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According to a historical marker in Wheeling, on September 11, 1782, the Zane family was under siege in Fort Henry by Native American allies of the British. During the siege, while Betty was loading a Kentucky rifle, her father was wounded and fell from the top of the fort right in front of her.
Betty Zane (born c. 1766, probably Hardy county or Berkeley county, Virginia [now in West Virginia, U.S.]—died c. 1831, Martins Ferry, Ohio, U.S.) was an American frontier heroine whose legend of valour in the face of attack by American Indians provided the subject of literary chronicle and fiction. Zane lived in her native Virginia (now part ...
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Betty Zane is known for her daring display of bravery during a British-inspired Indian attack on Fort Henry on September 11, 1782. According to legend, Zane had just returned from attending school in Philadelphia when the settlement was suddenly attacked by Indians.
Zane’s date of birth was July 19, 1765 and died on August 23, 1823. She was buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery there, and a large statute honors her. Information contained here taken from the following resources:
Betty Zane was a woman of courage - a heroine of the Revolutionary War. Elizabeth "Betty" Zane McLaughlin Clark was born in July 1765. In the late 1760s three of Betty’s brothers ventured from Hardy County, Virginia, and in 1769 founded the first settlement near today's Wheeling, West Virginia.
Her arrival in 1782 was not quite at the midpoint of the conflict, but on the frontier, that year was one of the deadliest. The winter of 1781-1782 had been relatively mild. As a result, the frontier did not get the seasonal Sabbath from Indians raids they normally enjoyed from November to April.
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Mar 22, 2024 · Your clothes are pierced, but you are miraculously unharmed as no bullet has struck you – that is the story of Betty Zane, the 15-year-old American Frontier Heroine whose precious load of gunpowder had saved Fort Henry in 1782.
