Howard County MO Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Mildred January 10, 1869
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Galveston Daily News, October 30, 1869 
Mrs. Mildred Brown, for sixty-three years a resident of Howard county, Mo., died
at the residence of her husband, Robert C. Brown, on the 10th instant, after a
very short illness. She was born January 25, 1796 in Madison county, Ky. When
she was scarcely grown the Indians surrounded Cooper's Fort (named after her
father), in what is now Howard county, in which were her father, his family and
his neighbors, threatened to cut them all off. In this perilous condition Milly,
as she was called, volunteered to carry the news to Hempstead, a neighboring
fort, which she did successfully, by dashing from Cooper's Fort, on a fleet
horse, past a hundred Indians, who sent a hundred rifle balls whizzing after
her. She and her horse escaped unhurt, and the inmates of the fort were rescued
through her courage and daring.

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