Revolutionary War Hero
April 26, 1777
Called out the volunteer militia by riding through the night alone on horseback at the age of 16 alerting the countryside to the burning of Danbury, Conn. by the British. Placed by Enoch Crosby Chapter, DAR Presented by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1961.
Sybil's gravestone, in a church nearby, reads, simply: "In Memory of Sibbell Ludington, wife of Edmund Ogden."
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Note: Sybil's name is also spelled Sibbel, Sibbell (on her gravestone) or Sibyl. (Apparently the Colonials were much looser with spelling rules.)
Many of Huntington's statues are in museums. Huntington's The Holy Family Resting - The Flight Into Egypt, is in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C., Her El Cid , is in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, and Jose' Mart, is in Central Park, New York City.
More info in The True Story of Paul Revere by Charles Gettemy
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