The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-09-05
A CENTENNARIAN.

There is an old lady living in
in Clay county, Missouri, who wat
born on tho 18th day Of March
1865, making her now ono hundrcc
years and six months old. llel
namo is Elizabeth Pope, and in /
letter to tho Secretary Of tho Ole
Settlers Reunion at ST, Joscphs, she
gives n brief history of her life
She was born NJ what is now known
rs Crab Orchard, Kentucky, where
her fathers family had removed
from Virginia in 1922, together with
sixty other familsos. The old lady
adds
Soon after the arrival of this small
colony in Kentucky, they concluded to
divide equally, whereupon thirty fam
lilies, under the leadership Of Daniel
Boone, crossed the river ut B0onsboro
and travelled in n southerly di-
rection, towards what is now
known as Frankfort. The remining
thirty families under the leadership OF
James Scoggs, removed TO the south
side of the Kentucky river, but finally
moved towards Lexington, where he
again joined Boone and his company.
The Indians were not very trouble
some until about four years after our
arrival in Kentucky. About that time
they began to show a hostile spirit,
which compelled the settlers to con
centrate their forces aud "fort up for
defense. But to be brief: for fifteen or
sixteen years of my life | saw little
else save fighting the Indians, hence,
you may imagine my life was some.
what mon0ton0us. The forts We're
then vacated and strong neighDor-
hoods formed. Abraham Lincoln, ST.,
and family constituted part OF the
company chat moved from Virginia at
the time my father left there, and his
farm in Kentucky Tor what was then
called fnrms) was contiguous to my
fathers. | have been in his house very
cen years old when Abraham Lincoln,
Jr., was born. Ihave oftentimes nursed
the dead President, which in itself was
not then nor Is 1t now anything ectra-
ordinary, for he was simply baby and
terribly ugly one at that. When
was eighteen years old | was married
to John Brady, who lived only eighteen
months after our marriage. | re-
manned widow eighteen months and
was again married to Thomas
Pope, with whom l lived upwards of
sixty years. Seventy-iive years Of my
life l lived in Kentucky, my consttu-
ton not being in the least impaired by
age. My husband concluded he would
move to Missouri, whereupon, the nee
essary preparations being made, we
started, and landed in Holt county,
near Mound City. Two years after
my husband died l continued TO live
in Holt county till my "baby," Andrew
l.. Pope, came for me. say "babyn
from the fact that he is my last child,
and he Is now in his fifty sixth
year. have had ten chill
dren, seven boys and three girls, and
between fifty and sixty grandchildren.
For an old lady, am said to be quite
active; | have never had occasion to
use spectacles, although l have had
several pairs-still can see as well or
better to-day with the eyes God gave
me than can with artificial applian-
ces. l can knit now three pair ofstock-
lngs week, and up to three years ago
| could spin twelve hanks of yarn u
day, and could weave eight yards
of six hundred flax LINEN. Since
have been ut my sons, A. l..
Pope, have walked one-half
mile and back without stopping
My health is good and my appetite
fine, and II live would like to go to
the Centennial next year. In short, |
don't feel very old, and like to talk OF
the past very much. 1 had nearly for
gotten to say that am the fifth person
that united with the reformation under
the preaching OF William Sherman.
We we'll know them as "Shermanites,n
which soon changed into "Campbell-
ites." Perhaps 1t would not be amiss
for me to recapitulate little, 10y add
ing that was the second girl born In
Kentucky, the first being lIavlna Whit
ley, who was afterwards Mrs. Mcliin.
ney, and who died at Independence,
Jackson county, Ia the year 1873. The
first white male horn In Kentucky was
Enoch Boone, who died In Meade
county,'Kentucky, near the mouth Of
Alter Creek, about the year 1857 OF
1858.