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


/The Grice Family Massacre./—In 1775, Colonel Shepherd erected a fort at the
forks of Wheeling creek. Among the families finding refuge here was one named
Grice. After the attack on Fort Henry, in 1777, it was determined to abandon the
place. Grice decided to return with his family to their improvement, some two
miles distant. Near the mouth of Peter's run, the family was attacked by
Indians, who killed, as they supposed, all except one boy, who was carried away
captive. When the victims were found, Rachel, a girl of eleven years, was alive.
She always insisted that the man who scalped her had light hair and blue eyes.


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


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