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f *THE INDIANAPOLIS S1JNDAT fA-l«09. ^ . . t,V \'» '^-i'i--*'/Olde s T VMte Woman .Mrs. Eleanor Combes, Who Has JusCPassed theICentury Mark, Has Never Ridden on a Train,f.Seen a Steamboat or Street Car, or Been BeyondBY CLirPORD S. LEP.SI rj.IVAN Incl , t 2iIN a (OS'* liUlo cottago aljoui tliuc-ciunilcis of a ^oulh of Sulli-vap ihfr^' sM (Un h\ lt;ia\ lt;\n ar(.*M norrinp ponHy to and froIn her enmfnrraVilc rnnkei ha(i|nh apcndlTiK tho Imin^ aslxst sh^ m^\, whHf memheiv of tiu Ilt;l!lUl^ nUh v\hom ahe Iheh give lioi tMij AtioMijoii .iml nelphbora dicp In olt;lt;u''UmuiI1a in lnl hu good lt;hlt;HM Ml s j;ieanoi lt;nlt;'vvA dB.V9 Oh (OiiUiu niatli ti)U\ Hia oldest whKo woroa.n hi the sLaO of lu-djAoa spihKH )m decUnitig \r n* in!kljK of the plonoci daja hi the ataio of whWh Bhc is a naii\o and in wliieh sh» haspent h^r entire Hfo Dnnng hei lifeliinc has c n Ok* railroad di^p)aclt; ihe piaule Mhnlt;mcr atni the stage (oaeli Slv has li\lt;d thiou^hlhaf period (if tnm In svhirh On sti ini ^Jbostf* has lt;hHp),j(od the KUlh^Ut and Oncanof During hn fho eUnfiuear has dlsplaecd the chi mid sheha* Uvod lo slt; 0 tlie au1o?nohi!f in i,iu eral use and lo know tluil the .letnpl'in^ and the aiisliip me hero to 'ta^ SIk has w?cn \ast foif^U of 'ialr'j\ of'ttlldivood and ri mideibrush give v\a\ In WRiIng fields of giain inci Oirohblng (rni merdal (enllt;.ts ulirrr Ok smokf r*f mnnv factories and frorii numr rona tiain' that thnnder o\ei lahiilrulr rf Oaiks obscures the hon/oTi SIk fias ilv'eit lo *ee the bear,, the* dui Uto -\Klt;y\i mid tlie eat entnolj'diaapp* n fiom Tmllana The foreatfi no longoi ivsoiind with th^ flutl^i of wings of my I lads of wild fowl, tli^ atalwait red man m* loiipir roams the wooOr in puisulc of wild g/ime Th(* foi-eats no longei leftouiid with the bloodcurdling wai whoops that oneo (hilled the settlers as the Ruvagn tilbrs sudrtenlv descended upon thf It piev The small ideirluK nnu iHinmed m hv Its ‘‘enake' fenre, )n cid«rged liUo uiil(-s and miie^ of clotiilngs dlMfhd into for-ttle larmR by long diid ulmosl in\isif)lc threads of ^Ire This lt;iKed worn in IWed throiift'li (he ndnilnistuillon of eveivPresident tin eounfiv h;is had frnm (hritOf Jamec Madlhou down In Wtlllanj ifTaft During hei IHalme too. tho telephone and the lelegiMph have hound Iho eoujitiy logetber, ihe ttkgiaph tn l^e flureeedecl in a mensuie h\ the system now coming into genethI fhe has fceen slate after Rtnte ndded to llio Union until the tounluv iealt;hed westward to the Par 111 e She has seen Mic towns of Sullican, (’Qrllsle and Meiona grow from cross roads mto innnmUal little cities 8he has seen Uilt; slate of Indiana wrested irtmi the sacagi' to heelt;mio CM of the foremost states hi tlu* Union But, best of all she Iws Hvod a hf«' worthy of imllcilmn 8hr stands lodftc olthe heed ol fi^e gem I'llion*^'m siuuhiiOOSlers and she posse;jsrs an hnmnn^rcircle of fHenda and at (pislnUince^ aii«. Combes was bom In lt;o(obor,Borders of Sullivan, Washington and GreeneCountieS'She Recalls Her Childhood Days in arCabin Surrounded by Indians, Bears and WolvestH9.'im.4*hi•orWiV«•»X*t A*'%VA\ *1A.ft' ^V'•V /.Hv.vSk:•A*-A■ •AANV*. .*1r ts•ysrI? •»V »\*N VA/VMViA.v4 S« lt;JO A7A/rs^ Q/*MfPetOA/ '/OOZfi/Ta/at/ x/^if'K'*►VAVVlt;sS *,• V*.'s'•tA^:s\»»'■■? vf 'V..s rA s lt;Ssslt;N \s\\xM.'/lt;*4.Xi'.mwlt;V18M. She rtoee not know th? oxac(^ rtnlpof her birth, hnt her desrend.snls Inxve figured It nitt as the eloventh dnv. nf the month and it is upon tliat dav thet all het rfelatlves gather earli yoai to releLirato her birthday amilvorsavy aiul bid hi .m-Otber return of tho da\ The agfcl ladv is a native of Salem, \Vaililiist'’Ti Oomity Her father, John McUrew, wAe a uatUe of Penneylvflnla In lil'i catlv mrtiihnod he chose to TnlEtrate und h'* piislied aost-ward until ho rearhocl Kcniutky Thojo he met a young WDinan whcnn lie oftrt-ward matrled and hi ought to SalemSturdy Pioneer and His Wife . Build Cabin in Wilderness\There tlils John MoGrcw. sUndy youngman that he wa», loceiU'd a grant of land from the fcveruineni nnd Hc*t^ obout lo clear It of tieea ami undoibmsli First he built, t^lth the as««lsUinec of his a log rabin, and in that humblejhjfne Eleanor'McGiew was boni TIumo«!W llvetl, altsnys letiminlng lt;Io«ir u» lin fnntjit homo Burronndecl by Hr little rlOAi-In^V^ she would not suffn at the ha tula of the Indians and the wild uolnifll^ whlcli roamed Lli^' wood«» SubRi*5tiug on the most frugal tnoals, ooiisi«lt;tlng piin-dpally of coinbrcad and tho moat of the wild deer. tiirkc\s. wild pigeons and beai killed by her fatlier In tho fon'sts and the fleh he caught In the stroaing, the llUk flrl thrived and grew to vvumfinlHwd There WfiB one brolhor, Jnines iMi.Grow, who^ after h^ reached mnnliood, Went farther west into Illinois' Thejo woie fttfo 9[x sisters, only three of whom, Mia Ccfmbtn, because of her loss of rnrmorv In recent yoara. can now recall Thebv three sisters, MolHe McGrow, I’eggv-Mc-Orew and Kalte McGi'Cw, nuiiHod *ind 4rtfted away... All trace of tlvm bosbeen Idit.Mrs. Combes mairlcd Morgan Gamblll,a young man of the %vdldr-*inrsH and tUo•on of an early Urceno Coiinlv pUmcf'i, when she was 20 years of age Hcifather, with his fnmily, had moved fiomWMhingtoii Couijry to Groeiu* Countv, their farm comprislim that stilp oj Kiouml which Is the present site ct Duggrr, uur of the best mining tow'ns |n the H009I01 ooal fields Mrs Combes had tci^idod on the Greene CxMuity farm ftr six yiais phcf to ^her mcTlagc to Gambill The youug husband recelvH a grant of Innd fsom (he government .and built a log Wbln for his bride A twenty-acre tlcar-tng «as mnde and with that as a stait ibe pair entered upon life’s journev to-NIn# rhlMren were liorn to the union TN husband and father died in VibQ A fgw years later Mrs. aamblll w^a^ rtsd to William Combes The xeooiid hiis-been deed for Throe children were bom to lids union, one of whom died In Infancy Of tho twH\e ohiklren born to Mrs C(?mhes only lt;lv« survive Levi Haniblll. the eldest, is 74 years nf age fin iesidr« on « farm •auth of Duggei. Mts Lurlnda Walters, 72, a daughter, lives on h farm near «ul ||vgn The other surviving children me Wltey Gamblll, ex-commisMonc^i of Hul-Bvan Uounlv, with whom Mrs Com be ^ tMUi been making hoi liome for liie last Uirae years and who Is 60 yearB of «ge, MdTffSr Gamblll, 55. living in the old ^ kMiestaad at Dugger, and Mrs John MMon. M, who lives op R fftrm near rDugger Tl*f» lOmbincd ages of the vjns Wkl daughUrs Is ttT *Uiw Combes lias |hlrly-slx granciohU-ilicn, liftv gi riit-niandvliiklien and twen* tv-fuui Ri('al-gio»il-KlatHllt; lilldren Hv tli« fiist huxbaml Mia Combei’i ohildioiivvete Jo)in (htinihll, who died If typhoid fe\ti the ftnine week the father was sir it ken, I innnah trilffln, who died tvvcmtv veu).. d^v. Lmlrida, wife of Wh-liarn VVnKois. Ell/.a he th Ganibtl), whw died wlien i veius of age. la'vl Gamblll.Wilev GnnhiH, .Mmgan Gambill Ji niul \lciiv Ann Gaiuhlll vvltc of Joseph Goodman \vl ( Ins been ciend ten twentv-live unis riif* (hifdicn liv the »olt;ox)d bus-i^nd. William lt;’omlieh. m ei o WjiJiani Com boa Ji , decen.scd, MMlUani Howanl (’ninlHs uipi Ellon, wile uf Jnhn ^la*'*Ol)01 r^^^sWhen (ac'Ii of Mis Combe.s’.s husbaiids ilie'r]. hlie was l^ft, with ii roinfoitablo In-cnrno rfhe (outlnued 10 reside in Dugger up to tin to venia ago, when i.he was »tik*ken witli grip and was hedfafct for seven wefk» II was then that hei son,‘Wllev Gambill, mnnglitTi^r lo his home, neat Sullivan Foi seven years Mist'ombc* IiHd as her rompanlon In her pomc,hcnic In Dugger a Mi« s.iuih Murray, thewho Win*. huinei| to lt;leath two Venrs ago in a liir which liehtrnyed a lesldeiu'o ni which she was (luployod fid hoioel(eepei.Suiidav, fjlt; t 10. relatives and ft lends to the number of 115 gathered at the Itome of Wiley Uamblll to cGlelira.t* the lOOth onnivereaiy of Mr.s Oornbes's bhth Thu a god wnmKO vvoft In fine epltitfr ami chatted pledsanlly wjlh her filemi*? rind eut(ted hem ttly Into the (lei*s plcnsuie . I found Mrs Combt'^ seated In her jookci at her ^on'sKW'fi f -■lt; i*i\\ 1, /jIAwhere they searched the place for his BOY), without finding him.'T lemembw' seeing the settler^ oi-ganJzing to go to the Mexican war andremember seeing soldiers who yere^ In iXf(OPTO}'TOtZ/JQC/l.zalt;TiA^j:?A9CO T\//Za.toiutnteil and ohecrful With exception of a slight deafness imd falling memoiy she bpars wyll h^i extreme age She la n remAlk-* ably well'preserved woman, and she does not uppcar to be over 70 venra of age, to .■4av the leAM. Sho haa halt;l her eeond oyeslghi,'' ns she l pleased to mil It, and can see comparRtlvoly well without tiie aid of glassqa fihe lefusas to wear^es. you're a stranglt;»r to tne/* she aatd, as I made myself known to her She smiled a sweet, grandmotheily smile when told the oW^ct of the visit and in a modest^way declared she dilt;Jn*t want to be written up Porauafilve argument, howevjr, won, her over Wher asked what part of Kentucky her mother came from she said: Well, I flopH helbvc 1 remcrqber where. I don^tHpcetalt; ios inalnlaln.s a veiy cheer- jcvon remember her laat name. Ker firsttul dlspobltlon, is gcntiinelv witiv and isc^ettlng piactlcHllv as much out of life as main women tiftv vears youngername 'was Katherine, You see 1 wasn't born at tiiat tlmeJ' she added rlt;ulckly with a chuckle and a merry twinkle ofthe e^e, and, of course. I am hardly able to talk of things that occurred at that time/'I do remember seeing the Indians, though,'' slie continued, both when 1 was a little girl and after I was married We never had much trouble with the Indians, for the tribes were friendly In these parts I kept pretty close lo my mother When fathei was itway, because I didn't want the Indians lo get me. After I was mai-Tied it vras often necessaty for my husband to go to mUl at EvansviUo, or to Vlnceiinss or Merom for supplies. At such times I bolted the doors and remained in ihe house with the children. Sometimes he would be gone for clays and, of course, we were all afraid when the wolves howled at night There were lota of bears, and when the Indians came around Iwas particularly watchful I kept a musket within leach all the time The In-r dians never* botheied us, although they passed and lepased oiten when going from one section to anothei.Settlers came into the country every once In a while and located, and the bears and the wolves were being killed all the time Beat meat and ocer meat we lived on thlefly in thosft early days, for a change we had wild f 111 key lt;ind other (owl. I can liear the wolves now as they howled atvnlght on the hills. It wasn't a very pleasant tiling to have wolves, wildcats and panthers provyling about after nightI was too young to rcmembor the wav of ISU, but I remember distinctly William Heniy Harnaon’s oampnign In this state In the early days. I remember that tliey yiO\e- tiylng to get all the settlers Into the aimy at one time,'and a lot of aoidiere—r think there weie eighteen of them—came to my house looking for dosoters Tliey weie also drafting men for the aimy I told them tlteie was no one tlieie and they went away without scart'hing the house. They wanted (0 know vviiere wo kept the guns, but I got out of It without telling them. Then they tv'ent to ihe home ot ^ohn Bledsoe, athat war pass through. I also remember the scenes down here when the civil war was being fought, and I can speak also of the war wltj^ Spain I have livedneighbor llvUtg not far fiom oui place,Defects in the High Schools of IndianaConclusions of Miss Emma R. Chandler of Goshen, After 'Twenty-Three Years of Service as a Principalin^ ojd bolK'f that women should not follow utiy calling c^r pio-fesslon fiiih nt1 wholly been tiadlruted In the present dav. nolwithstniiding Ihoie are now imue women engaged in labor b outbide the homo than over before One (if LlH great levoliillon^ Jiow In prog-Kba H the f nianeipdtlon of woman, ntul 11 Ir being H(AompUshed bv wxnuaii her-xelf Extensive employments are now of-(tfiad to woiufn. hut inobl. of these uro too ]uoriv paid to peimlte woman to compete wdlb man riH a Wage eniii^This Is trite paitlculnily of eclunattona work. (specially in the common schools It appeals that women cue mlt;ne fitted for teaching than men hy eason of iholi nutui/d Itivc foi andunteroM In rhlldien Ihit Mlb^ Eannw n Ch.imllu, fo\ lunulv thiitv VCMFB Identified with the sohoola at Goshen, Irnl , mid tvvcutv-thKr ioara of that time immlpal of the Goshen Jllgh Sthool. hcllovc^ that V'x dues not eiitei into the (jU(?stion Th It a yonn^ woman who ndoptR trarh-lag «s u prufohslon bhould not shun an iippoitunlty to mHnv, no matter how en-giosBCd she inny be In bci W'ojk, is another of MJbh (^handle! % pTonoiincf'fi views Tho mOM honorod and u»oful po^l ativ woman can occupy,*' ♦’aid Mif'S \1iandlor iccontlv, ' 1» at the head of*« wcll-oidored hous(*ho1lt;l Of (ouiHf* we mtjbt havo nur FranceWillaids and otbois of out femlnhiO leader?, but. worn* an'a turn sphere is in tlie homothtrtr -7TO+ ^hsness If thoie is no man tot whom a woman fajcs «u/Tlclciitlv, fhan kIio ought not to many If there is no one wham she could tiuly loYc and honoj. then she should lenmn lu hci proteHsloh, If Bho 1)3B one, and if she has not, then 1 believe islie should got Into oue and make herself oaeful thoc* 1 hold lhat it woiihl he f»ti better for any young woman to be selD Biipportlng lhan to many fni wealth ni support Wr ijave oidlrply too many dl-voicoR now/*.VUmb (’handlci is 7f» years of Age, Hhe ha* n^ivrr married, foi, tiue to hoi principles, she has never met th* man. I? l8 aakl, whom hl\f could tnfiv 1ovo and horki sufficiently to wed. Ifei iAui ot a maa U that ha muet ba ootir-teous. si rang hut gentle, iinnast, fear-loRB, solHi, cconomh'alMl»s (‘''hnndif-r Is a wonum of d^votilf’liiIbllun cnaiuoter i-iUc ha^ Wcfin aBaptist all hei life, and bho believesTlmt no ix’ixim, man m wnmfin, Ib ctuall-lied to icuch ahead unless he ot she la athoidugh Clnisiian‘ Bv so miu-h as moial naluio Is higherthan the hatdhn tiuil,' said she. no oneshould oi‘( upy the pf;ltJou ol a teaolierwho does unt posRCss the alilctest moralbuegiilv A Incl moral Infiucncc is far«^i^moie tlian a.ti offset lo «uny Intellectual taluc une*^nay haVe Teacblng Is a veiy )roper field for wom^m, that Is. If i young, woman jias the piuplt;M llkinft, foi the wmk. iho pioper liking^ tor c.hilciion. the liking t« dtvelu[ them If a vvumnn bus thesi* ijualJtlos and lins th' Incllnntian she should tnxtor the pioffssslon, but If «he hoB not then fdie hart betirr be a dork 01 A stenogiaphoi, 01 Rlioulrt cnler soi^nepi ofcsalonToalt; h( r« do hot get tho salarlos llicv ought to liavp and it Jr for that lomm ►that somoUmes mo don't nave Die best, tcac'licis The success of ednctttlmi, pai-Denial Ij In the grades. 01 In the high school, does not Oeponcl upon hex It dc-]K*ndK /n til eh on (ha individual Kot without (he liglfi kind of nn IndlMdual we can not ha\e the light kind of a SYstOm It Is liavd to find uifn And women with the *i|mr (luabficutious Mon oflon make just as good Instiuvtois in -the-n^wdx-uM-'wAmw-^e -tt-ttd In ifihcr eases women arc ovoty bit ok succors-fill oS wcie men vvlio weic Dudi pu'df''The fmiU toiley with male luatrnctors In high aeh(()]R Is llial Kiev do not le-main In the profesplon Tliey m»iko thcb work merely a stepping slouc to something bettPi The nornbm of men who make toacliing Iholi life woik Is *iUi less than the nuinhci of women who renmin hj,.Uie profession U Ix a fact Ibat In tlu. end onlv JJiose men wlio bctsimo punCipols of high schools 01 superintendents of scbfiol ?*.vsteiTiK lemaln in the profes-Blon -Bpoaklng, of oouisc, of those who are iclenttficd with Die common schools Hiid not thft hlghftr IfiRtUutlonb of Icamlug ''The women who remain In thefesRlon come to their best while a majority of the men do not have lime to do ^0 Many men are etnplovert now in the high Bcbooit* because they can Identify themselves with athlelics, whUe the women can r\o\. except Jn so far as the girls are pefmltiefi'to ^ engage in athletics.^ Athletics In the high school has He odvantages, but it has very many dis-advantagce Misa Chandler Is a firm iellever in coeducation flhe differs with the Eastcinlt;'ollegc president who (\eolar/'d (hat coeds do not make the best Wivpro-ea Under (he right condition*,** said Miss ('handler, ci)(?ducatlon is tho best and most natural way to eduratlonftl Achievement. Years ago uaoclucotion was unknown, but now nil tho stale universities admit and graduHtn women Thf* very fact Ih.it thin done, I itako it, proves that lt;ocducntlon Is not a (allure Most of our di nomlna-tlotial Insiltutlons ot learning now guid-URlc woinenvMIhb Chandlci'fi long oxpcDcruc In the schools has led her to obsmv* cviU thatliHvo ciopped out In the dcvriopmf'ut of the cducaDoiinl sysleni On om* of these ^hr 1ms some very pronomuod \low8 ' Ou) high school cuurscs nnw, • f^Ahl Rlu. 'AJo too ciowded \Vf unrtottake (00 many tilings. Tho pupils are pnxlurt and (towdod with work Wo ha\* cnlnoly loo innny stuclios in owi omnses It u’uuUl bo far better to have fowri ^tmlloB and give the pupils an lt;ipiKHuu1tY to do llurtr work woie thoioughlv It has boon RHld that (he great majority of our high sohbol pupils ovrrstudi I do not think that the sUt* mcnt holUs good rhc mJijoiity of oui pupils do not over* «%tU(iy, but U 1r n fart that thov lake so many eUuJleR they do not handle each Ihoionghly I)r Stanley CouUor, do an of tho School of Hcloncc at Purdue rnlvrislty. once sDri ol n mot ting of prosldenls and mem-hits of tho fucuUIOB of the vajlons colleges anc| upivcrBities In Indiana, eailed for th«,put pose of rtlaciisslng end nnlv-lUg at fi uniform method of donllng wdth Btudcmt dl«honRlv, that (ho avoings high school student corner lo (ollege well VO) sod In oheatlBg. In a msasuroMies Ghandler agrees with Dr. Coulter So many pupils said she, are satisfied with baroly sliding through I have no criticism for our teachers or our school offlol«H, as they are doing the hast they, can to deal with tho bUuutlon. Tho groat majority of them aie working oonsoien-tioualy I do not think we have as high a conception of the helpfulness and mmal Infiuenoo at the teachers In the grades, eapeclaljy as It benefits the lower claaoea, as we ought to have. The public does not appreciate the teacher’s trials as it should. “Miss Chandler holds a record for Indian^ when It comes to loiTg service in tho schools. During her service she saved and w'as oblo to purchase (i neat little home c^n one of Ooahen'Stprlnclpal streets. There she resides with but one compan-» being i Ion, a woman friend of long acquMntanc^. Miss Chandler retired from the schooD fointecn ycatA Ago, but she Is still vorv active and now devotes ht»r time to sewing By reason of her advnneod age she holds the record for being the oldest active Spinster lu the slate She is a woman of cxcopDonn] Intellect Hnd retinofnent She la loved by every one In Goihen The ptinolpies upon which she established the Goshen IJIgh School Imvc been thoroughly ingrained in thal eommiinKy Tlieso pilnolplefl werethoruuglmoRa. aeturacy and lt;onsclentloue effort She bspi long oxerrlsed a quiet and unobtiuslve Influence She has lived tu srr a mslorlty of tho WS pupits who gnifhitUOcl from the high school while Bhe WHS pjiiitlpal succeed In life and she has watched tholr c.ireeiR with Interest There were but two graduates the first year that she hart chaigr of the. high school At Die pusent (Ime the Scliool is graduat-ItiK from twenty in Ihirty students each ycai The populatlim of Oosbeu has (Vmbled elnco Bht came to the dly unrt Ihoro rUe now four times as many Btn-rtiMilH enrollrrt in tlie high nchool At the time silo organlRcd the high RChoo) Goshou had but one achool building Now there are seven. Miss Chandler wan vir-ttmlly tho lilgh school Kself U\ Its carlv days She taught niatlicinRUes, Latin, English literature and the gd-encss ;^be was the only teacher.foiAmong thope who received a portion of their education under her tutelage werK Judge FjAnclg Baker of (he FeUaial Court, Ed win W. Ifnwkg, now the head ^ l£iIS^fnrnUjiTf ' establii hmeiil In Ooshen, A W 'Zook, who repicsentQd Elkliart County in (he Lftgjslalure;Thomas 0. Cunningham, now « prominentand successful bualiiep$ man of KanBasCity, Mo , Frank W Hawke, a prominentbii^ineBS man at Neena, Wis , Walter CGortner, who was pilvau* secretary at one 1%time to the Go%ernor of New Mexico. H.II. Ooctncr, a sutoessful haidware dealerIn Goshen, Will C Peters, u wealthyresident ot Gobhen unrt coiinfc.ted withthe telephone company there; HarryBishop, an olflror In thn United Statesarmy, Will K GoUner, a prominent busLness man of Lab Vegas, N M , Clarent.eE Ilydo. lumber dealer In South Bend,MortoJi E Stevcna, a wealthy lesldeni ofAlaska, Jacoi) Wayii, manager of theGoshen Buggy Top Company's plant;Charles E. PLittlo, an oiticlul of the SantaFe Ibvilroad, living at Ft. Madison, Ja..George K Harpo, a prominent attorneyof Goshen, and num*^rou» otheie.Miss Lillian E Michael, who was ub-Rodntcd with Miss Chandler when shewus Identified with the Goshen schools,Is now the Rupeilntendeiit Miss Ohand-Iri chose to retire father tiuui accept theHupei Intendency Miss Cnandler firntiixXmo to (3oflhen in the fall ot li6fi fjlie renfalned four months and returned to Ml HolyoR^f where Bho complelctl her Btudles Then she tuuglit o:k' jeai lu South Bend and. another yeivr in_5Yan divine, III Ustiulng to Goslien she taught foi two vears in Ihr public anhools For ft time *be was emploverl as an Instruotor In a eohegiftie institiUlon and later opened a prlVvite school in Goshen with hei «!iBler, Mrs A. K Pollock This school WHS conducted foi severftl yeius In tho fall of 1871 tho public .schools of Goshori were giaded and MIrb Chandlci’s private sc hool was Incoi parnted with D)em as (loshon’R first high school. MissOhandlRi was made pijnclprtl,*MIrs Chandler's father was John Oinndler, a resident of Westport, N Y Vho young women followed sisters and oouslns wdio came West In (he early days to teucli A cousin. Miss Jajie Hammond, of, Wcsliwt. N Y, WAS one of thgscthrough five wars. Neither of my hus-bpfide WAS a soldier •Mrs Combes neither leads nor wrttes. She says that in the days when she was a girl the people in her locality did not bellevo in education for women. She is a warm advocate of education for women At the present time, however. Not with-(jtanaing that she has lived for a centuryIn Indiana, in the midst of a most remarkable progress in civilisation, Mrs. Combes has never made a trip on a pas-sender train She sees several trains pass her home each day, and she says she often wonders where alt thoSe people are going. Her children have coaxed and argued and tried Jn eveiy way possible to gel her to board a train, but she will not do so, frankly admitting tliat she is afraid to ride on one Notwithstanding that she has lived for three years within three-quarters of a mile of the southern terminal of the Terre Haute-SulUvan Inter-* urban line, Rho has never in her life seenan InUrurban oar. She has never been oulBldc of Sullivan. Washington and Greonc Counties, and has never been In t city larger tlinu the seat of government in each lt;f these rounues She ha« ne\er seen a street car and she has never seen ^ steamboat Sho is content to remain at home In peace and comfortTf 1 went away, she said. Id have to ride on the (rain, and for that reason I won’t go Tvo (ilwayB had too irmch to do to Tide aronnd 011 the curs any tow Mrs Combes has never been inside • store in SulUvun ^Her second husband helped with' tlu* grading for the railroad now known as the E T H the orlgr Inal road, being oonstrurted maiiv vears Ago Her first husband, Morgan Gam bill, iiover saw a (rain He used oxon, yoked together, to do tho plowing and hauling on lUB farm. ,Mra Comhns cats but two meals a day, hegmntng with hrrakfast nnd ending with the noon meal Bho has dlt;V)« this for mony ycarR and bell eves it is reaponslble her cDuUTnjed good health. ‘Tf 1 eataupper, she said, i ran not sleep at night Without oatlng supper I ran sleep Ilk© d logEats Cornbread at Each Meal and Drinks but Little CoffeeliJi y«v-ijnr, t. i.kcc uitckoherA scut Weai to supply the demandbv (lovernor VVIlllrm Blade of Vermnul, M publlc-Bpirltert oltizrn who Advanced to tb^ tcaohers inonev sufflcirni lo rome WRSt and get r start It Wfts throuMIbb Htmmond’R Influeprq that Chandler lecured her potUloTi,oughMUflUnlike many pioneer women, she has never used tobacco or amiff. Her two husbands used tobacco and lAised all they needed Her song • have aUo used tobacco.The only prominent man Mis. Comb(-evn saw was Senator Driniel W. Vooi bees.Mrs Combea haa been a member of th© Church of Christ fit Antioch for half a century, and up to five years ago sh© never miflscd a Sunday at church eervloei. She walked to lt;hurch evcTy Sunday In the early doys, often canying or leading her children the full five miles distance to the meeting houseShe WHS known a« an expert with the loom and the spinning wheel hiit tiftver in her Hfo han she used a sewing machine. She contends that can do belter by hand than any sewing machine that wa« rvht made, and she becomes disgusted with (he (lotUing made nowadays by machine I y cvnv time n icnt is to be SOMO.H up^.^Sh© is .still able to sew without (he aid of glRssos. b'lt It la always Tiacessuiy for some one Lo tliiead th© needle for her She has not been doing niuch acwlng or knitting of late, howeverMfH tjombps cats corn breaci with Qvery meal Sho drinks vcrv little coffee, A cup at breakfast is sufficient for her, Throughout her lllneBS thiecThroughout her tilneBS tniec veara ago her vfullty astonished everybody, She liQR had to consult a physician only twice within the last three years After her Illness with the gtlp It waa found that she could not walk aud aho was taught to walk Again In mult;h the same manner as a child is taught. Whllo lenrning to wnik she kept herself on lier fed bv holding to the )ftck of a chaii, whlrh she pushed before ler. She has never mlssfd a meal in her life beeanse of illneSH Never has she been so sick that she could not o^t something The aged woman s life Uos been ftUl of self-Hacrlflee, Hot one'ambition was torear ft ftimlly of ,useful, honorable And uprlglit cltlsens end Ohri^tlan men ?ind women, and In this noblest of ideals, that of motheA'hood, she feels that *h© hte. Bueoeeded. What more can th# stgt© of Indiana Ask of any womaaS,•0VA.'».1
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Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sun, Oct 24, 1909
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