Henry Lynch, postmaster; Clarence, James, Zora, Bessie, Amy, Lillian and Florence, the last named now dead. Mr. Keyes lives a simple life, but is a successful farmer and one of Greenbrier's representative citizens. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 05:41:37 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Andrew Emerson JOHNSON, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 251-253 ANDREW EMERSON JOHNSON. Andrew Emerson Johnson was born December 11, 1861, the sixth child of Thomas John and Minerva (Hinchman) Johnson, his wife. Thomas Johnson was of Scotch-Irish descent on his father's side, eldest son of Barnabas Johnson and grandson of Robert Johnson, who migrated from the north of Ireland into the Colony of Virginia in 1767, settling first in Augusta county, and later permanently in what is now Monroe county, in the present State of West Virginia. Settling on the headwaters of Wolf creek, Robert Johnson possessed himself of a tract of good land, built himself a block house as refuge for himself and his neigh-bors, became the man of his neighborhood. He and his wife, Kate Dorne, became the parents of thirteen children, seven sons and six daughters. The names of the sons were Jacob, Barnabas, William, Samuel, Robert, Caleb and James. Four of these migrated to the West. All of these sons became men of substance and character, worthy of their sturdy parentage. Barnabas, the grandfather of A. E. Johnson, was a man of the highest character and of fine business abilities, accumulating unusual wealth, notwithstanding physical maladies which harassed him during the whole of a long life. Thomas, the eldest son of Barnabas, and the father of A. E. Johnson, was also a man of the highest integrity and a successful farmer and grazier of large means. Minerva Hinchman, mother of A. E. Johnson, was a woman of the firmest Christian character and of unusual intelligence. Her mother, who has been called the "smartest woman in the Greenbrier valley," a woman of fine character and great intellect, was of Scotch-Irish and Huguenot descent, having been born to her parents, William Sims and his wife Margaret (Machet) Sims, but two years after their immigration into what is now Monroe county, West Virginia, from the county Antrim in Ireland. On her father's side, Minerva Hinchman was of English, Hugnenot and Dutch stock, being a lineal descendant of Capt. Billy Vincent and Rosa Bumgardner, his wife. The Hinchmans, Minerva Hinchman's own generation and the preceding ones, were sturdy, resourceful, achieving people. Thomas and Minerva Hinchman Johnson became the parents of seven children, as follow: Cornelia Agnes, who married George H. Lewis; Sarah Amanda, who married Dr. B. F. Irons: Wellington Barnabas, John William, Thomas Cary, Andrew Emerson and Mary E. A. E. Johnson was educated at Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, and spent his early manhood in Monroe county. Later he bought the James Mann farm in Greenhrier county, near Fort Spring, and there made his home. Endowed with a superior mind, discriminating judgment and indomitable energy, he becanie one of the most successful farmers in West Virginia. He was a man of progressive ideas as well as large information, and active in every organization for the betterment of the agricultural and pastoral industries. As a banker Mr. Johnson was prominent, and in other business enterprises an organizer and leader. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and one of its most liberal supporters and faithful workers. At the time of his death he was president of the Bank of Greenbrier, at Lewisburg; president of the Ronceverte Ice and Storage Company; president of the Farmers' Home Insurance Company; member of the auditing committee of the Farmers' Banking Company of Union; president of the board of directors of the Lewisburg Female Institute; member of the Greenbrier Presbyterian committee on home missions; chairman of the Laymen's Missionary Movement in Greenbrier Presbytery; ruling elder in Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church and teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class (faithful and regular in his attendance and a capable teacher) He was a good neighbor and kind friend, the head of a Christian home and a devoted husband and father. He died at his home near Fort Springs, December 1, 1915. On October 20, 1885, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Cora H. Alexander, of McDowell, Highland county, Virginia. She survives him with six children: Robert S., A. Emerson, Jr., Thomas S., Henrietta E., Anna D. and Eva A. Miss Anna is preparing herself for a career of trained nurse in Philadelphia. One daughter, Edith, preceded him to the grave. He is survived also by three brothers: Wellington, of Fort Spring; John W., of Alderson, and Rev. Dr. T. C. Johnson, professor of Theology in Union Seminary, Richmond, Va., and two sisters: Mrs. Amanda Irons, of Pickaway, Monroe county, and Mrs. Henry Lewis, of Greenbrier county. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 05:48:37 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Price COFFMAN, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 253-255 PRICE COFFMAN. The Coffman family have been residents of the Fort Spring district very many years. This branch of the family are descendants of Christian Coffman, born August 2, 1780, and died near Lewisburg, July 22, 1852. He married Anna Wenger, born near Edom, Va., June 12, 1788. She died November 13, 1861. She was a descendant of Christian Wenger, who emigrated from Palatinate, a province in the northwest of France, in the ship, "Molly," arriving at Philadelphia, September 30, 1727. Ten children were born to Christian and Anna (Wenger) Coffman, of whom Daniel, the fifth child, born August 23, 1818, was the father of Price Coffman, the subject of this sketch. He fell from a cherry tree and died June 29, 1871. On May 23, 1841, he was married to Catherine Hedrick, born April 18, 1820, died April 18, 1907, and their children are: David, born June 27, 1843, died September 4, 1847; John, born June 8, 1845, Carbondale, Osage county, Kansas; Price, of whom later; Mary Elizabeth, born August 15, 1851, married Mr. Brackman, Carbondale, Kan; Jacob Samuel, born May 22, 1854; Clark Phelps, born December 10, 1855, Carbondale, Kan; Charles Nixon, born December 15, 1859, Summersyille, Nicholas county, West Virginia; Harvey Lewis, born November 24, 1861, Coffman, Greenbrier county; Leni Leoti, born April 1, 1866. She married Mr. Hem, of Blakers Mills. Eight members of this family are still living, nor has there been a death in the family for seventy years. Price Coffman, who is living on the old homestead near Fort Spring, was reared a farmer and has been a successful one during all his life. He was educated for a teacher, but never taught school but one term, his attention having been directed to stock raising and agricultural pursuits chiefly. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and is an ardent supporter of Christian work. He married Miss Mary Van Stavern, daughter of Benjamin Stavern, November 22, 1871, and to this union were an interesting family of thirteen children brought up around the fireside of the present home, built the year following the marriage. Four of these children are graduates of Marshall College, and are teachers in the public schools of Greenhrier county. Walter Coffman is the eldest son and lives at Madison, Kan. His first wife was Miss Eva Butterfield. Martin lives in Richmond, Va., and married Miss Ida Simpson; Emma has been tic usekeeping for her father since the death of her mother; Charles lives at Salmon, Idaho; Elsie married J. H. McVey, now dead. Three children, Roger H., Eva Cole and John H. Their son, Roger, finished free school at eleven years and is in his junior year in the Ronceverte High School; Lillie is a graduate of Marshall College and has been a teacher in the fifth and sixth grades in the Lewisburg schools during the past six years. Olen is a lumberman. He is an expert on veneer logs and his services in that line are valuable. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of the Modern Woodmen, and is also a Mason. He married Miss Grace Donivan, and to this union were born three children: Olen B., Jr., Cameron and Mary Grace. He lives in Lewisburg, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and is district lay leader of Lewisburg district, Baltimore conference; Howard is single and is a twin brother to Hubert. He married Morrus Iowa Ramsey and is a bookkeeper; Harvey is a ministerial student at Randolph Macon College and has a bright future. He was a successful teacher and took the orators medal for the first year in college; Carrie is a teacher of the seventh grade in the Lewisburg public schools, where she has been employed three years; Mabel is also a graduate of Marshall College and teaches in the Ronceverte public schools; Ursula is a student in her senior year at Marshall College. The Coffman family have always maintained a high reputation for all that distinguishes the Virginian. while the present genera-tion is particularly noted for those finer characteristics possessed only by the well educated and the highly cultured. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 05:53:29 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: David M. FLESHMAN, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Pbcahontas county and afterwards locate(l permanently on the headwaters of Muddy creek. That fami 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, 1). 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. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 05:59:07 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <6890dc25.252882eb@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Mathew Nelson HUMPHREYS, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 256-258 MATHEW NELSON HUMPHREYS. Mathew N. Humphreys' grandparents were John and (Robinson) Humphreys, who came from Tyrone county, Ireland, in 1790 and located in Monroe county, West Virginia. By this union were Alexander, John, Mathew, and Robert. Mathew, horn April, 1811, married Louisa Patton, born July 14, 1818, the daughter of Tristrem and Jane Patton, in the year 1838. By this union were seven boys: Alexander R., Mathew N. and Robert M., twin brothers, Tristrem P., Oliver B., Henry W., and Augustus B.; two girls, Isabelle J., who married Alexander Rob-ert Jackson, and Elizabeth M., who married Moses Coffman. Alexander R. Humphreys married Miss Mary Boyd, of Texas, April 3, 1875. Mathew N. married Miss Mary C. Rodgers, November 7, 1872. Tristrem P. married Miss Rosa Gibson, October 7, 1875. Oliver B. married Miss Lillian White, September 28, 1898. Henry W. married Miss Lizzie Burdette, November 25. 1885. Augustus B. married Miss Della Hogsette. April 6, i88i. He died October 13, 1881. The subject of this sketch was born at the mouth of Monroe draft on November 14, 1843. His boyhood days were spent on the farm, but when only a youth he entered the Confederate army and spent three years, participating in a number of battles and spent several months in prison. Mr. Humphreys entered the army as a volunteer and joined Company D, first commanded by his brother, Alexander, and later by Capt. Frank Burdette. This company belonged to Edgar's battalion. In the battle of Lewisburg his twin brother, Robert, fighting by his side, was killed. When his company retreated he refused to leave the dead brother, whose body he was carrying from the field when he was captured by the enemy. He was taken to Camp Chase, where he suffered the horrors of prison life for four months, after which he was taken to Vicksburg and exchanged. The intention of the Confederate officers around Vicksburg was to enlist the exchanged soldiers into service in Louisiana and Texas. Mr. Humphreys, not agreeing to this arrangement, passed through the lines, being regarded as a mere boy, and wended his way back home. He reported intentions of the Confederate leaders to the authorities at Richmond, who ordered the return of the Virginia soldiers to serve in their own State. After the war he taught school several terms, then engaged successfully in farming. He married Miss Mary C. Rodgers, third daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Coffman) Rodgers, on November 7, 1872, and located in Greenbrier county, West Virginia, near Organ Cave. To these were born Minnie S., D. Clark, Prank E., Harry C., Sallie R., Ira D., and Gertrude, all of whom are living at this writing. D. Clark Humphreys, eldest son of Mathew N. Humphreys, is located on a farm near Organ Cave. He married Miss Maggie E. Miller, September 4, 1901. Their children are Charles Milton, Mary Janice, and Beulah Ellen. Minnie S. Humphreys and Ira D. Humphreys are on the farm at home. Frank E. Humphreys located in New York City in 1904 and ever since has held an important position with the elevated railroad of that city. Harry C. Humphreys graduated from Marshall College State Normal in 1904, then entered the University of West Virginia. where he graduated, receiving his Bachelor degree. Having served as district supervisor of schools for three years, he entered the University of Wisconsin, where he received his Master degree. He is now at the head of the department of education at Athens Normal School. Sallie R. Humphreys graduated from Marshall College in 1906 and has taught successfully in the city schools of Charleston, W. Va., and Madison, Wis., where she is now located as teacher. Gertrude, the youngest, graduated from Charleston (W. Va.) High School in 1914 and is now spending her second year in the University of Illinois. The death of Mathew Nelson Humphreys occurred at his home at 9.30 A. M., Saturday, December 18, 1915. He was a kind husband and father, a man of solid, substantial qualities, was sincere in his love for his kindred and friends. He was public spirited and identified himself with the best interests of his county, particularly things pertaining to education. For thirty-three years he was secretary of the board of education of his district. For thirty-odd years he had been a member of the Salem Presbyterian Church and for the last seventeen years a ruling elder. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 06:04:27 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <35f6f02c.2528842b@aol.com> Subject: BIO: The FLESHMANS of Anthony Creek, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 258-259 THE FLESHMANS OF ANTHONY CREEK. Michael Fleshman came to Greenbrier county in 1798 and settled on a farm afterwards owned by Benjamin Franklin Fleshman, and where he died on March 25, 1883, in his ninety-seventh year. The farm consisted mostly of bottom land and lies on Anthony's creek, at the mouth of Little creek. It consisted of two hundred and fifty acres and on it was the oldest grist and saw mill in Green-brier county. Mr. Fleshman married Elizabeth Sydenstricker and she died on that farm in August, 1839, aged about forty-four years. The farm was sold, but soon after repurchased by B. Fleshman. From that union were born five sons-Andrew, Benjamin Franklin, Johii Lewis and Addison, and two daughters-Nancy and Elizabeth. Andrew Fleshman married Miss Elizabeth Lipps and from this union were born four sons and five daughters: Alexander A.. William H., John W., Mary J., Amanda F , Rebecca, Phoebe L.. and Louisa V. The parties were married on Anthony's creek and died in 1862. Benjamin Franklin Fleshman was a soldier in the Confederate army in the Civil war. He repurchased the old homestead after it was sold. Andrew A. Fleshman, now living in Monroe county, was born and reared in Greenbrier county. In the year 1870 he married Mary J. Gibson, of Monroe county. and from this union were born three sons and three daughters: James, Ella, Andrew Walter, John Thomas, Rosa Adda Mamie, Virginia and Bertie Elizabeth. Andrew Walter Fleshman, a well known jeweler of Ronceverte, was formerly a resident of Lewisburg, where he still owns a valuable residence, and a garage, which he operated for some time. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm