it had been used as a hearthstone. It had this plain inscription:
"Sacred to the memory of Colonel John Niswonger, who de-
parted this life July 13th, 1821, aged 78 years and 4 months."
No person now living can find the place of his grave.
Peter Niswonger was a comrade of George Warth in the
hunting trips of the years 1811 to 1814, when Mr. Niswonger
had a still-house for making whisky and peach brandy, built
by a spring of excellent water, on Lot 182, Ohio Company's
purchase, afterward owned by Nehemiah Bicknell. The
spring was always called the "still-bouse spring." His name,
in connection with that of Elias Nesselrode, is used in an
account of an elk discovered crossing the Ohio river below
Sandy creek, bv Andrew Anderson, who, bein,- on the Ohio
side of the river, saw Niswonger and Nesselrode pushing a
canoe laden with salt upstream to whom he called "to head
off the elk," which had reached their side so near that they
threw a log chain at his horns, which so enraged him that he
capsized their canoe with the men and the salt and escaped to
the woods of Virginia.
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
