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- [S1061] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;), * WHETZELL.
Martin Whetzel/Wetzel (8) facts
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Family Data Collection - Individual Records about Martin Wetzel
Name: Martin Wetzel
Spouse: Mary Coffield
Parents: John Wetzel, Mary Bonnett
Birth: Shenandoah, South Branch Cedar Creek, VA
1758
Marriage: 1784
Death : Oct 1829
Source Citation: Birth year: 1758; Birth city: South Branch Cedar Creek; Birth state: VA.
Source Information: Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
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Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. (8) facts
Edmund West, comp. (2) facts
Family Data Collection - Births [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. ......... (8)
- [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Shook Family Tree, Owner: lgsap, Last viewed: Martin Wetzel, Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for Martin Wetzel WETZEL Martin Mary Ann COFFELT 1757 - 1829 1762 - 1836 Martin - PVT. VA. Rangers in Revolutionary War Battles of Pt. Pleasant and Ft. Henry
Martin Wetzel: Infamous death defying Indian Hunter/Scout and Man of the Frontier
Martin, older brother to Lewis was the oldest son of Captain John Wetzel and was born in Dec 1757 in Rockingham County, VA. In 1769 he came west with his father's family and in 1774 served in Dumnore's War. In 1777 Martin was at the siege of Wheeling and aided in burying the dead after Foreman's defeat. He was captured in April 1779 and adopted into Cornstalk's Shawnee family. He escaped from a ban of Indians by pretending to go to Kentucky to steal horses. Sometime in 1781 he returned to Wilderness Road to his home near Wheeling. There he married Mary Coffle. During the remainder of his life he was much employed in scouting and claimed to have been in 22 skirmishes without receiving a wound. [50]
A braver man had never lived than this Indian hunter. No Tomahawk was more deeply dyed with blood than his. His father was killed by Indians in a canoe with Martin hiding on-board and being able to escape. Martin became remorseless in his revenge. Martin Wetzel had been on an expedition with John Madison (brother of the president) when John was killed by Indians. Wetzel was able to escape but only to later have been captured by the Spanish in New Orleans and then accompanying Lewis and Clark for a short period up the Missouri River. Wetzel died in 1818 after a lingering fever and is said to have died near Natchez, Mississippi. [51].
(from)
Conquering the Wilderness, Fran k Triplett, Thomas Nast, Felix Octavius Carr Darley; Northwest Publishing company; 1888
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lgsap added this on 17 Jan 2011
1000pastlives originally submitted this to Nauth-Kearins on 7 Mar 2009
- [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online., Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for Mary Coffield
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