Pioneer Spirit Lives on in Maryland Woman Farmer at 76
Alice Se. Willard, 76, drives her own tractor and tends farms near Camp David in the Catoctin Mountains. She cooked with a heavy 1932 wood stove, stored supplies in a root cellar, and values one‑room schooling while recalling elder community discipline.
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Thurmont
Alice Se. Willard
Miss Willard
Catoctin Mountains
Camp David
Alice
Philip’s Delight
Consolidated Schools
Union Grove News from Gladewater Mirror items
Ruth says they will stay here until Mr Thompson gets a call to a new job. West Mt church hosts visitors and a birthday dinner in Mt. Pleasant for Mrs Beckie Reynolds. Mrs Mary Jo Harville hosts. Beckie’s birthday is Feb 10 but surgery planned that day. Scout Week noted as Jeffery Aldridge in Scout uniform. Funeral for Paul Kennemar in Avinger. Mrs Louis Wayne Clark to Baylor Hospital for surgery. Local updates on illness and homecomings at West Mt Church. House purchase on O’Byrne cut-off noted. Flu cases and illnesses among locals. Essie hospital stays.
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Leonard Gunter
Church of Christ
Gladewater
West Mt
Veterans Hospital
Memphis
Tenn
Gunter
Darwin Smith
Garland Smith
Dallas
Ruth
Becky
I. L. White’s
Mt. Pleasant
Billy Reynolds
Jams L. Aldridge
Judson
Jeffery
Austin Davis
Paul Kennemar
Avinger
W.L. Pritchett
Pritchett
Winnsboro
Lee Higgins
Isa Phillips
Fannie White
Cullie O'Bryan
C. P Berry
Lou Watson
Mason Phillips
O’byrne
Highway 271
S. S. Bowden
Nell Brinkley
Mary Lou
Essie
Gilmer Hospital
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Stove
Foxville
Bertelle McCrary
M.H. Thompson
Hulan
Gilmer Highway
Gilmer School
Thompsons
Houma
THE
Gladewater Mirror
Union Grove News
M. P. Aldridge
Louis Wayne Clark
Clinton Clarks
Baylor
Hes
P.O
Clinton
Iowa
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Vulvg
Og “Lawen
Aan
Iulaer Oo
Charmin
de Monte
USDA
HIVE
Crisco Oil
Jack Boone
Ogi
del Monte
Ewe
Folger’s Coffee
Neuhoff
Franks
NHI
Korn Kist
Wed
Presco
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