Who was Bailey Anne?

Answer 1

Anne Bailey was a famous story teller, frontier scout and served as a woman in the fights against the Indian tribes. Her single person ride in search of an urgently needed powder supply for the endangered Clendenin's Settlement (present-day Charleston, West Virginia) was used as the template for Chorals Robb's 1861 poem Anne Bailey's Ride. She is known as the Heroine of the Kanawha Valley.

Bailey arrived first in Shenandoah Valley of Virginia at about the age of 19. In 1765 she married with the settler Richard Trotter. In 1774 her husband followed the call of Lord Dunmore for fighting on the western border. Unfortunately he was killed by October 10, 1774 in the encounter with the Shawnee forces led by Cornstalk at the Battle of Point Pleasant. For Bailey this was a real turn point because she put her son William into caring hands whilst herselves tunred into a Calamity Jane alike person wearing rifles, bushskins and similar equipment for doing scout services, hunting, messengering and story telling.