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, USA
married to Elizabeth Ann Parsons
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.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39447133/george-william-gantz
