Short Biography of Elizabeth Clements

Elizabeth was the daughter of Jacob Clemens of West Augusta. As a little girl, she stood on a brush-covered stump and watched for Indians while her father worked in the field. Soon after her marriage, a young Indian maiden whom Elizabeth had befriended came to her secretly and told her that the tribe planned an attack upon the Deerfield settlement two nights off. Elizabeth had been given a wedding present of a fine saddle horse. She saddled this horse and rode all night over a mountain trail to successfully warn the settlers. At another time she carried a load of ammunition to Old Stone Church, done up in a homespun table cloth when the settlers there were under seige.

Her library was composed of the Bible, Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Young's "Night Thoughts." She could quote Paradise Lost "in a wonderful way."

Source: "Some Descendants of Edward Erwin of Long Glade" ³⁶³⁰