Wetzel Ancestry - A Tree of Life
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Fort Wetzel, erected ca 1769, 12 miles from Wheeling, WV on Wheeling Creek
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FORT WETZEL
John Wetzel and sons, Lewis, Jacob, Martin, John, and George came with the Zanes in 1769 and built a fort. The Wetzels became famous as scouts and Indian fighters. In 1787, the elder Wetzel was killed by Indians at Baker's Station.
A stockade fort erected about 1769 by John Wetzel and his noted sons, twelve miles from Wheeling, on Wheeling Creek, in what is now Sand Hill District, Marshall County.
From: West Virginia History
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misapope added this on 28 Feb 2011 krl60originally submitted this to Wetzell/Pollock Family Tree on 5 Sep 2009
| Date | 1/1/1997 12:01:26 AM |
| File name | Fort Wetzel sign.jpg |
| File Size | 51.81k |
| Dimensions | 400 x 300 |
| Linked to | WETZEL, Johann Martin; Wetzel, Lewis Ludwig; GEIST, Maria Barbara; Bonnett, Mary Catherine; WETZEL, Johann Martin WHETZELL Capt; Family: / |
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