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John House, "Pioneers of Jackson County":
One account says that three brothers by the name of Warth came to the Colony in 1800 or 1801. The names Alexander, John and George are given. However, since Robert, a brother of John Warth, was killed by the Indians on Harmer Hill, Marietta, while the Warths were acting as scouts and guards for the colony, there at Fort Harmer, I conclude that four brothers in all must have come to this section.
Larkin's Pioneer History of Meigs Co, OH
THE WARTH FAMILY-COLONEL DAVID BARBER'S
LETTER, 1882.
"During the Indian war there came to the stockade in
Marietta a family named George Warth, his wife and two
daughters and five sons, namely: John, George, Robert,
Martin, and Alexander. They came from Virginia, brought
up in the woods and were all fine hunters. John and George
were employed as rangers, or spies for Fort Harmar. The
family lived in a log house on the first bottom between the
river and the garrison built by the United States troops for the
artificers to work in. George Warth married Ruth Fleehart,
and John Warth married Sally Fleehart, sisters to Joshua Fleehart,
and Robert Warth married a daughter of a French widow
named Lallance, who came from France with two children, a
son and this daughter, and who were in the stockade at the time
when Robert Warth was killed by the Indians. He left a young
widow and one child, Robert Warth, afterwards a noted
merchant of Gallipolis. The family were illiterate, but pos-
sessed keen, clear intellectual faculties, which were improved
in later years by whatever opportunities were afforded for
learning.
Mr. Paul Fearing taught John Warth the rudiments of his
education, which he cultivated so that at the close of Indian
hostilities, having settled on lands in West Virginia, Jackson
county, long known as Warth's bottom, he filled several offices
for the government and was a magistrate for a number of
years. He was also the owner of slaves. George Warth
owned a piece of land in Meigs county, on the Ohio river,
opposite the present town of Ravenswood, West Virginia.
He, with his brother John, carried the first mails from Mari-
etta to Gallipolis, in canoes. They went armed with rifles,
carried provisions for their journey, traveling chiefly at night
to avoid Indian encounters. George Warth was a hunter of
wild animals, his greatest success during life. He had a
family of sons and daughters-Robert Warth and Alexander
Warth, Clara, Sally, Hannah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Drusilla.
He lived and died in his cabin on the banks of the Ohio, a
poor man in what the world calls wealth, yet all of the hero
is due to his name, for brave and fearless protection of the
helpless in times of peril.
The son, Robert Warth, married Mary Johnson, and lived as a
farmer in Jackson county, West Virginia, and died in
Ravenswood.
Alexander Warth was a boatman, married in Louisville,
Kentucky, and after the death of his parents, within two weeks
of each other, his sisters, Sally, Rachel, and Drusilla, moved to
Louisville.
Rebecca Warth was married to Daniel Lovett, a river man,
and they moved to Kentucky.
Hannah Warth was married to Bartholomew Fleming and
lived and died in Ravenswood. Mr. Fleming bought the
placed owned by Mr. George Warth, valued chiefly for the
landing and ferrying opportunities.
Clara Warth was unmarried-died and is buried by the side
of her mother in the Pioneer graveyard in Great Bend,
Meigs county, Ohio."
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West Virginia Pioneers
1775 - 1838 (~ 63 years)
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