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Our Chapter History and Activities.
The Nancy Hunter Chapter NSDAR was named in honor of Nancy Ann Hunter,
a courageous and patriotic heroine of the American frontier. Nancy Ann, the daughter of Joseph
and Mary Ann Holmes Hunter, was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, but moved with her family to the
wilderness of Kentucky at a very young age. In 1779 her father joined the expedition of General
George Rogers Clark. Joseph Hunter was placed in command of a fortified post called Fort Jefferson
just below the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers near the present town of Wickliff, Kentucky.
The building of this fort so incensed the Indians that they laid siege to the fort with reportedly as many
as twelve hundred warriors. They destroyed all the crops of the settlers and drove off all the livestock.
The siege continued until the settlers were facing starvation. A story is told that the only milk cow in
the fort somehow wandered outside the stockade and the Indians were trying to entice her out of the
range of the rifles of the settlers. Our brave and imaginative Nancy led the cow's calf out where the
cow could see it and thus coached the cow back into the fort. Nancy was not seriously injured, but her
clothes were completely shredded by arrows.
Nancy Hunter was married in Fort Jefferson to Israel Dodge. Their son, Henry Dodge (1782-1867),
served the state of Wisconsin as Governor and as a United States Senator. His son and Nancy's grandson,
Augustus Caesar Dodge (1812-1883), served as United States Sentor from Iowa. Nancy's second marriage
was to Ashael Linn. Their son, Dr. Lewis Fields Linn (1745-1843) of St. Genevieve, was a dedicated doctor and
a United States Senator from Missouri. The county of Linn in Missouri is named in his honor. Nancy Ann
Hunter Dodge Linn had the unique distinction of having two sons and a grandson serve our country as
United States Senators. Their brilliant careers reflect the influence of their intelligent and heroic mother.
  
Descendants of Nancy Hunter
Sen. Henry Dodge (Wisconsin), Sen. Augustus Caesar Dodge (Iowa), and Sen. Lewis Fields Linn (Missouri)
The Nancy Hunter Chapter was chartered October 12, 1901. The organizing Regent was Mary Helen
Fee who had begun organizing the chapter on June 18, 1898. The Nancy Hunter Chapter has always
promoted the DAR goals of historical preservation, patriotism, and education. Throughout the years we have
placed many monuments and markers on sites of historic significance and on the graves of Revolutionary
War Patriots, a practice we continue today. This year we will be working with the Allen Laws Oliver Chapter
Sons of the American Revolution to find and make sure every Revolutionary Soldier's grave is marked in our area.
Our members are dedicated to community service and we participate in various civic events. We continue to give awards to
American history students, good citizens, and ROTC students from local schools. We volunteer at the local
Missouri Veteran's Home and have taken as a special project, the women veterans.
Current officers of the Nancy Hunter Chapter are: Regent, Sheila Holloway; Vice Regent, Karen Lang;
Chaplain, Dorothy Points; Recording Secretary, Catherine Allison; Corresponding Secretary, Helen Towns;
Treasurer, Minnie Stiver; Registrar, Charlotte Slinkard; Librarian, Patsy Robert.
Pictures of Sen. Henry Dodge, Sen. Augustus Caesar Dodge, and Sen. Lewis Fields Linn are from the
online Biographical Directory of the United States Congress at http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp.
The DAR Insignia is the property of, and is copyrighted by, the National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
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organizations, or individual DAR chapters.
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