Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-09
SHE SAW WASHINGTON
KRS WILLIAMS CELEBRATES Her HUNDRED
AND SIXTH BIRTHDAY.
Tie Ga Lady Realms All Ger Faculties and
Smokes Ber Pips Win Rsgulariy-Sha has
Been Methodist for Ninety Tears and Has
Already Seen Si1ly-two Of Der Own De-
sssndans. to the Fiah Generation,
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S5s,ici 7sieqrcm 20 the Rsgiits.
ZAxEsvILLE, O., February s.-Mrs.
AIarv Elizabeth williams, Of White Cot
tage. this county, will, on tomorrow,
celebrate her l06th birthday, and her
health is such that she can participate
heartily in the event She is By far
the Oldest resident in this county, and
probably is the Oldest in the State.
She was onl7 sixteen years Of age when
her father, John Addison, came here
from Delaware, and located on'a quar-
ter section Of ground In Newton town
ship. The trip was made al the way
in OK wagons, aud required several
weeks.
While en- route westward she was so
fortunate as to stop at a wayside inn
where
GENERAL WASHINGTON
was being entertained for the night
and she refers 10 graspiug his hand
with a spirit Of buoyancy more vlgor-
Gus than most persons OF less than
century old,
Two years latter when she was
eighteen years Of age, she was married
10 a neighbor, a young man, John Will
liams. They took up their residence
on tract OF land within sight Of the
parental cabin, and she is still living
there with her grandson, Howard VIII
liams.
When she came here the city OF
GAINESVILLE consisted OF a
FEW SMALL LOG HOUSES,
only one OF which had a single roof,
the other being weighed down with
clapboards All travel was then made
with OK teams, and the Journeys
through the woods were both danger
Gus and very slow.
She is the mother OF thirteen chill
dren, eight of whom are living, the eld-
est living child being James Williams,
Of White Cottage. She has fifteen grand
children, twenty great-grandchildren'
twelve great-great-cbildren aud two
great-great-great-grandchildren. Her
husband died nearly thirty years ago.
Mrs. Williams is remarkably preserv-
ed for one of her age, aud has al her
faculties almost unimpaired. Her men,
DRY is more clear on events OF ninety
or a hundred years ago than on more
recent events. She reads and quits
without the aid of Eyeglasses. Since
her Tooth birthday she has quilted sew
eral centennial quilts for her children
aud they are remarkably we'll done.
She has been a consistent Christian
woman and a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church for over ninety years.
She was nineteen years old when Rob-
ert Fulton invented the first steamboat,
but has never seen one, and although
for many years she has heard the
whistle OF the railway train, she has
NEyR7 BEES. ABOARD THE CARS
seen locomotive. For over forty
years she has never been of her farm,
and consequently takes but little inter
est i'm Developments She smokes IN a
temperate way, and perhaps enjoys her
self most when seated before the fire In
her easy chair reading her large print
Bible and smoking pipe OF homegrown
tobacco. Her daily diet is very plain
and the Old fashioned but extremely
wholesome corn pODe Is among the ar
ticles greatly relished By this more than
centenarlan. While very active on her
feet, Mrs. Williams takes good care Of
herself, and COOS out only 10 good
weather. AS one might reasonably ex-
pect OF one OF her age, she is gradually
whitening and weighs only seventy-dye
pounds. She comes from family noted
for its longevity, and her present con-
dltiOn gives promise Of continuance OF
her life for several years vet.