The Red Cloud chief., 1885-03-20
"a PINK"
4 New J~r.~y N-rr--. Who is Said tn he
ZIG Years Did


ing in the United State. i Sylvia Du-
bo!ce. 4 n.grcs, and n former slave.
who in August last celebrated
her 10th birthday. and who
lives in restitution On the bleak sum.
mi; of the Sourllnd Nounta n. in Hun
ierion County. New Jersey. Ia 4 IL
tie frame cabin. with one roon hardly
large enough for the swinging ~ = cat.
and which J., hidden amid the s,unt-d
underbru,h and huge bowlder, that
lend a rugged and barren picture, lEe-
mess To the lone spot. this famou.
mountain pink irag> ont her bur
dcn,orn- f.. attended bv her BABY,
a, she calls her yoGng.-t daughter.
Elizabeth Alexander, who j, herself
seventy YEAR OF aye.
When q HccDrd reporter. after q
wcar.,Omc climb Of mile. reached til.
cabin the other day be- found the ven
cradle human rr!ic stirring up wash
clothes that were in a boiler on ths
stove. wh." the BABY lu>tv ana
,tpEt mb.d. Wa chOpp,ng wool,
swinging her axe with the skill
and strength Of al Amazon. For
half a century old SYLVIA has lived
upon the identical spot upon which h'r
cabin now stands. The structure II
which all these years were passed
had brgln to tumble in sheer Lcray
about her. for il was a bold iar-ct inr
the fierce winds that sweep with huTri-
canc-likc fury over the top OF the old
gray mountain. II 1t last bccamr not
even III shelter for a beast. Her con
dition excited the commi-erati"n 81
Rev. Mr.. Ferris. 4 mountain mission
arr. who succeeded in Interesting ne
laIlc, IF the Presbyterian Church ~
Pennington, ten miles away. III her be-
half. They "a .sed the money for the
Ia linG of a new cabin and into this
she has lust moved. Tn, structure J.
not ,ithri or pla,t"rcd. and thrr" j.
ro carpet on the floor. The old il,s
sleep, on a cot. while her daughter r.
poses on an old straw mattrc-, III the
lofj. which j. without a window. and j.
reached b. the aid Of Il prm;iiv" lad
der. There l. not 4 >ingl" artlci" al
comfort about the place. and hardl,
the nccc,-aric~ OF life. But the new
house Is a pa!ac" III comparison with
tine old one.
The ccnt.nariaD i remarkably pre-
served for 80 great an age. h saw
she can hear purity good Her eye
sight j. excellent. and III" never Wore
specs" She can boast Of the posses
: on of one sound tooth. and SAYS that
since she WAS thirty wears old III" has
drawn crumbs 81 comfort from 4
clay tobacco pipe. Il think ~ much
Of dat old clay pilc a. ! 30 of my dar-
ter over wander. she remarked. The
old lady = dcnscly Ignorant. never even
having been taught Ia read or write,
and th.-. cJmblncd with her Clou led
memory, prevented her tcllin" much
aboHi herself. But the daughter >aVS
that her are l. fully att->trd by An en-
iry of her birth ~ the family Bible al
Maio, Bard. II whom her "a her. a
slave. belonged. She WAS born ncarR"ck
Mills. NJ tuc cd@. of TN" >om"r>ct
NuInta II. IN Somerset Comfy. y. j.
When a girl she va, odd or gwen 10 a
MAJ named Dubo &C.. who lived al Great
Bend. ON the north branch of the NUS-
quehanna River. in p-nnSvlv. ala. She
say> III" operated Il Jerry for her mas
ter. and took hES name. When she
reached her eighteenth year and WAS
her own master Duboic, furnished her
with a paper setting forth that she was
a free Woman Armed with this she
returned To Jersey. which was a; that,
time 4 slave State.
Her father served aS a iifer in the
Ont na,., .r,.N an Nh. command nt
Major Baird. his master. He part e.
pa,ci i'm a number oi battles. She ha'
no m!.mor for cycntS. aud gets III.
Revolution sadly mixed with IN" War
Of 1872. She i thu mother o: three
children. the eldest. Judith Robert.
whose age j. eighty three wears. LIVING
ut Princeton. y. j. She can not recall
the ages a.. hcr father and mother wheU
they dci. hut avs her soa-iu-law.
Francis Irazcr. died in Philad"lph!s
during The Centennial NJ the age of IA
hundred ard four YEAR Old sylvia -
aS pert a Il cricket can walk .sboIi
unaided. and i tut little stopped from
az. Two years sgo she made = jour.
nov 10 Lamsertville. and later tn New
Egypt. Mrs. Alexander toM the re.
porter tina, she had To- take ~ tender
care of her mother as though she were
a baby. The doctor will moi permit her
10 take medicine. bu; pre~cr. hes nour-
ishing food. These old women sub~isi
wholly upon charity. The daughter
regretted that. owing to the ARE re-
quirej by the mother. she Is unable 10
90 out |, o work for their support and
the consequence is that they are IN
great Observation-Disclosures kSoora.