Show 4 WOMAN IS ACTIVE AT Mrs Sarah Brandon of Moundsville W. W Va Ufa Is said by many to be not only the oldest woman of her state but also one of ot the most distinguished Mrs Brandon Is one hundred and ten years of age Is hale bale and h hearty arty and does her own housework washing ironing scrubbing and tends a tiny garden In the rear of her humble home just on the outskirts of the eft city She has seldom been ill during bar hur hurlong long and strenuous career and then only with slight colds headaches and such minor ailments Almost one hundred years ago Mrs Brandon randon but a slip of or a girl while white playing with her little brother suffered suffered suffered suf suf- an accident the marks of which she has carried through life lire The boy and girl were playing Indian and In discharging his crossbow the youngster young ster shot out the right eye of his little lit Ift- tle tie sister This venerable lady was married at atthe atthe atthe the age of fifteen to a man much her senior The couple were then living In Ohio their native state Twenty-three Twenty children two sets of twins blessed their union only one a girl Sixteen of the boys served In Inthe inthe inthe the Civil war fourteen fighting on the Union Union- and two on the Confederate side while all escaped the severe seere actions actions ac ac- ac- ac with their lives Every Everyone one was wounded in battles Evan the youngest youngest young young- est now seventy years old being shot shotor or stabbed 17 times bearing the scars today For producing the most soldiers of any woman for the war Mrs Brandon's Brandon's Bran Bran- dons don's picture adorns the national gallery gallery gal gal- lery at Washington while at Columbus Columbus Columbus Colum Colum- bus 0 O. she has been similarly honored honored honored hon hon- ored by her native state She is a smoker and says that her pipe is her only comfort as the weigh weight I of years bears beam upon her Tobacco of ol the strongest variety is the only kind suited to her taste and her teeth are worn away wh where re she clamps the pipe stem Her husband has long since been dead but ten of her sons still live anc and andall andall all are the fathers of l e families Her oldest now nine eighty-nine boasts that he never suffered a n sick day in his life He is a mill worker and lives at Bellaire O. O Her youngest Evan Evanis is a coal miner and seldom loses a aday's aday's aday's days day's work though he was recently badly mashed by a fall of slate HEI He I has nine children all grown Be Beside ide receiving personal notice from the government for her sons' sons war service the aged woman receives a liberal pension owing to her husband having also been a soldier Each pension pension pen sion day the stooped figure may be seen wending its way toward the county county coun coun- ty clerks clerk's office where where she she receives receive her check then tramping back to her cottage a distance of over oyer three miles Beside this Mrs Brandon also makes makeE her weekly pilgrimage to market re returning returning returning turning with a well filled basket o of 01 vegetables and staples on her arm |