shot while baking bread the same day that her lover was killed in battle, and Jane Annesley, the beautiful red headed girl of the West Branch Valley, whose auburn tresses were coveted by the warlike Indian Skanando, and who followed her until he scalped her. She survived the scalping many years, being still remembered by older residents about Lock Haven as an aged woman hoeing corn, wearing a black scull cap. And we must not forget to mention Genevieve Loverhill, the intrepid girl scout and scalp hunter, also of the West Brandy Valley. The mother of the immortal Abraham Lincoln, plain Nancy Hanks, was of Pennsylvania origin, like her husband Thomas Lincoln. By a strange coincidence the early homes of the Lincoln, Hanks, and Boone families were close together in Eastern Berks County. Montgomery, Chester, and Berks County have vied with one another as the early home of the Hanks family, but Rev. J. W. Early, a venerable clergyman of Reading, writing on the 100th anniversary of “Father Abraham’s” Birth, in 1909, in the Reading Times, stated that the family originated in Berks County, and the early spelling of the name was Hanck, whereas in Chester County there is a family called Hanke, possibly of a different stock. Nancy Hanks, the typical pioneer mother, occupies an outstanding place in the Nation’s history, and we can feel closer to her, and her ideals, by reckoning her as one of our Pennsylvania women. Dr. Stephen, before mentioned, tells us that Jane Borthwick, to whom Robert Burns, in his youth, dedicated several lovely poems, and who later emigrated to Pennsylvania, is buried in Womelsdorf, Berks County. We cannot close this rambling discourse without mentioning a little known Centre County heroine, Mary Wolford, for whom Young Woman’s Town, now ruthlessly re-named North Bend, and Young Woman’s Creek, now ruthlessly polluted by tanneries, are named. While encamped with her parents, formerly from Buffalo Valley, near the great hollow buttonwood tree, below Milesburg, where the spartan Indian chief Woapalannee, or Bald Eagle, is said to have slept standing up, this fierce warrior fell in love with the tall, slim and beautiful pioneer girl. She was indifferent to his advances, being engaged to James Quigley Brady, the “Young Captain of the Susquehanna,” a younger brother of the famous Captain “Sam” Brady. Bald Eagle managed to have the “Young Captain” scalped, which caused his death, and later captured Mary Wolford, and started North with her, towards the old Boone Road, leading to New York State. Somewhere, beyond the creek, which now bears her name, the lovely Mary broke loose from her captors, although a wooden gag was in her mouth, and her hands were tied behind her back. Boldly she plunged into the stream, which was swollen by a flood; gagged and her arms helpless, she was carried off by the swift current and drowned. Days afterwards her body was washed ashore at Northumberland, near where young Brady was buried, and