Col. Barber's letter was then read, he being present,:
"Harmar, April 27th, 1881.
Mrs. E. L. Bicknell:
Your favor of the 18th inst. was duly received. In reply
thereto I copy from Hildreth's Pioneer History. He gives the
names of families in and near Fort Harmar in the time of the
Indian hostilities. Among them, George Warth and wife and
two daughters and five sons. Catharine Warth, a daughter
of Mr. George Warth, Sr., was married to Joseph Fletcher, a
young man from New England, and settled in Gallia county.
He was a surveyor of the county, and a Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas. He died in 1844.
Pickett Marvin, a young man from the Eastern States, mar-,
ried Polly Warth, a sister of Catharine Fletcher. They settled
in Gallia county, where Mr. Marvin served several years as
Magistrate.
The sisters, Ruth and Sally Fleehart, who were married to
George and John Warth, brothers, were noted for their skill
with the rifle. It was said that Sally Fleehart could bring
down a hawk upon the wing, or a squirrel from a tree top as
readily as her husband, John Warth. These women had been
brought up on the frontier and possessed all the intrepidity
and courage of women of that class. This ends the record
in Col. Barber's letter. In regard to Mr. George Warth, he was
one of a party who accompanied Governor Return J. Meigs on
his perilous journey down the Ohio river. He was less fa-
vored by fortune than brother John; nevertheless, services to
his country should be appreciated. Silas Jones.
At the pioneer meeting of 1883, a committee was appointed
to procure a suitable monument to be placed at the grave of
George Warth.
