The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-08
A VENERABLE DAME.
A woman of One Hundred and Thirty
eight Years to be Exhibited by Her
Daughter Ms Curiosity.
[From the Los Angeles Express.1

From the Los Angeles Express.1
An event of extraordinary interest oc-
cured here to-day. A wagon came IN
from the mission and stopped in front
of the Court House, and in few min
utes IN old lady seated in the bed be-
came the object of general attraction.
An immense crowd gathered around the
vehicle to witness, perhaps, the Oldest
living person IN the world. Eula'ia
Perez Cullen, who, according to the re-
cords of her family, has reached the
great age of 1873 years and some months
was the rare object of this curiosity.
She sat there wrapped up IN rebosa,
and conversed freely with al who spoke
to her. The old lady seemed to greatly
enjoy the attention she provoked, and
evinced an animation of juvenility con-
trasting curiosity with her great age.
Fer features are hardly observable be-
meath the heavy wrinkle les of her face.
Her eyes, which have not lost their vi
sion, peer out from beneath two red c.
cles Her mouth is sunken, and al
though her speech is mumbljug, yet it
comes out tolerably clear.
The old lady was greatly amused with
the interest she excited, and spoke pleas
antly to all who addressed her. In the
same wagon, sitting beside her, was an
other old woman, who is one of her
daughters, and on the drivers box were
two grandch ldren. The old lady had
been brought to the city on an appli-
cation made by Mrs. De White, one of
her daughters, for letters Of guardian
ship. It seems the old lady is living
with Mariana Antonio Hig Iera, one of
her daughters, who has formed the idea
of taking her mother to the Centennial,
rrder the idea that there is money in it.
Mrs. De White objects to this, and in or
der to restre'r her sister from taking
TIE old lady out of the county filed an
application for letters of guardianship.
The case came before Judge O'Mel-
yeny, II the Super, .sor's room, this
morning, end Mr.. F. P. Ramtrez ap-
peared for the applicant, and Mr.. S. N.
White for the contestant. Mrs. De
White testified that she had beer told
by her sister that she world take the
old lady to San Francisco and thence to
Philadelphia if she could make the nee
essal J arrangements. Mr.. White, the
husbend of this V mess, testified that
the old ,edy was IN her dotage, and not
competent person TO decide as to
m tAr of this End; he said he had
means and W shed to provide for the
wants of his mother-in-law, and be1ieved
that she would not I've If taker away
from the oornty; Mariana Sid she had
no means beyond her house and lot at
the Mission, but that she ,or'd pro, de
for her mother by her work; that she
had lived u .th her for twenty Yeas, and
that her mother was ng to co e7y-
where she had m-ld to take her.
When the testimony was a'l in Judge
O'Melveny said that he peri e. agreed
With the daughter who opposed the re-
movf' of the mother from the county,
and he should forbid it. But he would
leave the old lady at liberty - live with
either of her children as she elected, IL
the meantime reqr ''ng Ma.-ena TO frr-
IRISH bond in $500 that she would not
take her mother out of the county.