I found surname in list of early pioneers if Randolph COunty WV at www.pioneerindex.com/surnames I am sharing this because the sorces are out of print & unpublished. Take care, Brenda --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

Thank you very much, can't believe that both Boswell's and Maxwell's great books on Randolph County are indexed here, they are hard to find.Thanks again, Rose brenda lane <[email protected]> wrote: I have - on the early times of Randolph County WV will share the source if you are intereted. Happy Hunting, Brenda --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lesher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/307.2 Message Board Post: I see you have John Lesher Born: 1863 Wis. My father in law was Holly Forest Lesher Born 1912 WV - Died 1985 Michigan. His parents were John Wesley(Lesley) Lesher Born/died unknown and Ollie Sylvania Lane Born/died unknown. I have been trying to find info on John and Ollie with no luck do they sound familiar. Picture enclosed of John and Ollie and children Holly, Rufus, Benjamin, Everett, Joey and Estie????? Lesher

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/307.1 Message Board Post: I have just begun this whole process but we have found that David Lesher is a great (not sure which yet) grandfather of mine...also my fathers name now passed down. I have decendents from Casper, David, D.S, Cecil and Cecil Jr. I am still working on getting started in this but I believe we must be related as well somewhere down the line:)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lesher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TGw.2ACEB/311.1 Message Board Post: try this web starts with Johannes Lescher/Locher http://users.legacyfamilytree.com/EvaGremmert/2/23543.htm Happy hunting Rose Purvis-Lesher

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/257.1.1 Message Board Post: John Lesher of Berks (the Tulpehocken area) was in the Sixth Battalion 1st Co. Hiedelberg Brigade where he was Captain under Colonel John Patton. There is additional information available in the History of Berks County Pennsylvania in the Revolution from 1774-1783 by Morton L. Montgomery.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TGw.2ACEB/294.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, no.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/259.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I have Jacob's father John Michael as serving in the War of Independence, but no further info. He is not to be confused with the "Oley Forge" Capt/Col. John Lesher who had no male grand children. My records for Oley Forge John are as follow: In the Revolutionary War, John left his farms and forge and enlisted, being attached to Col. Hunter's First Pennsylvania Battalion. Another record has him as a Captain in Colonel John Pattons regiment, 1776, also appointed Commissioner of Supplies for the Continental Army, January 20, 1778. He is listed in the DAR records as having fought in the Revolutionary War.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/259.2.1 Message Board Post: Is this John Lesher a Captain in the 6th battalion?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/257.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for Captain John Lesher of Berks Co PA who was possibly in the 6th battalion. It may be a relation according to DAR but I don't know how.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/294.1 Message Board Post: would you have any information on Christian Lesher,his family,William and Margaret/ Helinda,came to Cincinnati, Ohio, from Pennsylvania ?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/54.82.93.109.110.118.119.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't have a source listed. Both were from messages on the web and I have no primary source associated with either. I strongly suspect one of those sources was transcribed from the other. The best I have seen is a "minimum age" or "maximum age" calculated from census age ranges. The marriage I have is from Maryland Marriages which is a web compilation for which I could find no specific source and which looks like a fused collection (which appears to have been quoted twice with same date in messages). I'm working on the census records of Lesher/Lusher and Coffman/Kaufman from Maryland foreward. Violet Gadd Coonts in "The Western Waters" uses the spelling Lusher with regard to Jacob so there must be one early Randolph record that uses that spelling. Lusher appears to be used by the George line and by the Milton-Melker individual in Henry's line. Also I have found both a George Coffman and a John Coffman in Maryland records which seems to support that spelling transition occurring in Maryland. All the Kaufman or Kaufmann or Kauffman spellings relating to Maryland appear to derive from a Lutheran minister that was probably trying to be "pure German." Names around Baltimore, that may be direct emigrants seem to use both C and K variatnts. And also tending in this direction are the Caufman and Coofman and Coppman spellings in western Maryland records. Then also, all that went to the Valley of Virginia (Shenandoah) and to Kentucky seem to have stabilized on Coffman. This spelling transition seems to parallel the Hochwaerter, Howarter, Hovatter changes. Several researchers have claimed that Christopher made the change after coming to Randolph (Barbour), but clearly Jacob who went to NC and then AL made the change to Hovater so there was no one left from that family to use the earlier (older) spellings (all others known by that name were daughters). The Lutheran minister in Elizabethtown and Frederick appears to be the only one that elected to use Hochwaerter spelling in the U.S. The Pennsylvania variations appear to be phonetic variations around Howarter and Howerder. Modern Europe all seem to use either Howarter or Howärter (German & Austria).

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/54.82.93.109.110.118.119.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't have a scorce for my date.What dates do you have and from what scorse? We may have talked about this. I also have the email [email protected] We have talked in that email account also about the Leshers. Thanks, Joan Wyatt You can see I am a bit behind on this email addy.

Dear Lesher researchers. I'll be in Salt Lake City for a week doing genealogy research from Thursday (5-19-05) through the following Thursday (5-26-05). If any of you would like to drop me a note on your current "wall," I'll try to keep and eye open for you. Very best. Roy Lesher

Dear Lesher researchers. I have recently retired and can now devote more attention to our list and Lesher research. Thanks to two of our members I now have a few copies of the Lesher Newsletter which has not been published for many years. I will certainly be making those available on request in the near future. Please hold up your requests just a bit until I get our permissions squared away. I have written the publisher, Don Lesher in Florence CA for permission and also to solicit his participation. I have also requested space in Rootsweb for a Lesher page and just received that yesterday. Now, just as soon as I get a bit smarter, that will be available for you to post more permanent information. There are a number of guidelines and I'll copy them here for your information. 1. Upload no copyrighted material, except with permission and notice of that permission should accompany the document. 2. Upload no commercial material. 3, Commercial advertising banners will appear at the top and at the bottom of each Web page. These banners will require no programming by webmasters. Simply upload your Web site to RootsWeb and the banners will appear automatically. Please do not attempt to "defeat" these banners or your account may be closed. 4, Please notify RootsWeb of any changes in account ownership, email address, or project affiliation. 5, Freepages accounts may be used for publicly accessible material but not for online backup. Also, please do not upload GEDCOM files to Freepages accounts. They should be uploaded to _WorldConnect_ (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/) and then you can link to your files there. 6. If you wish to use affiliate links (those commercial links that pay you for the folks that click on them), you may only link to official MyFamily/Ancestry affiliates. To learn more about this program, visit _Ancestry's Partners Page_ (http://www.ancestry.com/home/partner/affiliate.asp) . 7 FreePages accounts may NOT be used only as a redirect to sites off of RootsWeb. 8 FreePages accounts may NOT be used for file storage - whether it is MP3 files, zip files, video files, huge images files, etc. Accounts that are being used in this manner will be closed. Reference: _http://accounts.rootsweb.com/index.cgi?op=show&page=freagree.htm_ (http://accounts.rootsweb.com/index.cgi?op=show&page=freagree.htm) Very best, Roy Lesher, List Administrator

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/154.155.159.232.1 Message Board Post: would your William lesher come from Pennsylvania, wife from New York ?

I too, would like to get the newsletter. My mother was a lesher. [email protected] Subject: Re: Lesher newsletter > Message Board Post: > > how would you get one of the newsletter, my husbands ggrandmother was a > Lesher ?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/276.1 Message Board Post: how would you get one of the newsletter, my husbands ggrandmother was a Lesher ?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/121.208.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't have anything presently on Harper or Emma. I have an Emma, but not near your location. Mary Lesher, unfortunately, is almost as common as Jacobs and Henrys, which does not make your search easy, but you have plenty of Leshers in eastern PA to work through! Don't overlook unusual spellings and errors in transcribed records (both are abundant with this basic name). Best of luck in your search. Nick