HANNAH DUNN.
While Captain Dunn was busy with his mill and official
business, Mrs. Hannah Dunn, his effiicient[sic] helpmate, was
occuppied[sic] in watching the store and little tavern on the corner of
Fourth and Main Streets.
She must have been a woman of indominable[sic] energy
and great muscular strength. Oftentimes, in addition to her daily labors,
she was known to do a man's work chopping cordwood, heavy lifting, and
many other things nowadays men would consider too laborious, to say
nothing of the women of 1887. She was as fearless as she was energetic,
and during her husband's absence would go into the woods, attack bear, and
most generally bring one home with her. Nor was this all, she was no more
afraid of a man than she was of a bear, and many times she was known to
take an overdosed, quarrelsome, wild, wild woodsman by the nap of his neck
and lift him from the bar-room out of the tavern. She was boss, and never
failed to impress her authority wherever occasion demanded it.
History of Henderson County, Kentucky
by Edmund L. Starling
p. 97 - 98
published in 1887
public domain material
