OCR Text |
Show REMARKABLE RECORD. Woman of 26 Years of Age Gives Birth to Her Sixteenth Child. President Roosevelt's charge of "race suicide" evidently does not apply ap-ply to Mrs. Mary Ellen Phegley of Roots, Illinois, as there was recorded yesterday the birth of her sixteenth child. Mrs. Phegley Is In her twenty-sixth twenty-sixth year. She has been twice married, mar-ried, having had twelve children by her first husband and four by her second. sec-ond. Napoleon B. Phegley, a wealthy farmer, 61 years of age. Mrs. Phegley Is a native of Perry county. Mo., and was a bride at only 14. Only a short time intervened between the death of her first husband and her marriage to Phegley. |