Perry 200 Honors Descendants' Families
The Perry
200 Celebration is showing their appreciation to those who built Perry's Great
Lakes Fleet and gave their lives during the Battle of Lake Erie...
A lot of
people are still unaware of the rich history that
The
War of 1812 is a big deal here, descendants of these brave American heroes were
recognized during the memorial.
The Perry
200 commemoration commission hosted a full days worth of events at the
This
was a separate event from the recent celebration of the anniversary of the
Today
honored those descendants' families....the brave people who built and protected
the fleet in
Six
family members were honored... These people could trace their roots back to
those who built the fleet or fought in the war.
Joyce
Savocchio, co-chair of the Perry 200 tells us this is
Alan
Fish was recognized at the ceremony... His great great great grandfather Benjamin
Flemming made a contribution to secure our freedom on the
