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Show Her reats of Memory. ' "I have heard and read of wonderful Teats of memory," said Mrs. A. H. Brown of this city., "but not one of them was so remarkable as those exhibited ex-hibited by my own mother at 93, the rjge at which she recently died in C;.vi.:c, N. Y. That was her home for 65 years. bi:t was born in Phelps, K. "f.-bo was .'in ardent reader of the Ecnpttires and, having an exceptionally exceptional-ly cl:.n-", vigorous mind, she was able, nt ev,-:7i that advanced age, to repeat word '.or word the entire Gospels of St. ili'.tthew, St. Mark, St. Luke and St. John. In addition she could recite lengthy passages from books of favorite fa-vorite authors, and many poems, including in-cluding -epics- and extended lyrics. My mother was also a good Latin scholar She had seven daughters, of whom six, including myself, survive, as do sixteen six-teen great-grandchildren aad twenty-one twenty-one grand,cM'flreD.." |