Heroic Women Monument
by Cynthia Guinn
Title
Heroic Women Monument
Artist
Cynthia Guinn
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Photograph
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The Women’s Monument is dedicated to the North Carolina women who took part in the Revolution, mainly as nurses. The graves of Ezekiel and Mary “Polly” Slocumb stand in front of the monument. Legend has it that Mary had a dream that her husband was wounded and rushed off to Moores Creek, arriving just as the battle ended. She attended to twenty wounded men and became quite famous for her actions. Naysayers claim the story is just legend, that Ezikiel was only 15 at the time and didn’t join the war until 1780. No record of her was written in any battle reports. However the story came to be, true or false, it made its way into an 1848 book about women in the American Revolution and now she has a monument dedicated to her.
Currie, North Carolina USA.
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December 28th, 2017
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