The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
GEORGIA WOMAN
 IS III YEARS OLD Mrs. Proctor Has Lived in
 Three Centuries HAS DAUGHTER OF 90 Family Lives in Poverty But Is Hap py-Has Lived During Admins
 tration of Every President
 of United States
HAS DAUGHTER OF 90

Atlanta, July 23-Mrs. Mary Trawi ,k Proctor, aged Ill years, real daughter of the American Revolution. woman who has lived In three centuries when stirring events were making the history of nations has just been discovered in humble one room cabin in Barlow county. Georgia Her sole companions are her daughter Miss Mary Proctor aged 90, and two great great grand children, descendants of another daugh~ ter, all who are left of six generations of her family she has known.
 Mrs Proctor was born In Wake couE- ty, North Carolina. She is the daughter of Wiley Ira awick, who left North Caro- lima about 1900 and moved to Alabama when that state was in It's pioneer days and where Mary was married to Hiram Proctor when she was 19 years of age She was MT. Proctor's third wife. II '' husband was d veteran of two wars, the revolution and the war of 1872.
 on bedding of straw. constituting a mattress so thin that the rough plank slats can be seen, this daughter 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 necessities of the little hoiis4hoid, aHd hetlmss HIS tRa soil n 8 small lot and garden patch nearby. The meagre profits derived from this labor she adds to the SIP month pen sion Mrs. Proctor receives for the ser vices her husband rendered in the war of 1872.
 Luxuries are unknown in the Procto home; even necessities are often denied Food of the plainest kind is eaten, hals of a cracker for Mrs. Proctor being usually sufficient for her while some- times a whole one. a hearty meal. she says, Is pataken of.
 Born but a few years after George Washington was elected president; April 30, 17S9, her infancy was speut when American liberty was in it's swat ding clothes.
 She moved to North Carolina at the very close of the eighteenth century, when John Adams was chief executive George Washington was the only Pres ident who served before Mrs. Proctor be- came a native of North Carolina. She has lived under the administration of 24 Presidents, including Jefferson and Will liam H. Taft.
 Until a year ago, when her mind be- came so enfeebled from the assaults of time Mrs. Proctor would tell her great great-grandchildren of the epoch mak- ing incidents in Il decades over which her life has spanned Her stories were vivid kaleidescopic pictures. treating oi her personal knowledge of the early stages of the history of her own land. The morning of her life she spent ir the eighteenth century, when the United States government had just been estab- lished when the liberty of her people was in travail; the afternoon in the nine teenth century when brother fought against brother in the civil strife of 1861 and now the night, in the twentieth. when the shadows lengthen across her path way she hears of the discussions of worldwide peace movements. of long journeys by airshps. in striking contrast to the slow methods of travel when she was girl; of voyages by gigantic. swift moving steamships that have replaced the tiny vessels she knew as young woman, and the modern methods of do- ing a thousand things in as many diff ferent ways so foreign to those employed hundred years ago when she was Il years old.
 movement has been started In At lanta during the past few days to raise funds that will be sufficient to care for the two old women the rest Of their lives.