Hart, Nancy
revolutionary heroine, was born about 1755, in Elbert county, Ga. On the occasion of an excursion of the British from the camp at Augusta into the interior, a party of five of the enemy came to her cabin to pillage.
While they were eating and drinking at her table she contrived to conceal their arms, and when they sprang to their feet at the sound of the approaching neighbors she ordered them to surrender or pay the forfeit with their lives. One man stirred, and was shot dead. Terror of capture induced another to attempt escape, but he met with the same fate. When the neighbors arrived they found the woman posted in the doorway, two men dead on the floor, and the others kept at bay. Hart county, Ga., is named for her. She died about 1840, in Elbert county, Ga.