Show GREAT RESPECT IS J SHOWN FOR AGE From the tho Tacoma Wash News PORTLAND Or July 4 4 Special Ore Oregon on claims the honor of counting countin emon among its residents the tho oldest white whito woman woman wo woo wooman man in America Mrs rs Mary Olary Ramsey Lemons Wood and in the tho celebration of the fourth of wide state importance Mrs Wood aged aed 1 lO 0 years 1 month and 15 days was cr crowned queen of Ore Oregon on The coronation was p performed by b- Gen ten George Georgo H. H Williams attorney general under President Grant and the only li in living representative o of at that cabinet General Williams is in his fifth eighty year car Ho He was assisted by lIon Hon J J. J D D. Leo Lea eo president of tho the Ore Oregon on Pioneer association Mrs Irs Wood was born at Knoxville Tonn Tenn May 20 1787 1767 She was twice married her first husband Mr I Lemons emons dying ving d in 1839 In 1852 she moved from Missouri to Ore Oregon on settling in in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington county where she sU still nf 1 makes her home borne rid riding on horseback the entire way Mrs 1 Wood married her second husband John Wood May 28 1854 Of her dor four children all of or whom lived to ripe old age only one is today in living and that is tho the youngest child Mrs Irs Catherine B B. Southworth Reynolds who was vas born in in 1830 Mrs Wood is of En English ancestry her tier parents first settled in the Carolinas Caro Caro- linas Unas and afterward removed remond to Ten Her mother died at the remarkable remarkable remark remark- able age ate of This remarkable antiquarian antiquarian anti now weighs pounds is a good conversationalist and speaks about the career of Napoleon Bonaparte who was as a lad of 18 when she sho was born as though those things happened yesterday yester yester- day She Sho was a mature woman of 34 when Napoleon died and her youngest child was born only nine years after fter his death At tho the time of th the death of Geor George o Washington she was W 12 years old and nd Daniel Webster if jf ho he were ere living living liv liv- iD ing would be only five years rears older than Mrs Wood Frederick the Groat Great of Prussia as well as Benjamin Franklin were still living liying when she sho was vms born She was a mother before tho birth ir h of Abraham Lincoln and aud W W. E. E Gladstone and she sho was twice a mother before Horace Horace Hor Hor- ace Greeley Charles Sumner or henry Henr Ward Bee her came into the world As there thero are instances s of grandmothers at the atc ago of 31 31 Mrs Ir Wood nOli was old enough to have havo been the tho grandmother of Queen Victoria or Julia Howe and she is 37 years yean older than Gen George G orge H. H am who crowned her queen of Ore Oregon on she sho could easily have ha M n his grandmother tho the same famo is true as to Edward Everett Hale Halo or Senator I Pettus of Alabama V General Williams' Williams coronation address foil follows 0 On behalf of the citizens of Portland Portland Port Port- land an anti and as a J. part of tho the celebration of f the one ono hundred bundred and first thirty an an- of tho the Declaration of Independence Inde inde- I have havo the honor to crown cron I you as ns queen of Ore Oregon on Si so far as advanced ad ad- years ear and the tho re respect pelt anI and veneration veneration ven yen oration of the people can cm make you such sucha a queen As a young man of 84 years of a age e I am proud of the opportunity n lY to confer this distinction upon a a. lady who is o old od d enough to be bo mv my grand giand- mother I do dp not there Utere is ia a person now living living- in this country who V was S living as RS you were ben George eorge Washington was waK inaugurated president of the tho United States I con congratulate you upon the tho pleasure you must feel in meeting your our frien friends s a and d nei neighbors who have a assembled to do yu honor bonar and I hope you may have that peace which I the world cannot give ivo in tho the closing closing scenes of our four Ion long and eventful e life |