The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-13
REvoLuTIoNARY HEROINE.
Georgia Amazon Who Single Handed
 Captured Ten Tories.

From the Richmond News Leader.
 Nancy Hart, the famous Georgia char acter of Revolutionary days. is by no means mythical but was a very real parsonage. Notwithstanding her gigantic frame, red hair freckles and crossed eyes, her memory is kept greener among the people of her native state than that of many a more prepossessing heroine.
 She was what Is famlliarly known as a Georgia Cracker" poor though intelli- gent white. who lived among the sand hills or In the Isolated districts of the state.
 Her capture of the ten tories while they were devouring the tempting viands she had been compelled to prepare for them is recognized as an historical fact.
 During Andrew Jackson's Presidency representative from Georgia. desiring to bring that state to the notice of the Pres ident. decided to present painting for one of the inches in tine rotunda of the United States capitol building At length 1t was completed-a portrait of Nancy Hart bareheaded, barefooted her skirts to her knees, crossing a shallow stream driving ten tories before her at point of one of their own guns. The President, who was redheaded and came of hardy pioneer stock himself. is said to have been very much pleased with the picture. and 1t is to be hoped that Georgia profited by the diplomacy of her representatives.
 The idea that Nancy Hart followed aher husband to Florida and died there Is err roneous. After the fierce disturbances or the Revolution had gone down as history she buckled up her yoke of oxen and with her children and grandchildren emi- grated to South Carolina.
 At one of the stops on the route her son-in-law became engaged in drunken brawl and was taken in custody by an officer Ever quick to meet an emergen- cy, Nancy went to the rescue. Bestow- ing few pugilistic bumps on the de- tainer of her son-in-law, she seized the latter and lifted him bodily into the bed of the wagon and drove out of town.
 Nancy Hart located near Edgefeld, a small town not far from the Georgia line. Her fame preceded her there, arr she was welcomed and respected by her neighbors My grandfathers grandfather lived in Edgefield and was one of the early Baptist preachers. The Scotch Irish were almost universally Presbyte- rian, but once agitated there was soon a large sprinkling of Baptists and Meth odsts throughout the south. The minis ters were for the most part itinerant. and reyivals that rivalled Moody's and Jones' In enthusiasm were held under huge open tabernacles an dmen rode on horseback a hundred miles to be in at tendance
 Tradition says that Nancy Hart was converted at one of these meetings. It would be reasonable to suppose that time and hardships would have touched the req hair with gray and curbed the old daunt- less spirit, but she was as strenuous in religion as in politics. There are mysti- cal stories in my mind of gaunt old wo- man embracing my dignifed ancestor and dIsarranging his stock and dragging slug gard sinners by their queues and coat tails to the pennance seat, but these are traditions repeated from generation 10 generation. and I would not vouch Tor their authenticity.
 However, have always understood that Nancy Hart lived to good old age died and was buried in the old Edgeheld dls- trict, now Edgefeld county, South Caro-