Monongalia County WV Archives Biographies.....Scott, Fannie And Phebe 
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Author: Virgil A. Lewis

/Murder of Fannie and Phebe Scott/.—The father of these girls lived at the mouth
of Pike Run. One day in August, 1779, the two daughters started for the meadows,
near the site of Granville, to carry dinner to laborers there. The father was to
accompany them, but being detained, the girls proceeded alone. Soon Captain
Scott heard the report of a gun. Crossing the river in all haste, and following
the direction of the sound, he ran rapidly up the path toward the meadows and
found the body of his murdered daughter Phebe. Fannie was missing. The father
supposing she was a prisoner, set out at once for Fort Pitt, and engaged a
friendly Indian to find out her whereabouts and ransom her. Before his return,
the neighbors had found the girl. Her body being too much decayed to be removed,
she was buried where she died.


Additional Comments:
"History of West Virginia" by Virgil A. Lewis 1889


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