Revolutionary War Service:
23 Apr 1783, the Court of Montgomery County, Virginia Ordered that Joseph Simmons, John Flannary, Ephraim Ozburn and Andrew Lofton of Captain Osburn's Company served on board the armed vessels in the Bay of Chesapeake unless they go to Clinch and serve the present tour of duty under Captain Ozburn (OBK B-P 172).

Served in Revolution under Capt. Enoch Osburn in Montgomery Co. Militia 1781

Listed in DAR Patriot index(Centennial Edition)Part 1 Sol VA
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1. Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Title: Ancestral File (R)
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Repository:
2. Author: Hattie Byrd Muncy Bales, Laningham, Anne Wynn, with Annotations by Frances B. Lockwood.
Title: EARLY SETTLERS of LEE COUNTY, VIRGINIA and ADJACENT COUNTIES VOLUME II
Publication: Media, Inc., Printers and Publishers Greensboro, North Carolina 1977 Media, (c) 1977 Microfilm 92
Note:
Copy of pages for Burtons, Hobbs and Zions on file in the BR Johnson Family Archives:
Salt Lake City, Utah Family History Library Call Numbers: US/CAN BOOK AREA 975.5735 D2l With annotations in US/CAN FICHE AREA 6094109
Repository: Page: Page 573

In the 1790 Census of Wilkes County, North Carolina, Morgan District, John Flanary is shown with a wife and six children: 1 male over 16; 3 males under 16; 4 females. According to this all of John & Phoebe Flanary's children were born in North Carolina prior to 1790.

According to Semple’s History, Elder John Flanary was the leading man in the organization of and became pastor of Deep Spring Church in Lee County.

John Flanary was a Baptist Minister. From the Minutes of the Yadkin Baptist Association meeting held at Eatons Meeting House in Rowan Co., North Carolina on August 28 - 30, 1790, he is shown as a delegate of the North Fork Baptist Church located in Wilkes County, North Carolina. After a selling 100 acres of land in Wilkes County, North Carolina in 1796 John Flanary moved to Lee County Virginia.

In 1797 the Deep Spring Church was formed with John Flanary, Elder as a leader in its organization. During the period 1825-1833 John Flanary was serving as a minister in the Turkey Cove (Dryden) area of Lee County, Virginia. He was a former pastor of the Deep Spring Church in Lee County, Virginia. On 2 Mar 1833, he was called to be the pastor of the Oven Fork Church in Harlan County, Kentucky. John Flannary owned, at least, three slaves: Robert, James and Polly. In 1834, his slaves Robert, James and Polly were received by experience and baptisms.

1815, found John Flanary, Sr. with assets with a total value of $1,750, consisting of: one farm at the Deep Spring, 200 acres, having thereon one dwelling house of wood, two "story", 22 feet by 18 feet, one kitchen, one barn, one corn house, two stables, one grist mill, one story, and one "pare" of stones, valued at $1,000; three slaves valued at $750.

John & Phoebe (Boggs) Flanary had (6) six children:

1. Daniel, b. ca. 1766, North Carolina, most likely the eldest; d. 1818-1820
2. Martha 'Patsy', b. 20 Dec 1779, North Carolina; d. 25 Dec 1852, Lee County, VA; m. Edward " Neddy" Pennington.
3. Thomas, b. 1781-2, NC.
4. Elijah, b. abt. 1785, NC; m. Ann or Nancy Benham.
5. Rebecca, probably the youngest, b. 29 Apr 1787, NC; m. 1802-1804, Lee County, VA to Henry Cox.(Info by Judy Parsons Smith<judys-space@geocities.com>

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Deed from John Flannery to Richard Henson; oath Micajah Penington, Esq(31Jan 1797)

John Flannery witnessed Deed in Russell County Virginia 28Jul1795 p6

On 12 September 1810, in Lee County, Virginia, John Flanary, minister of the gospel(13), married David Fee and Lucy Noe. Lucy, born about 1793, was the daughter of John Noe and his wife whose name is believed to have been Charlotte(14). At first, David and Lucy remained in Virginia where their first child, Jane, was born about 1811.

“John Flannery, pastor of the Deep Spring Church in Lee County, Virginia” from Wm H Young