named Lallance, who came from France with two children, a
son and this daughter, andwbo 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.
