Move over, Mother Bailey: West Virginia has its own heroine of similar name, ilk

Carol W. Kimball

The book that tells about Mother Bailey of West Virginia fame
Groton's heroine Anna Warner Bailey of the American Revolution and War of 1812

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Scrapbook

8: Communication Artifact

Documentary Artifact

The Day

New London, CT

06/07/2004

Carol W. Kimball

Well familar with Groton's heroine Anna Warner Bailey of the American Revolution and War of 1812 Carol Kimball is surprised to receive a slim paperback acquired in West Virginia titled: Life and Times of Ann Bailey, Pioneer Heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley. It was a reprint of the work of Virgil A. Lewis, originally published in 1891 in Charleston, West VA. On Oct. 10, 1774, a fierce battle took place at Point Pleasant at the junction of the Great Kanawha and Ohio rivers between Virginia frontiersmen and Native Americans who were allied with the British. When her husband was killed in battle, Ann Hennis Trotter dressed in her husband's buckskins and with rifle in hand attended all militia meetings, and became a messenger and scout going from one frontier post to another alone. In 1791, now married to John Bailey, Ann Hennis Trotter Bailey was the only one to volunteer to secure powder for Fort Lee. The two women were not blood relatives but they were sisters under the skin.

Bailey, Anna Warner
Mills, Edward (Corporal)
Bailey, Elijah
Monroe, James
Jackson, Andrew
Van Buren, Martin
Lafayette, Gen.
Mother Bailey
Bailey, Ann
Lewis, Virgil A.
Trotter, Richard
Hennis, Ann
Trotter, Ann
Trotter, William
Bailey, John

American Revolution
War of 1812
Battle of Groton Heights
Native Americans
Point Pleasant West Virginia
Fort Lee
Liverpool
Col. Charles Lewis Chapter of DAR
book
heroines