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Hi cd c w v«wi.nThe last time she was under a physician’s care was way back when she was a younger woman, 96, and the doctor said her heart was not behaving properly* Carried From Firea However, Mrs. Naus has seen quite a bit of excitement in her second century of living. On Feb. 3, 1946, when she was 104, she was carried to safety when a $30,000 fire destroyed the K. of P. building which stood Just four feet east of the King residence. This was the second time since her 100th birthday she was carried from threatening flames. On Jan. 6, 1945, she was taken from the King residence, when fire razed the Shell service station, Just four feet, west of the King home,Mrs. Naus spent her girlhood, years near the present village of Patterson when paved highways, drainage ditches and railroads were unknown and the early settlers sighted their rifles at deer and other large game instead of shotguns at pheasants and rab-i-blts as In the present era.___________Married In 1866On Feb* 12, 1866, she was married to John P. Naus, just discharged from service in the Civil war. The couple went to housekeeping in a log cabin in a small clearing in the virgin forest. TheMRS* MARY A. NAUSlog cabin had been erected by the bride’s father, Thomas Ketch and neighbors, pending the bridegroom’s retym from the war.Mrs, Naus has lived 57 years in r- rest. Mr. Naus expired in 1929 «.t the age of 89. Mr. and Mrs, Naus were the parents of 10 .children, of whom seven are living.Seven ChildrenA son, Alva Naus of Spring-Held is 81. The others are Mrs. Flora Harper, Toledo; Mrs, Belle Kraut, Chillicothe; Mrs. Evelyn Conkle, Mrs. J. Stanton King, Mrs. Cora Purdy and William D. Naus, all of Forest.Mrs. Naus, who has lived for more than a century during the greatest change in living conditions of any similar era In history, is very proud of her four great-great-great grandchildren.Mrs. Shellliouse Honored At PartyWHARTON, Nov, 17 — Mrs.
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Findlay Republican Courier
Findlay, Ohio, US
Mon, Nov 18, 1946
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