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MAMMA MESSLER 10 CELEMATE HER Mtfc BIRTHDAT OCTOBER 20.Mn, Stuinoh Wall Drfwler, oldest woman in Medina county, lives in Wadsworth at the home of her daughter, Mrs. U. H Wearstler. She la 98 years old and is fondly looking forward to Oct. 20, when her relatives and close friends are to gather ahout her and help celebrate her ninety-ninth birthday. She also wants to live to be IOO years old.Almost 99 years ago Mrs Dressier*s parents came overland to Ohio in an ox cart from Pennsylvania. All of the boys and girls who were her friends away back there have passed away. Many have been dead a half century.Her general health is remarkably good. She has lived at the pretty home of the Wearstler family for a number of years. Everybody in Wadsworth knows the old lady.She has been in the habit of retiring at S o'clock every night and is ready for breakfast with the rest of the family at 7 o'clock, or even before. She usually sits down for a nap in the forenoon and the aftcrnoou, but has not been in the habit of lying down daring the daytime,Mrs. Dressier has taken a delight in assisting about tbe bouse, notwithstanding her advanced age, and has helped mnch duitug the last winter. During the last cold weather the anow on the ground seemed to affect her eyesight, bnt more recently it is said that she has not suffered from this trouble.Tbe family of Mrs. Dressier baa been known for longevity and ahe has enjoyed almost perfect health up to wttbin the last few years, when her age began to tell upon her. Her maiden name was Brouse and she was born Oct. 20, 1812, in Chippewa township, Wayne county, a half mile from the Medina county line. Here she lived until her marriage to Isaac Wall, iu 1834, when they settled in in the eastern part 01 this county, most of her life having been spent in Wadsworth and Sharon townships. With her her husband she settled on the Wearstler farm iu Sharon, on which Jacob Derr now resides, when this district was unbroken foiest land.The distance from this farm to the home in which she had been raised, in Wayne county, was 12 miles aud Mrs. Dressier frequently has related her experiences in traveling with an ox team between the two places. Few are now living who cau relate such interesting stories as Mrs Dressier of the diffcultiea with which tbe early settlers of tha county had to contend.Mrs. Dressler’s life has been spent in the county. Her first husband died in 1870. Nine years later she was married to Renben Dressier, who lived only six yeara after the marriage. For many years Mrs. Dressier has made her home with her children.She has had four children and three of these are living at present. Mrs. U. H. Wearstler and Mrs. William Roth of Wadsworth, and Mrs. Ellen Duley of Doylestown. The only son died in 1901 at Hutchinson. Kans. Mrs. Dressier has nine grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren aud one great-great-grandchild. A picture of the five generations of the family was taken last Saturday. When Mr. and Mrs. Wearstler celebrated their golden wedding auniversary.Amoug those present were Mrs. Dressier, Mr. and Mrs. U. H. Wearstler, Wadsworth Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Derr, Sharon; Miss Ruth and Earl Derr, Sharon; Dwight Derr, Sharon* Mr. and Mrs-William Nirnon, Sharon; Fiank Nitnon, Sharon; Miss Hazel Nitnon, Sharon; Dr. H O Wearsler an 1 wife, Barberton; Mr. and Mrs. IT A. Hartman, Geauga county; Mr4. Kffie Dewey and daughter of Willoughby, Mrs. Ella Duley, Akron.Mrs. Dressier is a member of the Lutheaan church and in her younger years was a faithful attendant at that church.Little Alberta Dewey, aged six years, daughter of Mrs. Effie Dewey of Willoughby, is the one who made up the fifth geueratiou in the picture taken Saturday —Akrou Times.Mr. li go to CO for vete Mrs. 1 Mallet Shanks Mrs. ‘ dsughte B. Caufi Miss 1 milliner in work Mr. at Harrietteral wet Mrs. 1 getting Mrs. lt;niece, h.Miss I to attem has also Mrs. 1 a tenon* convalesMrs ISunday Rev. 1 gational here, to 111. Lit for mini to excell “mighty Tbe si and Rev was well good pri Mr. Cl the honi Officia field 7u( in the vi whether They an not partNORSept h aulingMr.Mi sse Sa turc Richm Mrs last wMcElryuiattend Carl as elec Miss spentSept. over the day nig Ohio Ex that 4.1 children cause th Georg Saturday and fath Rev. F •ee his a vacation Miss school i with hei here we: Lorain, would I Rev. Fe Mr. ai Monday Mr. at parents Miss PeunsylE. O. urday.WaltcSatuadaJohnday.JacobreunionMrs.
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Medina Sentinel
Medina, Ohio, US
Fri, Sep 22, 1911
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