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ONE or JEAItTH'S BESTElghty-one years ago today a baby girl wiis born to James Moore and-w./e, Mariah Moore, who then Jived* on u farm three miles south of Bon-[ hum. A better man and wife have 11 not lived in Fannin county, and a-I tetter child has not been born among-| its than was that baby girl, who-came L-o a pioneer home so long ago. There were not many families nor many homes in Fnnm county at thac/ lime,j That bnby girl Is yet living among*us, though it has been so long since she was a baby that she has forgotten more things than most of us everknew, Bui she hasn’t forgottenmany very iiUcrcsltng things that she-has learned by long experience and-observation. One ol these vital thlngy is that one may Ik* happy by JxUng* useful and faithful and hopeful—-andshe has been all of these, .Today Mis. Ellen Oldham celebrated* her oighty-imst birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ben-* HnlselhA number of old friends were Invited' to the splendid dinner the daughter had prepared, and that they might-P1 enjoy the fellowship of one whomj they nil love, and lo add that muchI to her joy. She lias lived long and'p i well, and it is the hope ol her friends* 1 that days that may yet come to lump will be filled with the Joy of recol- P lections of life well spent and the as-11 sociation of friends and loved ones.
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Bonham Daily Favorite
Bonham, Texas, US
Tue, Dec 13, 1932
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