Famous WIV Frontiersmen-- Morgan and Bent
I blog for Lorraine Strieby so here we go. When she visited Morgantown, WV, for a book signing
her daughter wanted to see the statue of Zackquill Morgan and she told her the last time she
saw him he was at the Courthouse Square so off she went and she walked to the University
and thought the Mountaineer was him. Wow! Old Zack had disappeared from the Courthouse.
They looked up on Google and they think he is up on Spruce Street beside the Public Safety Building.
When Strieby wrote and illustrated her Mayor Molly McMole Series that is in discussion for film
and entertainment in Los Angeles, she was delighted in writing the fifth book in the
series WHY IS A SPY CALLED A MOLE? 2,000,000 plus hits on the internet. It is about my
ancestor, Christopher McMole, Master Spy, who helped Washington in the Revolution.
Strieby, as an artist, read that the sculptor and the fundraisers wanted him in a more
prominent place like near the Monongahela River. Zack when he was young fellow fought with
Washington in the French Indian War. Young Washington fought in this war with the British and
the Half King Tanacherian who he was very close to Half King called him
Conotocaurious and Washington proudly went by this name. This was a horrific war, but Washington
and Half King pulled it off with the British, Washington's troops, and Half King and his Seneca
Tribes. They won the war! Some historians believe this war was more important than the Revolution.
Here is the point, Zack not only fought side-by-side with Washington in this war and was a Colonel
in the Revolution, was a friend of Commander-in-Chief Washington, Washington visited him in Morgan Town,
Zack founded it. Now Morgantown, she guesses has forgotten all this. Why?
Famous people came from West Virginia, but maybe not as famous as Zackquill Morgan.
Now, where is his statue?...more to follow. Where is Charles Bent's statue? He might have
been more famous than Zack.
