The Washington times., 1920-04-19

A little white-haired woman was
trying yesterday to scrape together
few cents to carry on her crazy quilt
work and start a little garden. To-
day she learned that she was one OF
three heirs to q $40, 900 900 estate, left
by an uncle. who was one OF the
Forty miners"
She Is Mrs. Sarah Mccoy Kron,
eighty six years old. a life resident
of the District of Columbia, nearby
Maryland and Virginia. She is now
living at 724 Columbia road north
west with her only child, Mrs. Jennie
Shaner.
For twenty years Mrs. Kron has
been living In comfortable but very
modest circumstances In the house on
Columbia road. carrying on her end
of the household duties in spite OF
her age and raising q small garoen
in the rear OF the home place. On
rainy days and during the winter she
sews on her crazy quilts.
II was comfortable and happy and
had most everything I wanted until
along toward this spring, when
found that didn't have enough
money to get materials for my quilts"
said Mrs. Kron this morning.
Too OLD to Need Money. ~s
California was supposed to be very
rich, but I never thought about that,
at least not very much. They have
told me that he is dead and that
will get quite a piece of money from
his estate, but I'm not much worried
about that.
'I'm too old now to need much
| money, and all I want is just enough
to keep me comfortable. I'm always
happy when l can sew on my quilts
or dig a little in my garden.
But IL 1 am really to get some
money l would like to buy little
piece of ground out on Georgia ave,
| nue.. near the country. where 1 could
raise a few chickens and have a nice
little garden in the summer"
The other heirs to the estate are
Gabriel Shipley, a locktender on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and a
cousin of Mrs. Kron, and a sister VINO
lives in Maryland county. Va snip
lev Is the attendant at Dam No. :,
near Williamsport, Nd.
Mrs. Kron was born at Chariotts-
burg, Maryland county, Va. In 1884.
She is the daughter Of Andrew NC
Coy. one Of the early settlers in Mary
land. Her grandfather, of Irish
French descent, came to this country
before the revolution.
Fled from Antietan.
| When the civil war broke out Mrs
Kron was living on what later be-
came famous as the battlefield OF
Antiedam. At that time her daughter
was child. They were alone in the
house on the morning of September
1s 1862. when an officer In the uni
| form of the United States army
knocked at the door and told them
| they had better leave the house, as
there was likely to be heavy fighting
there during the day.
| Hardly had he departed when can
non fire was heard not far away:
Hastily gathering their clothing and
valuables together, mother and daugh-
Tor fled to the house OF a neighbor,
several miles away from the field. All
that day and all the next day the bat
| tie ragged around the home they had
so precipitately left
| After the fighting had ceased they
| yentured to retur-s to their home. All
along the road were the bodies OF men
| who had fallen during the battle.
shattered guns and equipment lay
under the trees which were stripped
! of branches and foliage oy the oul-
| let's. when they reached their home
tbey found It riddled with bullets. the
windows smashed. and much OF the
| furniture ruined.
| Impoverished by War.
| Tn 1890. impoverished by the war,
thcv came to this city, where they
have since made their home. For the
past twenty years they have been liv-
! ing in the house on Columbia road.
when they first moved there II was
then In the more unsettled portion
O fthe city and the house was then
surrounded by vacant lots and fields.
But the city kept spreading out
and around us, and finally L didn't
have so much room for my garden
ing" said Mrs. Kron wistfully. Il
began TO wish we lived further out in
the country. but we didn't have
enough money to think OF getting a
new place.
But now that I am to have this
money I am beginning to hope that
maybe I can have a nice little place In
the country after all. After I get my
home, though, I don't know what I
will ever do with the rest of the
money. can't ever use It. or course,
there is my daughter, but she can't
use very much of II, either.
"The uncle who left me this money
he was a Mccoy, too---lived In this
part OF the country up until 40. when
| Of The HE unld sfriLe In Call.