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Show IS REAL DAUGHTER V OF THE REVOLUTION ATT.AKTA. Oa., July 14. Mra. Mary T raw irk Proctor, Hi years old, a real t Daughter of tho Revolution, haa Just roen discovered In a humble one-room cabin In Bartow county. Georgia. Hor solo i companions are her daughter. Ulee Meiry Proctor. 0 yea re old, and two great -grand-children, descendant of another daughter. I Mrs. Proctor waa bom In Wake county, North Carolina, April to. U00. When 9 years old she married Hiram Proctor, a veteran of tho Revolutionary war. and tho war of lSlt. She haa Uve4 under tho administration of 26 preeldenta Including John Adama and William H. Taft. On a bedding of at raw, constituting a mattreae so thin that the rouah plank slats can bo seen, this Daughter of tho Revolution Ilea, her form emaci'4 akin wrinkled and almost a skeleton. Her aged daughter administer to the wants and r.eceaalOee of tho Utile household and . betlmee tills the e"M In a small sot ton and garden patch' near by. - The meagre profit a derreod from thto labor she aide to the $12 a month Mra. Proctor mcelvea for tho services her boa-band boa-band rendered tn tho war of 1S1S. A movement baa been started In Atlanta to raise fund eufftclent to provide for tho two old women tho root of their Uvea. |