THE PARKERSBURG NEWS, Sunday, November 11, 1979
“Legendary in Grandview”
Clines Traced to Revolutionary Soldier
By; Diana McMahan of the News Staff.

According to Hardesty’s History of Monroe County, Benton Township, “George Cline....and his wife came from Germany, settled in Pennsylvania, was a soldier in the Rev. War, and after the settlement of Marietta, moved west and settled near what is now called Grandview, Washington County Ohio.”

The entire Cline family, George and Susannah Cline and all their children, came to Grandview Township area about 1795; All their children stayed in the area, making contributions to the settlements in northeastern Washington county and bordering Monroe County. George Cline, Sr. Died 14 April 1801, and was buried in an unmarked grave at the mouth of Mill Creek, just north of Matamoras. Susannah Buck Cline, after George Cline’s death, married Anthony EVANS in 1808. After her second husband’s death she lived for many years with her son George at Jerico until her death in 1840. She is buried at Jerico Cemetery.

It is believed that George Kline, Sr. Lived at the Fort Georges, which was also his home about the time that his brother Jacob Clyne established Fort Kline and his home about five miles south west of Fort Georges.

Another Gen. Anthony Wayne conquered and signed a peace treaty with the Indians in 1794 many of the pioneers in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia continued their westward migration by crossing the Ohio River and by moving into new land thrown open for settlement. About 1795 George Cline, Sr. Took his family and settled near Grandview, Wash. Co. Oh., where the family lived for ten years. On April 14, 1801 the father, George Cline, Sr. Died and was buried in an unmarked grave near the north of Mill Creek above New Matamoras, Oh. In 1938 Mrs. Clarence R. Sloan representing the Marietta Chapter of the D.A.R. looked up his military record and had marker place in his memory in the Mound Cemetery on the plot for Rev. Soldiers whose place of burial in Washington Co. was unknown. Several years after his death Suannah Cline, his wife married to Anthony Evans about 1750 on 13 Oct. 1806. After Mr. Evans death Susannah lived for many years with her son George whose home was at the top of the hill east of Jericho Church. She died in 1840 and was buried in the family plot in the Jericho Cemetery, where her sons John & George were buried later.

Fort Fincastle was built in 1774 to protect the settlers. In 1776 the fort was renamed Fort Henry for Patrick Henry, the first governor of Virginia.

The George Cline family moved to Washington County PA. about 1781, and he enlisted in William Leet’s Co., 3rd. Battalion of the Washington County Militia in 1782. “Since a platoon of the Washington County militia had been assigned to help defend Fort Henry (Ft. Henry was near Wheeling WV which in 1780 was in VA) early in 1782 it is believed that George Cline, and possibly his family, were at Fort Henry when it was attacked Sept. 11-13th, 1782 by a band of 100 British and 260 Indians."

George /Cline/ Sr.born abt. 1740 in Northern Germany is is the 6th great grandfather of Debra Lynn PALAIMA-van Horsen.