Manti Messenger | 1905-08-10 | Page 6 | Oldest Woman in America

OLDEST WOMAN IN AMERICA daiter mathew mathews claiming to be year years of age dead tho the oldest person la in augusta va find land probably tho the oldest in tho the united state states ie Is dead from old age easter Mal was her name she waa was a colored woman and lived at 91 new now rine her lier age was year years aunt haster vaster as aho she was called WM wu born in n 1770 and in slavery ehe she belonged to a it number of kroml nent families of the tile city she had tor for her laal last caners a tho the clatha family and fhe the often spoke of turner clay I 1 ton too in her last das da one of the ways tho the old woman bad had of 0 telling her ale u was as that ehe she re several pars ears before the baptist church was built ila the eft and this institution ie Is years old she claimed that she re when tho the spot where the church BOW now stands aas in tho tile swamp