GARNETT — When she was 7, Ruth Allen, Garnett, remembers hearing stories about her great-great-grandfather. According to the stories, Samuel Amburn was a Revolutionary War soldier who crossed the ice-choked Delaware River with George Washington, surprising the Hessians at Trenton in one of the war’s biggest turning points. The Anderson County Review reported that many years later, Allen decided to do some research on those stories. She found out most of those stories were true. Her great-great-grandfather joined Washington’s army when he was 15. He left the service partly crippled. When he was 72, he moved to Indiana to live near some of his children. He died in 1860, just a few months before his 100th birthday. He was buried in a cemetery in Windsor, Ind., without grave marker, so she bought a gravestone for him. Last month, she attended a dedication ceremony organized by an Indiana chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Monday, Oct. 18, 11:30 a.m.
