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Show ONLY REAL D. A. R. I 1 , i: ' t : r J V J f . I , . j ' I fe- . - - J '' J K ' .'' J i ,s This is Mrs. Maria Slorts Allen of New Lexington, Ohio, eighty-six years old, tlie only surviving real daughter of tlie American Revolution. Mrs. Allen's father, John Jacob Slorts. at. the age of cloven enlisted to take his father's place In the Continental army, lie was among Ceorgo Washington's troops at Valley Forge and Mrs. Allen remembers vividly tlie stories told by him of the sufiering Washington's men endured. |