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Zane, Betty (c. 1766–c. 1831)| US folk heroine. She was probably born in present-day West Virginia. During a fierce American Indian attack in 1782 she is reputed to have run from Fort Henry in present-day Wheeling, West Virginia, to a nearby powder magazine, under fire, to replenish the supply of the defenders. She married two times and had seven children. |
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