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Pioneer History of Meigs County 35 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." FELIX BENEDICT, A PIONEER OF 1803 TO RUTLAND TOWNSHIP. He was the son of Elisha Benedict, and his wife, Jerusha Starr Benedict, and was born May 13th, 1767. He, with his father, Elisha Benedict, were living at Cooperstown, New York, when in October, 1780, they were taken prisoners by the British and Indians, then taken to Canada where they were kept prisoners for two and a half years. He married Clarissa Hubbell, daughter of Jabez and Sarah Hubbell, of Otsego county, New York, and coming to Ohio, settled on a farm near where the village of Rutland is now. He was an active and influential citizen, prominent in every interest for the promotion of civil, educational or religious advancement for the moral good of the neighborhood in which he spent his long life. He died October 29th, 1828. Mrs. Benedict died July 9th, 1849. Their children: Sarah, born October 25th, 1788, married John Dixon, died September 29th, 1835. Polly, died young. Euretta, born March 18th, 1793. She was married in 1821 to Cornelius Merrill. She died December 12th, 1880. They had six children, Mary, Robert, Luther, Harriet, Clarissa, and Augustus. |
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