Ohio County WV Archives Biographies.....Becham, Family 
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Author: Virgil A. Lewis

/The Becham Murder.—A family named Becham settled on Little Wheeling creek in
1783. A few years later, probably in 1787, two sons of the household went one
October day in search of the horses. A small party of Indians were on the watch.
They caught the horses, and when the boys approached made them prisoners and
made for the Ohio at Grave creek. Four miles from the river they encamped.
During the night they tomahawked and scalped the boys and left them. In their
haste their work of death was not complete, neither of the boys being killed.
Thomas, the eldest, started for help. Arriving at Grave Creek Flats he was
kindly cared for and a party despatched to search for his brother. But before
aid reached him the savages had returned and completed their murderous work.


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


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