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By far the queerest hutiuin being In Bibb county la an old negro womanwho Uvea in a tree about two miles* from Reid’s station. In the southern portion of the county, seven or eight miles from Macon.The only name the woman has ever been known to have is Aunt Dorcas, and the few people wtsa whorr. she talks never atUrvw her In any other way.Aunt Dorcas is about 80 years of ago, end has been living in the tree as fur tvtek «» th* iw»tUr« Inpart of the ooumy can remember. Where she came from no one but herself knows and the few who know hor well enough do not dure ask her. Judging from her appearance, Aunt Dorcas would not weigh over ninety pounds and her Mttle. old, dried-up form la misshapen, while her fnoe looks more like the phlrtlognomy of u gonllu than that of a numan being. Her eyes are act ao Isc back in her head that they can hardly be aeen except by close scrutiny. They are aa bright aa diamonds, however; and greatly resemble those of a snake, perhaps the most hideous part of the old woman are her hands, which look like the c-laws of a wild beast. The linger mils sfe nearly an inch In length and are as turd and *i.nrp ■* * knife blade. She hns never be.*n known to wear shoes and her dousing Is notning but rags she has gathered at odd time*.The tree in which Aunt Dorcas lives Is an unusually large white oak, the brunches of which are still alive, but hollow at ib? base. The tree u about tive fesit In diameter and the hollow Is about three and a half feet in diameter. The opening through which Aunt Doroa* makes Micro** and egress is about eighteen inches wide and four feet nigh. The tree is on the edge of a swamp near a dense can? brake, where few people ever go.
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Macon Weekly Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Thu, Feb 08, 1894
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