Show OLDEST WOMAN MAN IN AMERICA Easter East K M Mth Mathews th the vs s Claiming to Be Be 1 Years ears ars of Age Age Dead The rhe oldest person person- in Augusta V Va A and and- probably the oldest in the United States is dead from old old- age Easter Mathews was was her ner name She was was- wasa a colored woman and lived at 91 New Pine street Her age was years Aunt Easter as she was vas called was born In 1770 and while in slavery she she belonged belonged to a number of prom prom prominent vent nent families of the city She had bad fo for her last owners the Clayton family and she often spoke of Turner Clay Clay- ion ton in her last days One of the ways the old woman had of ot telling her age was that she remembered re re- several se years ears before the Springfield Baptist church was built buUr in the city and this institution is years jears ear old She claimed that she remembered remembered re te when the spot where the church now stands was vas in the swamp |