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WHATELY — Miss*Maria: Crafts, the oldest person in Whately, will observe her 92nd_ birthday. Thurs day....Miss_Crafts.. belongs to one of the old families of the town and has spent practically all her life here... She is the daughter of the late Caleb..and..Rkunice (Bardwell) Crafts, and is one of five children who reached maturity. One, sister died at the age of 20, but the rest dived to old. age,.one, sister, Mrs. Dencie Stoddard, dying two years ago at the age of 92, while one brother died soon after at the age of1.. Miss Crafts lives with another brother, Warren, at his farm ‘on North street. She has retained all rommer sound—leons hayce—fan. her brother with “practically — no help... She was-always-a-busy wom an. to which fact’ she attributes her. remarkable health.’ She took care of her mother who lived to the age of 68, and later took care of her older sister until almost the last of her life. ~ wt. . While Whately fia been Miss* Crafts home, she has lived for a vig. jn..New, Orleans,..has stayed with relatives, in Rockford, I., and Manchester, Mich, ¢ and seven years ago spent a winter in California. Shortly after the civil war she went to New Orleans to visit her sister, Mrs. Stoddard and later went back and taught school there for three Perera Shevl ext nnd Theirs trade in Conway,” and opened her own._dressmaking —shop--in- South Deerfield, working for the people in that town as well as Whately and vicinity. One of her ‘customers was Mrs. “Jim Fisk, wife of the New York speculator, after Mrs. Fisk moved from ‘Brattleboro to, Brad ‘street, Miss. Crafts: ‘has several ‘nephews and nieces who are very devoted to te one eens eens nat Crafts piee is fame. te: cor a chem and ‘those living near enough are TWeQaeie visitors.”
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Greenfield Daily Recorder Gazette
Greenfield, Massachusetts, US
Wed, Aug 23, 1933
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