Show 7 1 1 a W i I 1 M r F et y 04 WIL P 1 nii wiy I 1 as fix sri 1 W fal 1 a I 4 ax I 1 11 SHE 1 Z s SELLS 2 auw FOUNTAIN fain I 1 t it sk the abe devenne We venne coma ce to I 1 achet t her she say sam elmr mei from the atlanta constitution betsy millions Is 18 the largest woman omari ln in Tenn tennessee essM she lives in AL little 10 log 9 house acae on top of New mana mang ridie ridge in the mountains of hancock county where she earns a living liy by the sale of t illicitly distilled whisky in open defiance of the government officers WHO haye hats ume time and again been sent to arrest her but lave have never been success fal M her avoirdupois is about so ronnda and this accounts tor for the woman uit never having been arrested it was in the fall fail of the year just jus t passed that I 1 visited the mullens home in company with the revenue officers from knoxville the place where she lives Is sixteen miles from the railroad and by no means eav easy of access As you near the toot foot of the ridge where the woman lives you can see her cabin F on the WP top A conveyance cannot wend its way VRY to the home and an d those who wish to see the largest woman in tennessee and one who has caused more talk than any other woman in me state have to leave their conveyance behind and make it on foot up the steep mountain side approaching Approach IM the house the first thing out of the ordinary which attracted ray my attention were four mounds in the back yard which upon inquiry I 1 learned were the graves of her husband and three sons the latter having given up their lives in mountain fights and had been burled buried in the yard where the mother could turn from her bed in the little house and gaze at the spots which contained beneath their grassy sod all that was mortal of those who were so near and dear to her por for years the woman has hrc been bedridden not that she is sick but her immense size in such that she is unable to walk or move around like other people her husband was for years an invalid and the family was without visible means 0 of f support until betsy conceived the idea of selling whisky there are any number of illicit stills in the mountains near by and just across the line in kentucky and with their operators betsy made arrangements tor for her supply of mountain dew it is brought to her in stone jugs and from her bedside she can reach down and pour out any amount of whisky which the patrons of her place may desire in open defiance of the law has mrs millions carried on this method of ai liquor selling for years the federal grand jury has indicted her time after time and officers have been sent to arrest I 1 her but that was all they won would id come to her bedside and serve the papers but could not take her to court or to jall jail her size baffled them it would take halt a dozen strong men to carry car her out of the house and when the outside was reached thea the would not be able to get her to the road at the bottom of the ridge as it is impossible to get a wagon to the top where her cabin is located every time the officers call at the house she sh simply laughs and says take rake me 11 you can the officers cannot take her and that is the end of it IL in mrs mul M allens aliens will be found the personification of ignorance her knowledge of tho the world is confined to a radius of three miles of her home she was born bom near the place where she lives and has as never been off the ridge nevez saw the little county town of taze i well the county seat of tazewell county and has never seen a railway train although she is at present near tug ins the fiftieth milestone of her monotonous life she delights in having visitors call to see her and talks inter es tingly during all the years that mrs mullens has been confined to hex ha bed she has seen her three adus and husband pass to the beyond she could not attend the funeral services at the th little church which is situated several miles from her home and the funeral services if such they might be called were held in the rooms where tm mother and wife lay on the bed and their bodies were laid to rest just outside the door in the back yard where she could witness the interment tile the woman takes her misfortune good natu and says that she will continue the we sale of whisky until her time tim to the die has come and then she took too expects to be laid to rest beside the bodies of her husband and kaaa us in the little plot in the back yard known as the family burying ground of the mullens family |