Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-10-26 | Page 17 | Murray 'First Lady' Nearing 101st Mark

f ' ' I . .. . B " TrtSM-Telsa rfcdti WW ;'J'm Getting Youngtr...' . ' Mrs. Ann Catherine Milne; who observes her 161st birthday Thursday, Thurs-day, still ss active, even te point ef sweeping her front porch. 'Rose-Tinted World' ; Murray 'First Lady1 Nearing 101st Marie I The so-called "good old days" i are just a memory of a "big headache" to Mrs. Ann Catherine Milne, ahe aaid Wednesday as she prepared to observe her 101st birthday Thursday. The short, humorous Mrs. Milne, who was born in London, England, Oct. 27, 1848, Thursday will be older than Salt Lake City. "I don't suppose I can get any older," ahe laughed, deepening her wrinkles, "ao I'm starting to get younger again." Blind totally for 10 years and partially blind for 15 years, gray-haired gray-haired Mrs. Milne learned Braille I at 89. She had an operation at j 91 which restored her sight in i one eye. Rose-Ttated World "Since then it's like looking at the world with rose-colored glssses, she said in thankful tones. Her daughter, Mrs. C O. Hamb-lin, Hamb-lin, whom she Uvea with at 47 K. 4800 South, aaid her mother was amazed when she opened her eye to such a world of color. "I now read the newspepera every day," she said. She knows j about atomic bombs, television, I hard work, fast automobiles and hardships. She la not too optimistic opti-mistic about permanent peace. If peace can be achieved, she thinks the United Nations la the only hope. She hasn't yet seen television, but of ell the Inventions Inven-tions she thinks the telephone la the greatest. She has takes aa airplane ride. ' Hiked From Nebraska ' The grand old lady ef Murray arrived in Boston in 1857. She rode a train westward as far aa lit went and walked from Nebraska Nebras-ka across the plains to Utah settling set-tling in Salt Lake City in 180. Her group camped where the city and county building stands. She said she Joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England. With her family she settled la St. George la 1861, where she said ahe "knew Brigham Young very welt" Mrs. Milne will be honored at a family dinner Thursday at 6:80 p.m. at her home. She haa 82 grandchildren. 80 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-granoV I children. She haa two sons.'