Re: John and Ollie
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John and Ollie
Rosemary Lesher 6/28/04
The name Holly Forest Lesher sounds familiar, but I cannot find my most recent searches of Census Enumerations to be sure my memory is not playing tricks.There were two lines of Lesher in WV that I know of and both were lines descending from brothers George and Henry, children of Jacob Lesher & Mary Ann Coffman.In both families the name is sometimes given as or transcribed as Lusher.One was principally associated with Roane county and the other with Greenbrier county.Perhaps this will provide you some new directions to look.Meanwhile I will try to find the transcription I made that makes this name sound familiar.
I am not a direct descendant of this family, but an uncle insisted that we were related "to the Leshers through the Coffman family" and they did live very close together during the first half of the 1800s in Randolph Co., (now) WV.Both sons moved "away" and only the sisters remained (mostly in Taylor county) and thus the name was lost to this area by about 1850.
Nick Sturm
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Rosemary Lesher 8/20/05
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