Kate Barry

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Kate Barry was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War. She was daughter of Charles Moore and wife of Andrew Barry, and lived on Walnut Grove plantation in South Carolina during the 1700's. Kate 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 newborn baby to the bedpost while she rode out to warn neighbors that the British were approaching.

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.

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• Silcox-Garrett, Diane (1998). Heroines of the American Revolution: America’s Founding Mothers. Chapel Hill, NC: Green Angel Press.