The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-27
LIVED UNDER "a PRESIDENTS.
Real Daughter of Revolution Is
Found in Georgia.

Found in Georgia.
Atlanta, Ca, July 23.-AIrs. Mary
Trawick Proctor, aged III years,
real daughter of the American Revo-
luton, a woman who has lived IN
three centuries when stirring things
were making the history of nations
has Just been discovered in humble
one-room cabin in Barlow county,
Ga. Her sole companions are her
daughter, Miss Mary Proctor, aged
go, and two great-great grandchll-
dren, descendants of another daugh-
ter, all who are left of six genera
tions of her family.
Mrs. Proctor was born in wake
county, North Carolina. She is the
daughter of Wiley Trawick, who LETT
North Carolina about 1900 and NOV
ed to Alabama when that State was
in it's pioneer days and where Mary.
was married to Hiram Proctor when
she was 10 years of age. She was
Mr.. Proctor's third wife. Her nus
hand was a veteran of two wars, the
Revolution and the War of 1912.
Is Almost a Skeleton.
On a bedding of straw constituting
mattress so thin that the rough
plank Stats can be seen, this Daugh-
ter of the Revolution lies, her form
emaciated, skin Wrinkled, almost a
skeleton. Her aged daughter never
tiring of her feeble efforts to give
her mother every possible comfort,
administers to the wants and necessi-
ties of the little household and be-
times tills the soil in small cotton
and garden patch nearby. The meagre
profits derived from this labor she
adds to the $12 month pension Mrs.
Proctor receives for the services her
husband rendered in the War OF
1912.
Luxuries Unknown.
Luxuries are unknown in the
Proctor home; even necessities are
often denied. Food of the plainest
kind is eaten, half a cracker for Mrs.
Proctor being usually sufficient for
her, while sometimes a whole one.
Born but few years after George
Washington was elected president on
April 80, 1889, her infancy was spent
when American liberty was in its
swaddling clothes. She moved and
had her being at the very close Of the
18th century, when John Adams was
chief executive. George Washington
was the only president who served
before Mrs. Proctor became native
of Alabama. She has lived under
the administration of "a presidents,
including Jefferson and William H.
Taft.
Told of Former Days.
Until a year ago, when her mind
became so enfcebled from the as
saults of time, Mrs. Proctor would
tell her great-great-grandchildren OF
the epoch-making incidents in Ii de-
cades over which her life has spann-
ed. Her stories were vivid kaleido-
scopic pictures, treating of her per-
sonal knowledge of the early stages
of the history of her own land. The
morning of her life she-spent when
the United States government had
lust been established, the liberty of
the people was in travail, and the af-
ternoon in the 10th, when her broth
er fought against a brother in the
civil strife of 1861, and now in the
night in the Goth, when the shadows
lenghthen across her pathway she
hears of the discussions Of world
wide peace movements, Of long jour-
neys by airships, in striking contrast
to the slow methods of travel when
she was a girl, of voyages by gl-
gantic, swift moving steamships that
have replaced the tiny vessels she
knew as a young woman, and the
modern methods of doing thousand
things in as many different ways so
foreign to those employed hundred
years ago when she was II years old.
A movement has been started in
Atlanta during the past few days to
raise funds that will be sufficient to
care for the two old women the rest
of their lives.