At my request for our kid’s school veteran’s day project, I asked my mother, Jennifer, to root out some family veteran’s photos.
This set is the oldest vet in the family (on the Flesher side, at least): Henry Flesher. Fought in the Revolutionary War. Obviously, this isn’t a “photo” since they weren’t invented then, but he founded the city of Weston, VA so he got “lithographed” at some point.

This is my uncle Jack Aden Williamson (Margaret’s brother) – your great-uncle and Liam and Jesse’s great-great. Likely at the very end of WWII, probably in the Philippines.

This is Bim’s sister Lois, a WAVE (Navy) in 1944. My aunt, so your great-aunt, and the kids’ great-great.
Here’s a bit of history about the WAVEs: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/prs-tpic/females/wave-ww2.htm

Lieutenant Harold W. Flesher at his wedding to Margaret Williamson Flesher, January 1, 1946. Dad’s in his marine uniform.
And so Jennifer concludes:
I know we had relatives on the Williamson/Parker/Inman/Cake side (Margaret and Gramma Gladys) that fought in the Civil War. Being as everybody was from Tennessee back then, some were on the Union side and some were Confederates. I don’t know if I can come up with photos (or even names) without some serious digging and asking my various Williamson cousins. I know this side of the family also had members who fought in the Revolutionary War; Gramma Gladys was invited to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, in fact (she didn’t). Gramma’s husband Jack was in WWI (Army, I think) but I don’t have a photo at hand.
All said ancestors on both sides are either turning in or applauding from their graves to have ended up with such a bunch of peacenik descendants!
Love this post…great history! Had forgotten Bim had a sister named Lois. Such an obscure name now but so historically imbedded on both sides. (Grandma Mary’s sister was also in the WAVES.)