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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 ...
In 1923, a monument to Betty Zane was erected across the river from Wheeling in Martin's Ferry, her home following her marriage. [10] Martin's Ferry has hosted an annual Betty Zane Days festival since at least 1994. [11] A subdivision, community center and road northwest of Wheeling, West Virginia is also named after her.
The defenders decided to dispatch one of its men to secure more ammunition from the Zane homestead. Betty Zane volunteered for the dangerous task. During her departing run, she was heckled by both the Indians and Loyalists. Upon successfully reaching the Zane homestead, she gathered a tablecloth and filled it with gunpowder.
The city has multiple cemeteries, including Riverview Cemetery, St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery and Walnut Grove Pioneer Cemetery. The latter is the burial place of local heroine, Betty Zane, who saved Fort Henry in Wheeling during one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War by hiding gunpowder inside
Betty Zane is an unincorporated community in Ohio County, West Virginia, United States. [2] It is located to the east of the village of Clearview.The town is named after Betty Zane, who is believed to have saved Fort Henry by fetching gunpowder and ammunition while under siege during the American Revolutionary War.
Their sister Betty Zane (1759–1823), was a heroine of the Revolutionary War. Then Zane family is originally from England. Robert Zane was born in 1643 in Yarcombe, Devonshire, England. He married Margaret Hammon in November, 1664 in Dublin, Ireland. Margaret Hammon was born in 1641 in Middle, Yorkshire, England. She died around 1672–1673.
In 1849 when she was 83 years old, she caused a heated controversy when she swore out an affidavit discrediting Betty Zane as the heroine of the gunpowder exploit during the 1782 siege of Fort Henry sixty-seven years after the event in which she was one of the last surviving eyewitnesses. She had resided in Shepherd Hall from the time the ...
Possibly born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1763, or on the South Branch of the Potomac River where his parents had moved before 1770, Lewis was the son of Mary Bonnet (1735–1805; daughter of Jean Jacques Bonnet, Flemish Huguenot) and John Wetzel (1733–1786; indentured servant emigrant from Germany's Palatine region or Friedrichstal, Baden, Germany).