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i * ia i i i a.Hardin County’s Oldest Resident To Be 105 Years Old TomorrowQ $ O $PiREST, Nov. 17 — Mr*. Mary A. Naus, Hardin county's old* est resident and one of the oldest# * #citisens of Ohio, wilt observe her 105th birthday Tuesdaly In thehome of her soivlndaw anddaughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. Stan ton King in Forest.Although the advancing years have impaired her vision and hearing. Mrs. Naus, who was bom Nov. 19, 1841 and was a young woman at the outbreak of the Civil War, expects to greet her friends from her comfortable rocking chair post here Tuesday.Mrs. King says that her mother ilfiIs never ill and arises at 8 o'clock each morning’ and seldom retires before 9 o’clock at night The 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 Fires 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. MARY A. NAUSlog cabin had been erected bynMrs. 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-Hi ter a in t ha neocAht Afathe bride’s father, Thomas Ketcl and neighbors, pending the bridegroom’s retqm from tne war.Mrs, Naus has lived 57 years in r- rest. Mr. Naus expired in 1929 o.t the age of 89. Mr. and Mrs, Naus were the parents of 10 .children, of whom seven ure living.Seven ChildrenA son, Alva Naus of Spring-Held is 81. The others are Mrs. Flora Harper, Toledo; Mrs, Belle Kraut, Chillieothe; 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 thegreatest change in living coninditions of any similar era In history, is very proud of her fourorreat-trreat-izreat urranrichifrfren.
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Findlay Republican Courier
Findlay, Ohio, US
Mon, Nov 18, 1946
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