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NUMBER TWOOrattiived fttw Fkft tcalled to her mind the stories told her by her father, a soldier under Washington at Valley Forge.Mrs. Alien was ten years old | when her father died in 1S50 after ! reaching the age of eighty-four.I Her father, John Jacob Storts, j was born at Red Hill, Pa., In 11766.I He was ten years old when the !bell in Independence Hall in j ! Philadelphia announced that the i I Colonies had declared their freedom from Great Britain. _ |A year later, at the mature age of eleven, he shouldered a flintlock musket, and joined the Colonial troops. v ••j He took the place of his father j who was thus permitted to stay I at home, and provide for a large ! family of younger children, j He went through the revolu-i lion unscathed, and, a few years I later, moved to e farm in Perry| county, near here.Later In life he married MaryAllen Barkert and there. In 1S4I, when her father was seventy-five.» Mrs. Allen was born.Her father died in 1850, Just before Mrs. Allen reached the .age of ten. His body lies in a little cemetery, Are miles east of New Lexington, where the Daughters j of the American Revolution have j i erected a handsome monument to I j his memory.j Her father, in his old age, de-* lighted to tell of his soldiering J under Washington, Mrs. Allen .! says. •j She recalls he told her that he j drilled for only a few hours with ; a company from his home town, then entrained for Germantown, meeting the British in a battle near Philadelphia a short time i, later.i He went into winter camp with I the rest of the army at Valley j*j Forge late in the fall of 1777. I5iM-s- there, long marches, lack cf ** He told his daughter of suffer- f. ■•c* * ~ w ” r' ----- — — —— Ij f-od. and sleeping on the frozen ,• ground. j ; Many a time he awakened to *• find his unshorn hair frozen fast!1 to the ground, his daughter said. JKe continued in the army and j •fnnrht in more than thirty on-.| ?ag°ments including the battle of» i Yorklown. which resulted In th**j• surrender of General Cornwallis. *, .Oct. 1?. 1781., H*r father rarely wore a hat jof:*r the revolution. Mrs. Allen ! '■aid. He had become accnstom^d j; J:o fighting and marching with his • head bare. 1'iThe family tradition of service• *j M IIV lUAli l,a \ Ii to country was continued by Mr?.• Allan’s brother. Abraham Storts. j j who was ono of the first Perry J ] county men to answer the call of j Abraham Lincoln for volunteers j ! in the civil war. I
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The Chronicle Telegram
Elyria, Ohio, US
Fri, Feb 22, 1929
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