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Mrs. Lois Garrett.Is shown above u she sat In a rocker In her modest home on Brown's Lane, near the Carnation plant, and told of a hardy Muskingum county mother who gave birth to living quintuplets on a primitive backwpods farm about 70 years ago. Mrs. Garrett is 75; has smoked a pipe since she was a girl of 11. She draws a Civil war veteran’s widow's pension;By AL CLINEIN a ramshackle cottage near the Carnation plant this week a sightless, 75-year-old -woman, her clay pipe clenched in accustomed gjuihs, rocked in her chair■ and: .P a story M an unwed/mother jrtu, bor^:quinfeipl«t daii^htersln net lsolatin ^MuSkmguiii county farm almost 70 years ago. • '• • ••k ■ . P '■ i» «lt;■ ■The woman Is Mrs. Lois. Garrett, who was a girl of 10 when the children were bom to Martha Tudor, a neighbor, in the Jailer's home a stone’s throw from the oldSalem church, midway between Dresden and Adamsvttle near the comity line.When the children were 10 months old, Mrs. Garret says, the Tudor family, consisting of Martha, her mother, and a brother, Lyman Tudor, migrated westward. Ail the babies wereSays Union Headpicketing I* Continued by-Operator* atNewcomer*living at that time, the aged! A statement claiming the Tusca-woman reca s. j rawas County Motion Picture Op-Mrs. Garrett now lives with her gators' union had duly warneddaughter, Bessie, who cares fpr her. Cataracts robbed her of her sight about three years ago,' during one of the Muskingum river floods, but her blindness is her only affliction. Her hearing is acute and her mind seemingly undimmed by age. Her story ofClarence Ortt, manager of Ritz theater in Newcoraerstown, thataction would be taken unless herecognized the urifoh was issued today by Glenn Wallace of that village, member of the union’s executive board.......When picketers appeared beforethe five baby girls, bom in; squalor and with only the most} his theater Tuesday night carrying primitive medical care, is con-ja sign charging the management vincingiy iold. Listen to her: | was ‘’unfair/’ Mr. Ortt claimed he“My mother used to do house-!«*** not know ^ what reason the work for the Tudors,’ she re-]action was*token. Picketing con-called. “As a small girl I can ] tinued in front of the theater last remember rocking the five little!11 *Sht.Clarence Chance, proprietor of a{Continued on Page Tvo)
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Coshocton Tribune
Coshocton, Ohio, US
Thu, Sep 01, 1938
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Muskingum C.
OH, USA 13 Jun 2020
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