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url: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Barry
name: Catherine Moore Barry
gender: Female
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Catherine Moore Barry October 1752 – September 1823 was a heroine of the
American Revolutionary War. She was the daughter of Charles and Mary Moore,
and the eldest of ten children. She married Andrew Barry in 1767 at the age of
15 and lived on Walnut Grove Plantation in Roebuck, South Carolina during the
18th century. She 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 toddler to the bedpost while she rode out to warn neighbors that the
British were coming.