Some true stories are handed down from one generation to another generation of hardyites.  This one comes from Attie Lee Turner, now a resident of Batesville, AR, whose grandfather fought for the Confederacy.  Her grandmother [Mrs. George Washington Turner], the former Lean Elizabeth Daugherty [daugher of Surkiah Daugherty] and her Aunt Kitty [Catherine Daugherty, who married an Orr from Ash Flat, AR] were living in Dent County, Missouri during the Civil War when the Federal Troops plundered their place.  According to Attie Lee, "After they (The Federals) had taken everything they wanted, they opened a chest of drawers, took out all of the women's underwear, threw the garments on the floor, stomped on them, and just acted ugly and mean along with it. They set fire to the house and told the ladies they could get out before the house burned.  Aunt Kitty, being a fiery kind of girl, ran upstairs, picked up a side-saddle, tossed it out the window and nearly hit a soldier.  Then she picked up a jug of  mollasses, aimed at an officer and let it fly.  He hollered, 'get that damn rebel down from there!'"  The two women managed to save a mantel clock and Lean's spinning wheel and lived to tell the tale of the rebel belle who was handy with a jug. 

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Hardy, Arkansas 1890