The Hannah Woodruff Chapter was organized on June 25, 1897 and the Charter was dated November 30, 1897. From the Chapter Site is the following statement:
"It was the unanimous decision of the organizing committee to name the chapter for Hannah Woodruff, a granddaughter of Samuel Woodruff, the first white settler of Southington. Hannah Woodruff married Asahel Newell, by whom she had eight children. Shortly after her husband's death she married Daniel Sloper, a widower with five children, and they soon had a son. This was Hannah's family when her husband, Captain Daniel Sloper, led the Southington company to the Revolutionary War accompanied by her three sons, Solomon, Asahel, and Mark Newell, and two of her husband's sons, Daniel and Ezekiel Sloper. Thus, Hannah Woodruff saw six men of her family go off to serve in the Revolutionary Army, leaving her to care for the remaining nine children of their combined families. She certainly was a true patriot and heroine of the American Revolution."
Hannah was my 5th great-grandmother.
Chapter sketches, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution By Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution 1901, 531 pages. Pg. 305-314 (great index, and search box to check out Connecticut names).
