The Republican., 1915-03-04
ANOTHER NOTABLE PERSONALITY
FROM PRIMITIVE DAYS HAS GONE
The Death of nrs. Hannah Spiker
AT the Advanced Age of 81,

Mr.. William Brenneman, known as the
Alexander Lohr homestead or Meadow
Mountain Glade, Garrett County Mary
land, another aged person OF eccentric
personality is taken from some of the
widest and most unfrequented haunts
Offering secluslon in the mountains and
glades of Garrett After religious rites
reverently observed in the near by
Lutheran church the interment followed
in the family cemetery of the home
stead just mentioned.
She had so far survived the contem
pararies of childhood and preserve d
such scant tracings of her former history
as to leave but vague and doubtful
guidance back to the stock from which
she had descended. 1t is said her
mother was Murphy and more than
that appears too much shrouded in
conjecture to be accepted as authentic.
Those of the community whose lives
have been longest spared down the
sunset slope of life know but little of
her lineage but knew her well as one
whose fiery Temperament It was far
more prudent to pacify than 10 provoke,
and as one, while alone in their midst,
had to be reconed with as but few of
Ihe weaker sex nave dehant!y required,
iney Sd" hef feGai III d realm OF her
own eiea''oh ana OF a solitude she
cared ho1 TO nave broken oV any
'lLehd'hg toot-lal from tna out side
World II Is thought Mrs. SplSer was
once d MEMBER OF tne Methodist chutch,
ana IL Is known that she later became
'"'-'''Ieu Win me LulH -fah chutch an'
S'"r Ii" ''7 services ""ra oNp-fiuuII )
2e--ii'le' "HIcn' OWING TO hv' habits o.
severe lSoiauoh' wa OIL but Seloom
occotaiice'
Inc Undersigned ItSl met TINS strange
p-'1"CI "I I'le mountains IN the month
VI May 1o'o' AFihE tAeh with her agea
husoaho' I"e iate MI Jacob Splker
IN d decaylng old log cabin stand
4 "-'"
more commodlous residence, since built
pY 'ile laIe MI Alexander Lohr' IN
"hich' a-Ier many ramollngs through
yi'e changes ana lrlaiS OF more than
Iorly years, her career ended. Like
poor Joe from the pen OF Dickens,
sae had 10 move on, and eventually the
thiIIIess couple worn by age. was loc&t-
eo on small survey IN the dense forest
lar down on the then almost trackiess
Meado" mountain road and about as
remote from any other habltation as
existed even that early day Of pioneers
over thiS unlmproVed region. In a few
years, Whlle on visit to a son IN a
western state, the enteebled husband
dleu, the small survey with It's few i'm
proVements soon passed into other
handS ana from that REIMBURSEMENT,
curing the remaining twenty five or
more years OF lie, MRS. Splker was as
OUT hefmlc III the wilderness, enduring
cold and hardshlps narrowing to relate.
Inc sham OF mouse she contrlved to
get together on the west side OF the
ROAD from the abandoned survey, IN
lew years was lost by tile, and for years
she passed the summers sitting within
the marks OF the four walls where the
shantY once stood IN order to MAINTAIN.
as she oelleVed, the right OF possession
10 that ana contiguous lands. This was
deep forest IN rigorous zero climate
OF binding SHOWS where one of such a
robust frame and iron Will, as was hers,
could nave met and survived such ex-
tremes OF weather with such privations
IN living. OFTEN in riding by. the writer
hereo1 mas divided his midday meal with
this needV old woman and watch her
eating with relish and listen to her
quaint sayings IN tones as cheerful as
though the luXuries of wealth and the
blessings OF friends were hers. But a
llVing so impoVlshed would not have
been possible but for the watchful care
and charitable lnterventions of residents
VINO would visit her camp and minister
to her wants. In the month of January,
a nFd Ff toll