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NEWS EXCERPTS
(Source: Genealogy Bank)
Transcribed by Sharon Wick
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Source: Boston Traveler (Boston, Massachusetts) Vol: I
Issue: 56 Page: 2
Dated: Jan. 13, 1826
GALLIOPOLIS, (Ohio) Dec. 3. - Longevity.
Died, in Harrison Township in this county, on Tuesday the
22d ult. Mrs. Anne Bailey. From the best
accounts we have had, she must have been at least 115 years of
age. According to her own account, her father was a
soldier in Queen Anne's war - that on getting a furlough to go
home he found his wife with a fine daughter in her arms, whom he
called Anne, after the Queen, as a token of respect.
In 1714 she went from Liverpool to London, with her mother, on a
visit to her brother. While there, she saw Lord Lovett
beheaded. She came to the United States the year after
Braddock's defeat, aged then 46 years. Her husband was
killed at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. After
that, to avenge his death, she joined the garrison, under the
command of Col. Wm. Clendenin, where she remained until
the final departure of the Indians from the country. She
has always been noted for intrepid bravery. Col. Wm.
Clendenin, says while he was commander of the garrison where
Charleston, Kanhawa, is now located, an attack by Indians was
hourly expected. On examination, it was believed that the
ammunition on hand was insufficient to hold out a siege of any
length. To send even two, three or four men to Lewisburg,
the nearest place it could be had, a distance of 100 miles, was
like sending men to be slaughtered; and to send a larger force
was weakening the garrison. While in this state, Anne
Bailey volunteered to leave the fort in the night, and go to
Lewisburg. She did so, and travelled the wilderness where
not the vestige of a house was to be seen, arrived safe at
Lewisburg, delivered her orders, received the ammunition, and
returned safe to her post amidst the plaudits of a grateful
people - Free Press. |
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