ANNE BAILEY.
VIRGIL A. LEWIS.
[Mr. Lewis is the State Historian of
West Virginia, the author
of "The History of West
Virginia" and many valuable publications con-
cerning the early historical events in
the Ohio Valley.]
All that was earthly of Anne Bailey, the
Pioneer Heroine of
the Great Kanawha Valley, that has not
crumbled to dust, has
been removed to Point Pleasant and
re-interred in Tu-Endie-
Wei Park. It is, therefore, now time to
eliminate from the story
of her wonderful career and life of
adventure, as scout and mes-
senger, everything of a mythical
legendary, fabulous and fanci-
ful character, and to learn and to know
the real narrative - the
truth - regarding that record female
heroism which has no par-
allel in the annals of the Border Wars.
The keeping of her
grave is now in care of the Colonel
Charles Lewis Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution and
they must answer a
thousand questions regarding her, whose
bones they keep. Anne
Bailey was herself a Daughter of the
Revolution, a real one,
who served her country faithfully and
well when that struggle
was in progress. Then this western
border was the "Back Door
of the Revolution," and the men and
women who kept back from
it the savage allies of Great Britain
were the "Rear Guard of
the Revolution." Anne Bailey was
one of these; and the school
children should be able to tell to the
thousands who will hence-
forth visit her tomb, the real story of
her life.
The following facts obtained from Border
Annals, from offi-
cial records, and from persons who knew
Anne Bailey, will help
them to do this:
1742. Anne Bailey, whose maiden name was
Hennis, was
born in Liverpool, the western
metropolis of England the home
of her father, who, in early life, had
been wounded at the battle
of Blenheim, while serving under the
Duke of Marlborough. She
was named for Queen Anne.
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