Stillman Carter Larkin, The Pioneer History of Meigs County (1908)

A county history, read in the archive.org full text for the Hatten research (research/hatten/Hatten_Philbrick_Marvin.md, October 2026). Its accounts of the Warths are Col. David Barber’s letters of 1881 and 1882, read at meetings of the Meigs County Pioneer Society.

• p. 114, Barber to Mrs. E. L. Bicknell, Harmar, 27 April 1881, copying from Hildreth’s Pioneer History the 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 … Pickett Marvin, a young man from the Eastern States, married 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.”
• pp. 33-35, Barber’s letter of 1882, “The Warth family”: “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.” John and George “carried the first mails from Marietta to Gallipolis, in canoes.”
• p. 113: “Mr. George Warth was the real pioneer. His grave [is] known, but has never been marked by a stone.”