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Show "I never seed luai," she sara, uc i knows when he as general, and I knows when he was president, too. I heerd Mars Colo say when de tea was flung outen de Boston ship. . I has seed da Tories, an' my brother was wid Mars Cole when he went into de war wid de Britishers. Dat war was seven years, and Mars Cole he got shot in de arm. I membere when dey fit de French an' Injuns, In-juns, too, sir." It took quite a while to get all this out of the aged creature, who 13 very feeblo. She had only one want smoking tobacco and that was supplied, after which the writer left her at Iter low, hairy trunk putting away her documents. Cor. St. Louis Republic. 5T WOMAN IN THE WORUD. ran Who Has Document Showing That She Was Born In 1745. lie northeastern portion of DalttR; between Bryan and Live Oak j. and fronting the Houston and. Central railway, lives Aunt July who has but recently grown too take iu washing. The cabin in she lives is a rude hovel, and yet tptas neat as a pin. It is sur-1 sur-1 by a dozen huts of the same though not so well kept, all hud-ijether hud-ijether in an irregular colony, lihvay people have forced their jf way with barbed wire to keep roe of pickaninnies off the track, i fain. They crawl through the of the fence and gather upon the n such numbers that the cautious w finds it necessary on passing h Freedmantown to use both bell histle. '- the train had passed tho other w Republic man crawled through fence, mid with difficulty found m of the "Olo Furginny Aunty." r in a low chair and smoked a blue As she raised her face slowly t wrinkled features were first writer involuntarily asked him-sttaJive?" him-sttaJive?" When she ipoke her wsaud cracked voice increased ishmcnt. But it was not only 1 at it smoked and talked, name is July Cole," she said. "I ' J to Col. Cole in Furginny,- and Britishers wid Glen. Washing-'M-folkwas my homo, sir; right f8, v mtnmy como from do Afriky, and i,.y daddy went "e. Jiy nianitny was named i, and was give to Col. Cole bv ungton's lady, who had many I was brought to Henry iennessee, and sold to Thomas ' I had great-gi-andchillun den. wiped to settle Tennessee I was "ihiam Rabb for lan'. Mars : e lo take me home to Tennessee, an Eabb wouldn't let me go - Den I lived on Eabb's Creek, u drange, Tex. I was took away 'iisband and two chiUun in and my ole man he run away ;ed me till dey caught him wid v 011 de b-rnks of de Mississippi es, sir, right dar in de bed of ' whar ae biU is and de high . "f-Shtdowjiby do boat in de rhi wasrunnin' to git fn tie 1 me But dey caught 'im and I "riv niorB-" , " fketl htr ice tne uld woman ; "se dowly, holding, in tho Je to the chair for support. tknow by de figgers, but I ;-7 happening" she said She y an old trunk,' which was cov-'awhide cov-'awhide with the hair on and big headed brass tacks. : , drw an old letter on blue 'Whsbe says was "de paper" Mars Waters by Mars Cole when ; Only the lower half of the T""'' the other having evidently on l1' tiwe-antl tho only legi-" legi-" of the writing purports to give ,Aunt July's birth. The only . a.s bom Dec 19, 1745." ;ier(had heard that she was 145 "'. ?f coue be beheved noth-' noth-' The appearance of the or l the evidence produced by fflte age were astonishing. ol er hundred and forty-e' forty-e' an', honey, I spec" it is so." -Tur earliest remembrance, ru remember Gen. Wash- |