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j Oldest Woman in This County,Parthema Jones, Age 93 Years:■**lt; ..— — ■ » n HMrs. Farthema Jones, who lives at VU Meridian street, with her daugh-ter. Mrs Dora Turner, is the uMost person residing in Shelhyville Mrs. Jones was horn in Deeatur county, on July }?,, IS*,hi In ten days she will celebrate !mr ninety-third birthday. When she was two years old. or ninety-one years ago. her parents moved to 1’nion township, tins county. Since that time practically her entire life has been passed in that township and in this eitvi'suallv when stories like this are ♦written the splendid physical condition of the person in question is dwelt upon When the writer of this narrative railed at th«i Jones home she mot hintby calling his name. shaking his hand and enquiring about his health and that of his wife If there is anything wrong with Mrs Jones shedoes not know it. She was asked a number of lending questions. answering them all quickly and d*s sive 1 v When she first lived in Sind-bvvii’e if was with her sister. Mrs Mandv Aside v. whose husband was Herman Ashley, their home being a two-room frame house located on theground where the new school houseon Hast Franklin street is being built Mrs. Jones says it was t he only house on the street a! that time Mrs Jones' was asked if she remembered a log jail any place in Shelhyville Promptly she said: Yes indeed’ It stood on the corner where Conrad Schroe-►der used to have a saloon and it was•kept by Smith Wingate, lather of the Wingate men who used to live here. One day I was at Wingates playing; with their daughter. Martha, who was near my age. There was no one in the .jail and the door being open I went 1 in. Martha shut the door and { want to tell you it scared me almost to death. in recounting the early stories of fin* town she said that Thomas Fleming had a store in a log building on the corner where the 1 Louis Todd clothing store now is.t! She recalled the woods that stood outside the original town and spoke decidedly ot man:’ the first sett'ers 'of Shelhyville. She was born eight years after tin* county was organized. There is not a cloud on her mind and she is still a wonderful source for in formation of early Shell yvillc She closed the conversation by saying •‘there will be big doing here on the Fourth” Sin* was asked if she was going to the fair grounds? to which .she replied: ‘‘I would like* to gomighty bad but if 1 do somebody will have to take* no on' and bring me hack
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Shelbyville Republican
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Mon, Jul 03, 1922
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