Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, Butler Co. W. H. FLENER, Butler County. In the early part of 1791-92, four Flener brothers emigrated from Virginia; two of them, Adam and another brother, settled in Kentucky, and the other two in Indiana, then the Northwest Territory. From these four brothers all of the name in Indiana and Kentucky have descended. William H. Flener was born in Butler County, Kentucky, December 28, 1836, and is the eldest of six children, born to Wesley and Caroline B. (Romans) Flener, both of whom were natives of Butler County and of German and English descent respectively. Wesley Flener was educated and married in his native county, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred December 25, 1880, in his sixty-fifth year. He and his wife were from early life members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he officiated for many years as a class leader. His father, Adam Flener, Jr., the grandfather of our subject, was a veteran in the war of 1812, having served under Gen. Jackson at New Orleans. William H. Flener received a limited common school education in youth, but has since acquired through his own efforts, an excellent practical business education. He was employed on the home farm until he was eighteen years old, after which he bought a partially improved farm on Indian Camp Creek in Butler County, Ky., upon which he remained some two or three years, when he bought another farm in the same neighborhood, upon which he remained another two years. He then bought an interest in his grandfather Romans' farm, upon which he resided about two years. Since then he has owned and lived upon several different places in the same neighborhood. In 1865 he commenced to learn the miller's trade, and has since that time been engaged in both the saw and grist-mill business for several years, most of the time in connection with farming in Butler and Ohio counties, Ky. In 1875 he bought the farm of 200 acres near Flener, upon which he now resides, a part of which he has since sold. In 1879 he was appointed deputy county clerk for that part of Butler County lying northeast of the Green River, which office he yet holds. He was merried March 9, 1855, to Elizabeth A. Kesinger, a native of Ohio County, where she was born December 13, 1834. Twelve children blessed their union, of whom - four sons and three daughters - are living: Comodore, Caroline B. Bratcher, John W., Survire, Ida M., Pleasant H. and Robert E. Mrs. Flener is and has been for many years a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Flener belongs to no church or secret order, but holds to the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republican. Flener Romans Kesinger Bratcher = VA Ohio-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/butler/flener.wh.txt