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MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@aol.com
October 5, 1999
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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.
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