page_title: Anne Bailey
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Anne Bailey / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: This small plaque affixed to a rock beside of U. S. Route 220 near the Falling Springs Falls commemorates the location where Mad Ann Bailey once lived. Mad Ann was a frontier scout who served during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. After the Revolutionary War, Bailey continued to act as an express rider despite being over seventy years old. She died in Ohio in 1825 at eighty-three years old. Her remains were reinterred in 1901 in the Point Pleasant State Park in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
context_page_description: Anne Bailey was a British-born American story teller and frontier scout who served in the fights of the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War. Her single-person ride in search of an urgently needed powder supply for the endangered Clendenin's Settlement was used as the template for Charles Robb's 1861 poem "Anne Bailey's Ride". She is known as the Heroine of the Kanawha Valley.
context_section_description: "Mad Anne" Bailey was born in Liverpool, England. She first arrived in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, at about the age of 19 after both of her parents died in 1760. In 1765, she married a British soldier named Richard Trotter. He served in Lord Dunmore's War and was killed on October 10, 1774, in an encounter with the Shawnee tribe forces led by Cornstalk at the Battle of Point Pleasant.
caption: Plaque where Bailey used to live near Falling Spring, Virginia
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