Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-11-07
HERMIT LIVES
NINETY YEARS
Missouri Woman Had Never Rid
den on a Railroad or Visited
a Large Town.
HAD SIMPLE RULES OF LIFE
.Rave Something TO Interest You and
Keep coing-Learn to Go to
Sleep Easily and Don't
Borrow Trouble

Macon, Nlo.-Ninety years in the
bacl, country of Missouri without ever
having ridden in n railroad train ar
visited a town larger than SiubcriV.
Huntsville or Macon, WAS thr record
OF Aunt Berry" Eilio,t whose death
occurred recently at the eoiuc of Ter
sister. Mrs :. T.. Rice, six aLIiles
we>i at lack sopyille.
Miss Elliot was one al very in
tcrcsiin- trio. tile other two being her
brothers. Perry and Jordan Elliot
who died u few years ago. All their
lives they had lived upon the land
which MAS taken mp by their father.
William Elliot. when he came from
Kentucky to northern Missouri in
1916. After the death az their parents
AMI the marriage OF The younger chill
drrn. Miss Elliot ana her two broth
rrS lived ON the old homestead. car
ryiu@ on their farming operations and
duties about the house IN the same
primitive manner rs conducted 10y
their parents IN ih" pinnrrr days.
Had One Ride in a Hotor Car.
Miss Elliot one" enjoyed the cXl"-
rirucc 81 riding in Il motor ear. she
SAIL she got as far as college Mound
Wien something :tb"u; il went dead
ami ihcy h:id Ia hitch un a ..uiipl" nt
riUlc> tn liau Them back home. She
never cared much for motor ears sincc
then.
The Elliot brothers developed the
ESTATE until II comprised about 1000
:cp.S and. although in ihc hear Of
the very richest growing section "
Missouri. much OF II WAS rough pas
tire land. For great many years
the farm was Enclosed with rail fences.
. which aS tim" went ny sank far int"
rlic ground. The fencing around this
farm marks almost the last of the
old rail fences in northern Missouri.
None -oi Ih.. three had found time
in their busy lives to 20 ~ school. bur
they knew The value cf stock and
grain :nd were AZ Shrcwd in th"ir
deals as anybody. Underneath :, lars''
part of their iand are valuable beds of
coal.
flight shy "f ,;c,.t"rs and medicine
Have SolnythII. 10 interest you ana
keep going. Learn 10 go 10 sleep east
~. ana don't borrow trouble. Get ont
~ the air und raise turkeys duck
and chickens Eat hearty -ud z" a.
bed early"
That WAS the rule uf Aunt Betsy"
Scorned Luxury for Simple Life.
Fourteen years ago Il IBrrcSlioulcn
visited the Elliot trio and spout -
dry with the children of nature. VIII"
scorned luyuricS TO live the simple life
nf il:eir parents. pioneers of Missouri.
There tire correspondent found :
l"aky hous". built by their parents: e
part 90 which was begun the year after
th- civil war and never had been
completed, and three children" all
more than seventy who never had
had time 90 even think about Inarrilsc.
The only thing modern on the iarin
was niec-I"oSins range in tile kilcli-
Ell which the boys had purchased for
Aunt betty
I.hte in thc evening the two boys
returned Ia the house. All talk In
gentle. qiiiet tones. In brief they out
I Tired iheir lives ~ follows:
Never too old 20 work.
Never had II quarrel with anybody.
Never >wHpped a horse.
Never owned dog.
Never use tobacco in amy form
Never belonged to a church, but he
IIeved in God
Never were in lawsuit
Never knew the extent Of their
wealth.
kept their accounts with pins or
shingles.
What was good enough Tor HEIR
forefatiIers was good enough for them.