Thus, the ‘friend’ swore-out a warrant for [the] murder and Ralph’s arrest, whereupon the two brothers, Ralph and James Stuart, left the community and went to an uninhabited area of “Wilderness of the New River,” where they set-up camp and stayed for a period of eighteen months, trapping and hunting and seeing only two other persons during that time.” Only one other white man was then a resident of the upper valley: John Cooke served with Stewart at the Battle of Point Pleasant, though it is unclear whether Cooke helped arrange for Stewart’s removal there. Ralph Stewart Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, erected a marker along WV-85 north of Oceana, West Virginia, directing visitors to the grave and a second marker along Clear Fork Road.