Kate Barry
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 Kate Barry facts

• She was the daughter of Charles and Mary Moore, and the eldest of ten children
• She married Andrew Barry in 1767 at the age of 15 and lived on Walnut Grove Plantation in Roebuck, South Carolina during the 18th century
• She was instrumental in helping to warn the militia of the coming British before the Battle of Cowpens in 1781
• According to legend, she tied her toddler to the bedpost while she rode out to warn neighbors that the British were coming
• Her warning helped to prepare the colonial forces to defeat the British governor, Cornwallis and his men and drive them north, out of the state of South Carolina
• She is buried in the family cemetery in Moore, South Carolina, beside her husband, Andrew, who was one of the first elders of the Nazareth Presbyterian Church
• She knew the Indian trails and shortcuts where almost no patriots lived
• Barry was a spy and message bearer for the militia when the Battle of Cowpens was fought on January 17, 1781
• The Battle of Cowpens (January 17, 1781) was a decisive victory by Continental army forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War
• It was a turning point in the reconquest of South Carolina from the British