The Hannah Woodruff Chapter was organized 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.
On Tuesday, March 2, 2010 I will be posting her tombstone photos for Tombstone Tuesday; however I'm showing the plaque at the back of her stone (see 1st picture). Unfortunately, her stone is completely washed out and almost unreadable, fortunately the 1901 book mentioned herein, showed the tombstone and transcription.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).
3 comments:
Barbara,
Enjoyed both posts! You have so many cool things that you have experienced! I am jealous... (trade you a cousin?! - just joking).
Kathy
Wow Barbara! Can you be an associate member of that DAR chapter? I'm not in DAR yet, so I don't know how it works. A very nice post, I enjoyed it a lot.
Thank you both. This is what I was doing, while you were in Boston! Your articles were great, I kid you not. Kathy, you can have an ancestor if I could have a live cousin. And Heather, I was in the DAR, but joined the chapter my mother was a member of, also g-grandmother and gg-grandmother ...I wanted to remain loyal. ha.
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