250 years later, DAR helps trace family roots to the Revolution

While many may think of tricorn hats and muskets, that ancestor does not necessarily have to have been a soldier.

“One of my patriots is Mary Polly Hawkins Craig, who was a woman of the American Revolution and a defender of the fort at Bryan Station,” said Lenna Hoffman, a DAR member.

Hoffman is among hundreds of thousands of women across the globe continue reading …