(The Betsy Ross House holds the Ross family Bible.) The Edges were not the only Ross-Claypoole descendants gathered at the museum that day. Stephen and Cecelia Balderston and their children and ...

The author also recalls Ross' personal life, she died in 1836 at the age eighty-four, had been married three times, and had seven children. Marla Miller discussed her book at the Betsy Ross House ...

Keleher taught her two children ... Ross.” Some important details of who Betsy Ross was and what she did during the American Revolution remain murky. The story that appears in elementary school ...

affected the credibility of the Betsy Ross narrative. This weakens her own historical prose, which is strong enough to stand on its own. It also defeats the ultimate purpose of her book ...

Flagmaker Betsy Ross is embraced as one of the most popular figures of the American Revolution. The young Philadelphia seamstress stitched the original Old Glory in the summer of 1776 at the ...

Now she is one of the women bringing that history to life for the many visitors of the Betsy Ross House. "We call ourselves interpreters," says Spacht. She and a few other women portray Ross at ...

Today the historic Betsy ... Ross. She says the daughter, Clarissa, may have wanted her mother Betsy to enter the national pantheon at that time. Miller: There are growing numbers of histories of the ...