Note: An obituary included in "Ed Berridge's Scrapbook" suggests that George Ludwig came from Germany in 1780 and that his wife was a descendant of Patrick Henry.
Note: George Ludwig Sheets came to Gallia County in 1782 In 1789, one George Sheets owned 193 acres of land in Virginia. In 1790 Leonard & George Sheets sold a large tract of land in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Over an extended period of time several members of the family went from Pennsylvania to Virginia and some to Ohio and Indiana.
George himself went to Indiana in 1838 where he lived with a son Joseph Sheets and later died.
Note: Elijah Fowler, Brice Henry, John Henry, George Sheets, Leonard Sheets, William Sheets, George Waugh and Gory Waugh plus Henry, John and Solomon Waugh. Guyan was not a township at that time.
Note: Claudie Sheets gave me a rough pedigree of the Sheets family, which indicated that George L. Sheets (born 1759 in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania) was the father of John. H., Joseph, William, Anna, Leonard, and George.
Biographical Notes
Note: Some say that George Ludwig Sheets was born in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania; however it definitely says "Baden" [which is in the western part of Germany called the Pfalz or Palatinate] on the 1870 census taken in Mooresville, Morgan Co., Indiana, where George aged 86 was living with his grandson John Sheets, presumed son of Leonard. Perhaps this is another George Sheets. He would have been born about 1774, which makes him a generation younger than George Ludwig.
The 1870 census has a question which asks if either or both parents are foreign born. In this case, both John and George says "yes," parents are foreign born.
Military Service
Note: Revolutionary War and War of 1812
George was in the Battle of Point Pleasant in the Revolution. He was also in the War of 1812. In November 1834 George Sheets applied for a pension. He was 75 years old and lived in Harrison Twp., Gallia Co., Ohio. Pension application was signed by the following witnesses: John Swindler, Cornelius Halley & William Carder, Clergyman.