The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-19
1903 YEARS YOUNG
DOES NOT WORRY
ABOUT HER DIET
Mrs. Annie Marlborough Who Has So
Many Descendants She Does Not
Know Number, Says She Eats
Whatever She Pleases.

Mrs. Annie Marlborough, who is just
1O3 years young, is in Atlanta, hav-
ing come from her home at Ashburn
to visit in Carrollton and then in At
lanta, travelling alone. Elastic IN step
and only slightly gray, she is enjoy
ing splendid health.
II certainly do not feel more than
100 years old, never have, and | don't
think l ever will, either was her
pleasant retort when the subject OF
her age was mentioned.
She is visiting DR.. and Mrs. W. S.
McNeal, at SO Windsor street, the
latter being her daughter, and one
who could easily pass for less than
40. although she has been married
forty years. Longevity seems to be
a family characteristic, though, for
Mrs. Yarborough's father lived to see
his 18th birthday,
Mrs. Marlborough was born and
reared in Cobb county near Marietta.
She has five children still living and
SAYS that her descendants were so
numerous she could not remember
how many there were, but that she
knew there were hundreds, anyway.
She has grandchildren, great-grand-
children, Observation-Disclosures
and great-great-great-gr grandchildren
whereas the ordinarily aged person OF
today has done we'll to live to see his
or her grandchildren, the third gener-
alton. She married at the early age
of Is. Her husband has been dead
nearly forty years.
She tells an interesting experience
of the fighting in Cobb county during
the civil war "Our home," she COM
menced, "was between the entrench-
ments of the Yankees and the rebels,
and for six weeks the fighting con-
tinued. We were practically sur
rounded. The top of the house was
badly shot up, but none of US were
ever hit. We were fortunate to have
enough food in the house to last six
weeks. Many of our neighbors were
killed but we came through it" When
her hearers asked how she accounted
for the near miracle, she simply add
ed, eve just trusted in the Lord. "
During the war when all the men
were at the front, Mrs. Marlborough
ran mill and supplied the neighbor-
hood with underground meal. She
told of this with pride and then said,
"And it was better meal than | can
get today, too"
No one special thing, such as "eat-
ing an apple a day to keep the doctor
away or an onion a day, as was
Hettie Green's prescription for health
and longevity, Mrs. Marlborough con-
siders responsible for her age. She
eats anything she wants, she says, and
always has. She says that she can
even eat cabbage if she wants to,
without any i'll effects. early to bed
and early to rise" however, she said
had played great part in her present
physical condition.
The morning paper still has its
charms for her, and though not with
the eyes Of twenty, her eyes of over
100 years Of age are still good. She
can read her favorite newspapers to-
day almost as well as in those far-off
yesterdays.
Atlanta, she says, of course has
changed marvelously, from small
village to the great city of the pres
ent, but she would not discuss this at
all, but took it as a matter of course,
the inevitable under the circum-
stances.
Belle-You know she's got new
hat.
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