ee, Nantahala and Sumter National
Forests). War Woman is
the second rapid on the Earl’s
to Sandy Ford run. However,
the name runs far deeper than
the river.
Nancy Morgan Hart was
born in 1735 and became a
rebel heroine of the American
Revolutionary War. She
stood over 6 feet tall, had red
hair, freckles and scars on her
face from small pox. She married
at the late age of 36 and
in the 1771 settled along the
Broad River in Wilkes County,
Georgia. She had six sons and
two daughters. Nancy was an
expert sharpshooter and hunter,
making sure her family of
eight children never went hungry.
She was a popular midwife
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and healer, using herbs to
cure many common ailments
of the time. These attributes
combined with her capacity for
hard swearing lent her a reputation
far beyond the average
housewife.
During the Revolutionary
War, the story told in Georgia
is that when Nancy was forced
to entertain a group of British
soldiers for a meal, she killed
two of them with their own
guns and hung them out back
on a tree. But you know how
stories go…. then 150 years
later, in 1912, grading crews
working for the Elberton and
Eastern Railroad uncovered
the bodies of not two, but six
British soldiers buried neatly
in a row and the stories of
Nancy Morgan were made into
legend.
Nancy is honored in Georgia
as a remarkable Woman of
the Revolution. Hart County
bears her name and her portrait
hangs in the state capital. If you
visit Georgia, check out War
Woman Creek or “Wahatchee”
named by the Cherokee in her
honor…and not, I might add,
earned lightly!