Hannah Hunter Handy, Memorial

Title: Hannah Hunter Handy, Memorial
Biographical Text: Stone arch serving as a memorial for Handy.
The arch is located in South Royalton, Vermont, where Handy and her family lived at the time of the raid. The monument was erected in 1915 by the town of South Royalton on the South Royalton Green in memory of Handy’s courageous acts.
Text: [Top of Arch]
THE HANDY 1780 MEMORIAL

[Left-hand side of Arch]
IN HONOR OF
HANNAH
HUNTER
HANDY
WHO RESCUED NINE
CHILDREN FROM THE
INDIANS AT THE
BURNING OF ROYALTON
OCT. 16, 1780
AFTER SHE MARRIED
GIDEON MOSHER
OF SHARON, V.T.

[Right side of Arch]
CHILDREN RESCUED
DANIEL DOWNEP
ANDREW BURKEE
NATHANIEL EVANS
JACOB FISH
RUFUS FISH
MICHAEL HANDY
ROSWELL PARKHURST
JOSEPH RIX
KILLED
PETER BUTTON
CILES GIBBS
JOSEPH KNEELAND
THOMAS PEMBER
ERECTED BY THE
ROYALTON
HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION
1915
Date Created: 1915
Relation: Handy, Hannah Hunter (1753-?)
Type: English Statue
Bibliographic Citation: Hannah Hendee – Heroine of the 1780 Royalton Raid, New England Historical Society
Project Researcher: Bysterbusch, Hailey

Where are the women?