OCR Text |
Show 3 1 1 WOMAN WHO ANTEDATES j REVOLUTIONARY" WAR DIES Ta CHICAGO, Feb. 24. Sophia a , Gab whose birth antedated the Jfil Bevolutlonary war, if her asser- 3. t!on3 were correct, and who was -f 31 , opposed to have been the oldest Ell tfoman in Chicago, Is dead at the Cfl I tome for the aged and Infirm col- , cr people. She was 129 years asSff 1 fl!i. . 'i&W According to the aged woman's y statements, she was born in Yir- 5 I pinia In 1775, before the Declara- -f- vl ti0D of Independence. She lived -f U j, on tne plantation where she was ft born until freed by the proclama- 4- i tion of President Lincoln. fi ! |