Georgia:  Chattooga County:  Joanna Troutman Pope Biography

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" In 1835, when Miss Troutman was 17, citizens of Macon, in response to 
appeals from Texas to help against Mexican general Santa Anna, raised 
$3150 to outfit company of local volunteers who, under the command of 
Col. Wm Ward, were going to aid the Texans. Joanna heard about the 
volunteers and wondered how she could help.  One evening while sitting on 
the porch of her father's inn in Knoxville, she looked up at the first 
bright star of the evening . It reminded her of the plight of Texas-all 
alone and fighting . 

She took some of her silk petticoats and with the help of neighborhood 
girls, sewed together a white silk emblem with a blue five pointed star 
on each side along with the words, " Liberty or Death." 

According to the accounts event, the flag was handed to the volunteers by 
Jaonna from the steps of the Troutman Inn, as they marched by, with 
instructions that it be given to Lt. Hugh Mcleod of Macon, a handsome 
young officer recently returned from West Point. 

When they reached Texas, it was unfurled by Lt. Mcleod at Velesco. He 
later died at Goliad along with many other Georgians. 

Although, Joanna never visited Texas, in 1913 at the request of Tx Gov. O 
B Colquitt, her body was removed from Elmwood, the Troutman homeplace 
eight miles west of Knoxville on the Flint River, to a place of honor in 
the state cemetary of Austin. An eight foot bronze statue of her holding 
a needle and thread was erected. An oil portrait of her hangs in the 
capital. " 

Rome News Tribune 
By Robert Rakeshaw 
Sunday March 26, 2000 


As I understand she lived in Floyd Co, GA, had kinfolk in Chattooga Co, 
GA(that's where the Battey- Mayo- Foster connection comes in) and she 
lived in the vicinity of Oostanaula United Methodist Church on Battey 
Farm Road. 
Michelle Doss