The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-02-08
HAER()INE OH VERMONT
history 81 Ann Story Little Known to
tho People n To-Day, But Rscords
Prove tier Great Services u ths
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me Vermont Society 81 Colonial
Danes dedicated at Salisbury recently
q marble monument to mark the site
q Ann story's cabin. says d Rutland
lSvt) dispatch to the New York Her.
aid. IA \.
THIS woman led q life Of patriotism
ana hard work seldom equaled, ana
there Is now a chapter Of The Dauell-
tiers Of the American Revolution I'll,
this city named for her.
The monument Is large square
block Of marble presented BY Fletcher
D. Proctor, son OF Senator Redfeld
Proctor II bears this Inscription:
"On this spot stood the home Of Ann
Story, In grateful memory 81 her
service In the struggle Of the Green
Mountain Boys for the Independence
OF Vermont. Erected by the Vermont
Society Of Colonial DANES, May 80,
1905.'
The history Of Ann Story is little
known outside the annals Of the town,
yet It shows many deeds Of unusual
bravery, She was q pioneer In the
town Of Salisbury, one Of she first
towns In Addison county chartered by
King George III. Her husband, with
their fourteen-year-old son, went there
In l774, leaving the rest Of his family
In Connecticut, he was building a
log cabin when he was killed by a
falling tree.
4 The next year Mrs Story, With her
three sons and two daughters, contin-
ued the home making in the wilder
ness begun by her husband. Nightly
they were disturbed BY the bowling
OF wolves and panthers, and often
were visited by hostile Indians, but
being a woman of remarkable physi-
cal strength, she was able to swing an
axe as well as a man, roll logs with
a lever or fire musket, so the little
home prospered in spite Of many set
backs.
When the revolutionary war broke
out most Of the families In that part
of the New Hampshire grants moved
to southern counties, where they were
In less danger from attacks by the \
Tories and hostile Indians, but Mrs.
Story and her little family remained,
and many patriot found shelter
under her hospitable roof.
In the summer of 1776 party of
Indians descended from Canada, pill
Laying the abandoned farm houses.
Their presence in the clearing next to
hers was discovered by Mrs. Story.
and, putting her children and yalu-
ables into canoe, she padded
through Otter Creek, whichS zh Dys'
her door, to a nearby swamp. Lying
hidden she saw the3 saxagee destroy
her home. Undismsyed. She 61ilt an
other small house. utilizing the
trunks Of trees small enough to be
handled without team. This done.
she and her sons dug place Of
secret refuge in the bank OF the creek.
Tne entrance was sufficiently large
to admit a canoe. u,
In the cave the family slept evehy !
night. The retreat was eventually
discovered by a spy named Jenny. He
accosted Mrs. Story, trying to get In
as to the movements of GER
tain Wings. Being unsuccessful, he
threatened to shoot the woman, but
she babe him defiance. 'i
AS soon as he left Mrs. Story noti-
fed her scattered neighbors that
Tories were around. A party OF
Wings was soon organized and upon
The track of Jenny's associates. Their
camp at Mendon, near Rutland.
twenty-five miles away, was surround
ID that night, and fourteen Tory prls-
,ners were captured and taken to
Fort Ticonderoga.
Mrs. Story was twice married after
ne close of the war, dying at the age
n n 4 49,