West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 81 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: The FLESHMAN's of Monroe Coun [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: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:18:10 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <46b626a4.252bfd52@aol.com> Subject: BIO: The FLESHMAN's of Monroe County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Monroe County Oren F. Morton The McClure Company, Inc. Staunton, VA p 343-344 FLESHMAN The cousins, Peter, Michael, and Elijah, of German birth or parentage, came from Madison about 1804. But Elijah moved to Greenbrier, where there are many of his descendants. It is related that Peter, Sr., eloped to Madison with the daughter of a wealthy and aristocratic Englishman named Hoadly. The children of Peter, Jr, who died in 1814, were John (Nancy Dunn, 1812), Benjamin, and Elizabeth. John died in 1845 on the Christian Peters homestead, to which he succeeded as owner in 1807. C. -Fielden (1813-1861) (s)-James (1815-1876) (Sarah A. Young, 1864)-Emily, b. 1818 (John Tuggle)-Allen (1820-1909) (Jureta Riner)-Polly (1823-1902) (Floyd Spangler)-William (1825-1856) (s)-John (1828-1896) (s)-Lucinda, b. 1831 (Russell Barley). Fielden was a captain and died in the Confederate service. The only child of James is Robert F. (Sarah C. Peck, 1907) who lives on the old Peters homestead. Michael (Mary) died 1826: Thomas-John-Elijah (Margaret Hutchinson, 1811)-Mary (John Floyd, 1813)-Sarah (Jesse Cooper, 1807) Jemima (Ephraim Cook)-Abraham (1794-1859) (Rebecca Peters). Polly and Jemima went to Ohio in 1843. C. of Abraham: Elijah P. (1819-1907) (Romanza Harry)-Andrew L. 1821-1913) (Eliza McDaniel, Mary Nelson) C. of Thomas: Michael (Elizabeth Smith), Jacob H. (Rebecca Thompson), Jonathan, Clarinda, Ruth. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm