Show alm a nos on r JD dun a 1 I t woman inmate of poor farm acquires 25 to save body from potters field Mar markville maryville mo alm miss bliss annit anna curless has been an of tho the nodaway godaway county infirmary for 63 years and during tile the time sho she lias has seen a number of bodies taken away from the institution and turned over to medical colleges the thought of this fato fate for herself so worried her that she took steps to save herself from such a fate although practically without relatives or friends through 12 years yeara of hard labor at making quilts qullia during her spare time she tins lias imaged to amass 25 and with it has purchased n lot in the miriam cemetery whore where silo sho hns has been assured by the infirmary officials sho she will be given a regular burial silo sho knows now that no medical students will get nn an opportunity to work dvork on her body for experimental purposes purpose tells of Str struggle to get 25 with quivering lips miss curless told of the hard efforts she had made to acquire tile the occasional dinie dime quarter and half dollar through quilting until she had accumulated tile the necessary dollars to make tho the purchase of the cemetery lot friends and charitable institutions in learned of her ambition and she was aided by them to the ex tent that they gathered gatli ered quilt pieces and sent them to her at the poor form farm it was s slow low work for miss curless whose fingers had become stiff in ili her old age but she lid did not give up tip vor several years it seemed ns as if her f fund unit was growing awfully slow but after she had gathered together 10 the remainder of the money seemed to come somewhat easier it was in 1011 that miss curless first began to make her quilts the finished products were sent to all parts of the united states first inmate of farm miss curless Is the first person ever admitted to the county farm and she has been under the regime of 10 superintendents Intent lents she has seen inmates of the institution die with no relatives relative es or friends in the world and no tears no flowers no songs at the funeral simply an entry in a an n looking book marked the end of a life those who die at the farm are burled buried over the hill or tire are sent to a dissecting room that some medical students may become acquainted with tho the human body it was to escape all this J that miss bliss curless worked for 12 years to save 25 with which to purchase the cemetery lot she never attended a school of any kind but slie she has learned to read by t the le use of newsy newspapers apers and books she remembers nothing of her parents ond and lier her childhood days were spent in sorrow silo she was fifteen years old when slie she came to the badaway county institution and now sho she Is an old woman well along on tho abo downward hill 0 of f life altogether she has I 1 led d a contented life during that ba half f cen tury period |