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fI.iM.Oldest Woman in This County,—* 1IParthenia Jones, Age 93 Years■«___________(I_____I■1I—W 1 n|»Mrs. Parthenia Jones, who lives at ] was asked ii she remembered a log 331 Meridian street, with her (laugh-j jail any place in SUeibyviUc. Prompt-ter, Mrs. Dora Turner, is the oldest ■ ly she said: “Yes indeed! If stood person residing in Shelbyville. Mrs. on the corner where Conrad Schroe-Jones was born in Decatur count.vjder used to have a saloon and it was on July 13. 1830. In ten days she will ■ kept by Smith Wingate, father of the celebrate her ninety-third birthday, j Wingate men who used to live here. When she was two years old. or nine- One day I was at Wingate's playing ty-one years ago. her parents moved | with their daughter, Martha, who was to Union township, this county. Since i near my age. There was no one in thethat time practically her entire life has been passed in that township and in this city.Usually when stories like this are written the splendid physical condition of the person in question is dwelt upon. When the writer of this narrative ■ building called at the Jones home she met him by calling his name, shaking his hand and enquiring about his health and that of his wife. It there is anything wrong with Mrs. Jones she does not know it. She was asked a number of leading questions, answering them all quickly and decisively. When she first lived in Shelby ville it was with her sister. Mrs.Mandy Ashley, whose husband was Herman Ashley, their home being a two-room frame house located on the ground where the new school housejail and the door being open I went In. Martha .shut the door and I want to tell you It scared me almost to death.*' In recounting the early stories of the town she said that Thomas Fleming had a store in a log on the corner where the Louis Todd clothing store now is. She recalled the woods that stood outside the original town and spoke decidedly of many of the first sett'crs of Shelbyville. She was born eight years after the county was organized. There is not a cloud on her mind and she Is still a wonderful source for information of early Shelbyville. She closed the conversation by saying “there will be big doing^ here on the Fourth. She was asked if she was going to the fair grounds? to which she replied: I would like to goon East Franklin street is being built, j mighty bad but if I do somebody willMrs. Jones says it was the only houseihave to take me out and bring me*on the street at that time. Mrs. Jones back.”
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Shelbyville Republican
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Mon, Jul 03, 1922
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