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and did even more outstanding service by carrying water to the wounded on the hottest June day of that year. In full view of the British, but unmindful of her own danger, she filled and refilled a pitcher, out of which the wounded drank. "Molly Pitcher" the wounded and dying called, and so came her name. Her husband was an invalid following the battle, and after his death, she married a comrade named McKelly. This marriage was unhappy and did not long continue. Molly Pitcher was hired by the county for work about the courthouse and in the last years of her life received a pension from the Pennsyl-vania legislature. She is buried in the Old Graveyard and her finest memorial was erected in 1876 with town ceremonies. Her last and stately memorial was erected by the State of Pennsylvania in 1916 and shows her life size, as she held a gun. The face was sculptured from a compos-ite photograph of five of her great-grandchildren.

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