Last survivor of the 1778 Wyoming Massacre dies in Ohio
Barshena Martin Weeden died at her home in Columbia Township in Lorain County, Ohio, aged ninety-three. She was the last survivor of the infamous Wyoming Massacre in Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778 during the Revolutionary War. She was twelve at the time of the battle. She married John Weeden, who survived her, in 1798. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Francis Vincent, Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register.... 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860 (Philadelphia: Francis Vincent, 1860), 226.