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Jan 14, 2020 · Even more damning, she announced that Elizabeth Zane was not in town in 1782 and that Scott had never been in danger because the Indians had withdrawn well outside the range of their muskets and rifles. [28] By then, Cruger was eighty-three years old and there was only one living witness to the event who could contradict her.
Elizabeth "Betty" Zane was married twice and was a mother of nine children. Before her first marriage, she bore a daughter, Minerva Catherine Zane, also known as Miriam, by one Capt. Van Swearingen. Court records in Ohio County, Virginia, show an order for Van Swearingen to deed property to Betty Zane, so the daughter would be provided for and not become a burden on the county.
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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The community of Betty Zane near Wheeling, West Virginia, was named after her. More than one hundred years after her death, John S. Adams wrote a poem called "Elizabeth Zane" that achieved some acclaim. [10] Betty Zane's great-grandnephew, the author Zane Grey, wrote a historical novel about her, titled Betty Zane, also republished as The Last ...
Mar 22, 2024 · Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Zane was born on July 19, 1765, in Virginia before moving to the town of Wheeling, West Virginia which was founded by her brothers, Ebenezer, Silas and Jonathan. It was in September 1782, when Betty had returned from schooling in Philadelphia when Wheeling was besieged by Native Americans who were allies of the British ...
Elizabeth Zane McLaughlin Clark (July 19, 1765 – August 23, 1823) was a woman involved in the American Revolutionary War on the American frontier. She was the daughter of William Andrew Zane and Nancy Ann (née Nolan) Zane, and the sister of Ebenezer Zane, Silas Zane, Jonathan Zane, Isaac Zane and Andrew Zane.
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Full Name: Elizabeth Zane McLaughlin Clark. Betty was present at the siege of Fort Henry in Wheeling, present-day West Virginia the day she entered the pages of history. The town and its nearby fort had been founded by Betty’s older brothers several years before the siege occurred in 1782.
