WALNUT GROVE Traditional Cache
DOUBLEDOGHUNTER: CACHE IS GONE. REPLACING WITH A NEW ONE UNDER A NEW NAME.
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NOT LOCATED NEAR ANY GRAVES. PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF THE AREA. THE CEMETERY IS A VERY PEACEFUL AND SHADY AREA.
Dating from 1795, this cemetery is Martins Ferry's oldest pioneer landmark. It is the resting place of the Zane and Martin families. The Betty Zane Statue is a reminder of the heroine of the last battle of Fort Henry. Their graves lie within the brick enclosure. Many of the residents were veterans of the wars during the late 1700's and into the 1800's.
Elizabeth "Betty" Zane (July 19, 1759 – August 23, 1823) was a heroine of the Revolutionary War on the American frontier. She was the sister of Ebenezer Zane and his brother Isaac, and a direct aunt of the author Zane Grey.
The community of Betty Zane near Wheeling, West Virginia, was named after her.
According to a historical marker in Wheeling, on September 11, 1782, the Zane family was under siege in Fort Henry by American Indian allies of the British. During the siege, while Betty was loading a Kentucky rifle, her father was wounded and fell from the top of the fort right in front of her. The captain of the fort said, "We have lost two men, one Mr. Zane and another gentlemen, and we need black gunpowder."
Betty Zane's father had buried a store box of black gunpowder in their cabin. Betty Zane volunteered to leave the fort to retrieve more supplies. The other women refused to let her go. But she had two reasons why she had to go. The first reason was that she was a woman and the enemy would let her go. The second reason was that she was the only one who knew where her father buried the gunpowder. The opposing forces, apparently surprised at seeing a young woman emerge from the fort, let her pass. In her family's cabin, Betty filled either a tablecloth or her apron (accounts vary) with gunpowder and ammunition, and transported it back to the fort. Apparently unaware of what she was carrying, the enemy again let her pass. (Some accounts say she was shot and attacked by the Indians when they realized what she was doing, but she made it safely back into the fort. )
The Zane family later settled in what became Bellaire, Ohio, across the river from Wheeling, and played an important role during Ohio's formative years.
Betty rests in this cemetery.
THE CACHE CONTAINER IS LARGER THAN A REGULAR AND IS FILLED WITH MANY ITEMS AND TB'S
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