Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-01

and even feeds the chickens IN the larIn ysiu.
but for some months has not vs'ntured far
from the house 4 short sickness this sum-
rner occasionei great anxiety 70 her friends,
but she has wonderful vlgT FOR one OF her
as,e and soon recovered. sac insists on pre-
siding at table and pours ont the tea with
old fashioned grace, and Is never known 20
get the milk and sugar IN the wrong cups,
which can't BE- said for some good ladies not
quarter of her age.
The same glasses that Mrs. Fillmore began
TO wear when failing eyesight required them
are still used by her, a fact in which she
,akes great deal II pride. She can still
read. and il is part of her daily routine IN
read her Bible The Volume IN her lap I'm thu
pict,Ire above is a Bible left % her by her
husband, Parson Fillmore. Her bearing is
very good
When dressed for company she wears "A
black silk dress, lace cap, and her gray hair
is brushed smoothly back and ued III a Knot
at the back OF her head
4 pes.uliaritv about her is that although
she IN, renen,ber incidents that happened
fifty OF seventy-five years ago, her mental
yo,,ord of recent events Is rather hazv. The
old house In which sine live WAS built, ~ -
sand in 1918. the year after Buffalo WAS
arrived in Clarence and began expouuding IA
the wilderness the doctrines II the Methodist
Ep,scopal church He walked all the way
from Oneida to Clarence She followed him
six months later.
Mrs Fillmore WAS born IN Waterbury
Conn. in l7s7, and lived for "A while IN Oneida
county.
Though she has lived more than a century
and Is the same age as the constitution 81 the
United States, she has never ridden GA the
cars never heard the electric click 81 the
telegraph instrument, and the quick Hello
Io-lot' OF the modern telephone u 20 her bat
curious bearsay.
After living a few years in Clarence Mr..
and Mr.. Fillmore removed 10 Buffalo after
ward returning % Clarence. When Buffalo
was burned by the British in the war II isi3
they fed from their home. After The -rars
was over they returned and were over ayet %
find that not a bit Of their property had been
/ injured.
/ One Of the notable events in early Buffalo
history witnessed by Mrs. Fillmore was the
hanging of the three TBayer brothers, who
were executed on the same aaliosvs June l.,
1896 II y.as estimated that there were from
! % GO 70 30 90 SPECTATOR Of tBs executiD8-
+ Rev Gle-ou Fillmore was called On o. preach
/ % the multitude, which he did about an hour
) before the hanging.
{ P.-v Mr. Fiiirnorr y~ns for f01rtsen years n
;,astor and for tvvent y-ss-ven years a presiding
/ elder he built the first church IN Buffalo.
/ In WAS 25x3J fe.st and tha work Of building
e.rr.,,rie-i fortv-eight DAYS When h. was
I horn II Is saff that thsre were but @5ltpD
, u.thf,4ists In the Unitef State; when bs
I died the number had incroased - S,HD1DJ.
/ II. OBLIGATED a. ~ pvs.idin1x and - y might
( Is said that IN m0re WAYS than one b sFs-
! couraysd the propagation Il Aethodisri-
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at il nothing reybri Mr. FlimOr-.
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eoux.n the presi5e1t, "5st be would have
done better II rs hsd been A~t1o<fas
rIsscber."
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