Anna Stalcop was born in Virginia in 1776 of Swedish and Finnish stock. She married Cornelius Houghland.  She spent the winterof 1796 -97 alone with her husband Cornelius Houghland near the banks of the Ohio River, waiting for the rest of the family to join them in West Virginia. A century later but only a few miles away in Parkersburg, Samantha Beuhring Young writes, "Now cousin admit (I do) that our Great grandmother [Anna] was a wonderful woman whose courage would of been a surprise to the ladies of today. Think of it, living in a camp 7 miles from a house, staying many days alone. The forest stocked up with bears, wolves, panthers, wild cats, deer and turkeys. While here she learned to use the rifle, the wild game coming close to the camp cost them their lives. She was a fine shot. She shot a large hawk in a tall oak tree, in the top of the tree, that had come for a chicken." Anna died April 29, 1824 in Marietta, Washington Co., OH, the mother of five children.