THE GARRETT NAME

Our Garrett Family story begins with John Garrett who was born about 1713, place unknown, and died about 1740 in North Carolina. He married, spouse unknown, before 1733.

THE BENJAMIN GARRETT FAMILY

John's son, Benjamin Garrett was born about 1733,in Surry, North Carolina. He moved from there to Patrick county, Virginia when a young man. Some years after marrying Nancy Grimes, probably in Patrick County before 1783, he and his wife moved to Cabel, West Virginia. This is now Wayne County. Benjamin died in 1817 in Wayne County and Nancy followed him after 1820.
Benjamin and Nancy had the following children: Jane, William, George, Benjamin, John, Joseph, Isom, Zilpha, Nancy and Judah.

THE WILLIAM GARRETT FAMILY

"William Garret was born in Grayson County, Virginia. He grew up and was married October 8, 1792 to Winnafred Bolt, daughter of Capt. John Bolt and a Quakeress, in Patrick county, Virginia. He and his wife removed to Fairfield Township, Highland County, Ohio about 1810-1812, and took up farming. They afterwards moved to Walnut Creek, Madison Township, where William died in 1825. His will/estate was recorded as E-1825 Highland county C233.C239.

On the 4th of October, 1809, a number of church people on the Rattlesnake Fork of Paint Creek, wished to be known by the name of Rocky Springs (Presbyterian) Congregation. It was formally organized on April 10, 1810 and among the first elders was William Garrett.

William and his wife reared a family of fourteen children some of whose names were John, Charles, Lewis, George, Nancy, Jessie, Rebecca, Ophelia, Mary, Polly and Betsy.

THE JOHN GARRETT FAMILY

John Garrett was born in 1790, and at the age of twenty-two possibly fought in the War of 1812. In 1818, he married Sophia Baldwin, daughter of Jesse Baldwin and Hanna Thornberry Baldwin.

THE WALTER BALDWIN GARRETT FAMILY

One of the sons of John and Sophia Baldwin was named Walter Baldwin Garrett who was born in Fayette County, Ohio in November 1821. He grew up there and, in 1848, married Matilda Abigail Fishback of Madison county, Virginia. The family removed to Madison County, Ohio in the fall of 1865, and then to a farm of 320 acres in Traro, Madison County two years later where they raised a family of eight sons and four daughters.

Walter died in Feb 1904, aged eighty-two, and is buried in West Addition of Winterset, Iowa, Cemetery. Matilda, at the age of sixty-six, preceded her husband, dying of heart failure in June 1896. One of their daughters, Clara Ellen, was my grandmother. She married Harry Dewey Burghardt in 1887.