biography
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Zane, Betty
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popular name of Elizabeth Zane
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| female
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| lived:
| (?1766–?1831)
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| biography:
| Heroine, probably born in present-day West Virginia, USA. Her brother, Colonel Ebenezer Zane, built Fort Henry in present-day Wheeling, WV. During a fierce Indian attack (1782), she is reputed to have run from the fort to a nearby powder magazine under Indian fire to replenish the supply of the defenders. She married twice and had seven children. |
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