George William Gantz

George William Gantz BIRTH 8 May 1814 Frederick County, Virginia, USA DEATH 16 Jul 1907 (aged 93) Red Hill, Wood County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Red Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery Red Hill, Wood County, West Virginia

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Children Photo Mary Ann Gantz Steel 1843–1916

Photo Miranda J. Gantz Boggess 1845–1917

Photo Eliza A Gantz 1846–1885

Photo Atwell Curtis Gantz 1848–1920

Photo Almira Frances Gantz Holliday 1850–1933

Photo Jacob Cornelius Gantz 1858–1937

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GEDCOM Note

The class at Red Hill was organized in 1852 by J. W. Perry from the Virginia Conference. The new organization was composed of the following charter members: George W. Gantz and his wife, Elizabeth Ann; Harvey Spencer and his wife, Mary Jane; Anna Dickson; and Mrs. Gantz, the mother of George W. Gantz. Mr. Gantz had just recently brought his wife, two children, and his mother over the mountains in a two horse wagon from Frederick County, Virginia to settle in Wood County. They had been members of a United Brethren Church in Frederick County, and were known to Rev. Perry. Mrs. Spencer was a sister to George Gantz. She and her husband may have journeyed to Wood County earlier, but probably around the same time as the Gantz family. Anna Dickson was a resident of Wood County. The class was made an appointment on Wood Mission where Rev. William Yerky was serving.
According to the minutes of the Virginia Conference of March, 1852, Rev. Eli McLaughlin (the original handwriting was McGloughtin) was assigned to Wood Mission. Rev. John Phillips was assigned Wood Mission in 1853, but was not retained the whole year. The late Rev. Fred Slaughter told the writer that Rev. Phillips went into Parkers burg and became intoxicated, and Mr. Gantz immediately discharged him.

George was a charter member of the Red Hill United Brethern church and donated the land for that cemetery. He came to Wood County in 1852 from Frederick County, Virginia via a covered wagon over the Northwest Turnpike (old route 50) and established the old Gantz homestead which was all of the land you can see from that cemetery when the trees are barren in the winter. The homestead farm was sold in 1947 after the barn burned from a lightening strike. The back part of the farm that J C Gantz farmed is now a land fill dumping site.