Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-16
REVOLUTIONARY HEROINE.
Georgia Amazon, Who, Single Hand
ed, Captured Ten Depre-
dating Tories.


acter of revolutionary days, is by no
means mythical, but was q very real
parsonage. Notwithstanding her gigan-
tic frame, red hair, freckles and crossed
eyes, her memory is kept greener among
the people of her native state than that
OF many more prepossessing heroine,
says the Richmond dNews-Leader.
She was what is Familiarity known as
a Georgia Cracker" poor though in
telligent 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 pre-
pare for them is recognized as his
torical fact.
During Andrew Jackson's presidency
representatives from Georgia, desiring
to bring that state to the notice of the
president, decided to present painting
for one of the inches in the rotunda of
the United States capitol building. At
length it was completed-a portrait of
Nancy Hart, bareheaded, barefooted,
her skirts to her knees, crossing a shall
low 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 it is to be hoped
that Georgia profited by the diplomacy
of her representatives.
The idea that Nancy Hart followed her
| husband to Florida and died there is
erroneous. After the fierce disturbances
of the revolution had gone down as his
tory she buckled up her yoke of oxen
and with her children and grandchildren
emigrated to South Carolina.
At one of the stops on the route her
son-in-law became engaged in drunk
en- brawl and was taken in custody by an
officer. Ever quick to meet an emergen-
cy, Nancy went to the rescue. Bestow-
ing few pugilisYc bumps on the detain-
er of her son-in-hw she seized the latter
and lifted him bodily into the bed of the
wagon and drove out of town.
Nancy Hart located near Edgefield, a
small town not far from the Georgia line.
Her fame preceded her there, and she
was welcomed and respected by her
neighbors. My grandfather's GRANDPA
ther lived in Edgefeld and was one of
the early Baptist preachers. The Scotch
Irish were almost universally Presby-
terian, but once agitated there was soon
a large sprinkling of Baptists and Meth
odists throughout the south. The min
listers were for the most part itinerant
and revivals that rivaled Moody's and
Jones' in enthusiasm were held under
huge open tabernacles and men rode on
horseback 100 miles to be in attendance
Tradition says that Nancy Hart was
converted at one of these meetings. II
would be reasonable to suppose that
time and hardships would have touched
the red hair with gray and curbed the
old dauntless spirit, but she was as
strenuous in religion as in politics. There
are mystical stories in my mind of 6
gaunt old woman embracing my digni.
fed ancestor and disarranging his stocl
and dragging sluggard sinners by theil
queues and coat tails to the penance seat
but these are traditions repeated from
generation to generation and would no
vouch for their authenticity.
However, l have always understood
that Nancy Hart lived to good old age
died and was buried in the old Edgefielt
district, now Edgefeld county, S. G.