The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-05-27
WHO HAS LIVED HERE LONGEST?
Incidents Of History Connected With
the Lives Of Fulton COnnty'S
Oldest Residents.

residents of Fulton county. To
the one showing the longest resi-
dence barring war service we
will send the News free for the
remainder of his or her life. To
the second oldest pioneer we will
send the paper for five years free
and to the third. one year free.
The following is the first letter
we have received in which some
history was given. The other ap
plicants sent age only. What we
want is a story of their lives.
If Miss Sarah A. While, better
known locally as Aunt Sallie Wi
BILE, lives until the 18th day of
next July, she will have complet-
ed a life of SO years. Her broth
er Benjamin will be sc years of
age on the fifth of next Deeem-
Der.
These two aged people were
born and grew to manhood and
womanhood on the old While
place about one fourth of a mile
from where Dane postoffice is
now located. 1t was the first
farm to be cleared back of Scrub
Ridge, thus making it the oldest
farm in that neighborhood. The
farm is owned by H. o. While.
Miss Sarah is a daughter of Adam
and Jane While, deceased.
After the death of her father,
which occurred about sixty years
ago, aunt Sallie worked out for a
few years and then came home
to care for her mother who died
about thirty-five years ago. AT
ter that event, she and her broth
er Lewis lived together until ten
years ago this fall, when Lewis
died. Since that time she has
lived with her niece, Mrs. Scott
Brant, near Dane. Part of the
time that Aunt Sallie worked out
she lived with William Cooper
and she carried many a bucket
of water from the spring where
tn he McConnellsburg reservoir
now stands. At another time
she lived in the home of Benja-
min Bolinger, when he kept ho-
tel on the pike where John Lake
now lives. She can relate many
curious stories of how travelling
on the pike was done in those
days. She tells that coffin con-
tanning a corpse was hung in
chains under a big Conestoga
Wagon and brought in that way
from a western state and taken
down south for increment. Dur
ing her long life she was never
more than ten miles from home.
On the 9th of last December she
fell, and since that time she has
been helpless = although she is
not sick.
LETTER, No. 2.
Miss Elizabeth Bailey. was
born on a farm on Timber Ridge,
in what is now Thompson town.
ship, Fulton county, Pa, on Mon
day, December 13, 1929. AT the
time | was born the farm lay in
Bethel township, Bedford county.
Hence, if my life shall be spared
to see another birthday, | shall be
sc years of age. With the ex-
ception of five months that |, at
one time, spent in the family of
George Fisher in Hancock, Md,
| have spent my entire life Of
more than fourscore years in the
immediate neighborhood of my
birth. | would hardly take rank
as great traveller, for the
Trough Creek Baptist church in
Huntingdon county, which is less
than fifty miles from my home is
the greatest point in distance that
| have ever been away from my
birthplace. Berkley Springs, w.
Va, distant about 20 miles from
my home, Hancock, Nd, War
fordsburg, Needmore. and Nc
Connellsburg, are the towns that
| have visited in my lifetime.
In my childhood days, in the
section of country in which was
born, there were very few hous-
es of more than one story and a
half that is one room down
stairs and a garret up-with an
ordinary ladder taking the place