Ooops! My mail box re-set itself for HTML. Hopefully I have fixed it, so I am sending this message again. The local paper announced today that the Lewis County chapter of the DAR will honor my ancestor, Henry Flesher with a monument on the Lewis County courthouse lawn, to be placed in March or April of 2006. I have not seen the marker but Flesher came to the site of Weston in 1776 and apparently was 2nd Lt. in William Lowther's Company of militia in 1778. He was also at Buckhannon and Richards Forts, and according to local tradition stayed at his settlement through the whole war, never evacuating across the mountains. His nephew Henry Flesher II was in Michael Bowyer's Company in the 12th VA Continentals and testified to this in the 1820s in Pendleton County where by that time he (Henry II) was a major in the militia. Apparently BOTH uncle and nephew served on the West Fork as the nephew was in John McCoy's company, and made entry for a tract of land next to Lowther's at today's Jane Lew, WV. Best Regards David Armstrong Elkins, WV