FLESHER:

All the Fleshers of Roane and Jackson Counties are descendants of the Flesher family, or families, settling prior to the year 1800 in the Monongahe]a Valley at places included in Harrison and Lewis Counties. From biographs of two Sons of the first family of this name in Jackson county, seen in Hardest's History, we gather that Isaac and Elizabeth (Bonnett) Flesher removed from harrison county and settled on Warth's Bottom in the year 1811, where to them were born William Bonnett Fleshed, in 1822, and Andrew Jackson, born on Mill Creek, January 2, 1827. William Bonnctt Flesher married Eliza McKown, born at Mill Creek, 1823, daughter of Gilbert and Lydia (Flesher) McKown, whose parents came to Spring Creek part of Jackson County in 1811. This is the Wm. B. Flesher who built the large water grist and flour mill and was himself miller and proprietor for so many years on Snad Creek, three miles out from Ravenswood.

Andrew Jackson Flesher, above mentioned, is the same who settled at Murraysville and there built and maintained for fifteen years the largest boat building and ship yard ever on the banks of the Ohio, in the decades of the War of Secession, "Civil War."

The other F]esher family of Jackson County is that represented by Major Henry Camden Flesher, born at Weston, Lewis County, western Virginia, 1835. He served as a volunteer in the Union armies of the Rebellion, rose to rank of Major, and appears to have come to Ripley as a young lawyer and on September 9, 1869 married Miriam F., daughter of Ephraim S. and Ruami (Wright) Evans, at her fathers home on Mill Creek below Ripley. Pauline, wife of Dr. Harlan H. Staata, some time a physician of the City of Spencer, founder of Spencer's first hospital, is the second daughter and third child of Major Flesher and his wife, Miriam F.

H. C. Flesher, Esquire, was many years a prominent practitioner at the Roane County bar, coming from his home below Ripley.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 519-520
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999