Hello list - Thought this might be of interest. ================================================================== A historical marker dedication ceremony in honor of Mary Shirley McGuire, an American wife, mother and Revolutionary War patriot buried in Bedford County, will be held Sunday, April 21, 2002 at Horse Mountain Road Cemetery. The ceremony is being planned by the Mary Shirley McGuire Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Dallas, Texas, which, along with host chapter Shelby Chapter DAR of Bedford County, will welcome as their special keynote speaker Linda Tinker Watkins, president general of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. A bus with chapter members and descendants of Mary McGuire will arrive in Shelbyville on April 20. Taking place at 2 p.m. April 21 at Horse Mountain Church of Christ will be a dedication service, which will include recognition of McGuire descendants, among whom will be Sallie Mackey, regent of Dallas's Mary Shirley McGuire Chapter. After the unveiling ceremony, a reception will be held in the church annex. Historic studies reveal that Mary Shirley McGuire, her husband William and their young son Michael were taken from their Virginia farm on June 26, 1780, to Quebec, Canada, where they were held as prisoners of war by the British. After being in Canada for two years, the McGuires were released in a prisoner exchange. In their long walk back to Virginia, their older son, Michael, died but a son Thomas, born while they were in Canada, survived the trip. After the war ended, the McGuires moved form Virginia to Madison County, KY, and then in the early 1800s moved to Bedford County where they purchased land, built a cabin at the base of Horse Mountain and raised eight children. Many of their descendants remain in Bedford County. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/