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Show Aged Mother Will Soon Be 111 Years Old. Mrs. Brandon, Who Hat Been Honored by Uncle Sam and Her Native State, Still Does Own Housework. House-work. Moutulsville, V. Va. Mrs. Sarah llraiidon of Moundsvllle-, whoio j,lo-turu j,lo-turu the (unci nmeiit j, laced In the Na-, Na-, tional gallery at Washington, In lee-i lee-i ognlilon of the fad that sho nave I more sons to the Civil war than any : other woman of her country, will mioii be one bundled and eleven year old. She was the mother of 2i children, chil-dren, all hoys but one. Sixteen of the ! boys scrvtd lu tho war, U with tho I nitio and two wlih the Confederacy. I l r native state of Ohio also honored her by pljcing her likeness on the ; wall of tho State gallery at Columbus. Colum-bus. Mrs. Ilrandon Is halo and hearty. Fhe does all her own housework and cultivates a unall Rarden iatch In tho rear of her borne. She smokes a ' ! 1'lpe constantly, favoring only the ! ! strongest tobacco. Without tho pipe.' tTie says she grows tiervoua and lonesome. lone-some. The little house In which she resides re-sides unifies against a hill within a few yards of the city limits of the ! Ohio Uiver town, and every week ! Mis. Ilrandon can be sei ri wending her ' way to the city for supplies for her Sunday dinner. i She h is but one deformity. A nun- I died years ago, while p'aying wlih ! her brother, the lad accidentally hhot an arrow from his miniature bow at j her, the dart piercing her right eye, i de: ti nvlng the sight. j Hi tern of her sons are llvlns. Tho : oldest Is lllrnm Ilrandon of Ilel!alr, 1 Ohio, eighty nine years old, who works every day nt a hot furnace In a steel i inlil and boasts that he was never ! sick a day In his life. Her youngest' (on, F.van Brandon, of Moiindsvlllc, Is seventy years old, and digs coal, lie carrle.-) scars from bullet and saber wounds received while llhtin; for the ! i . . ! i I; i : Mrs. Sarah Brandon. li I 'nlon In tho Civil war. All the chtl- c ren of Mr. Ilrandon became parent ; a f large families, the oldest und ' r oungibt each having nlno children. jp Itelore her tnarrlago Mrs. Ilrandon u as Miss Sarah Farker. Sho was ! orn In llelmont county, Ohio, her fa- 1 Iter being a jdonecr of that section. ! R he can recall events during the (, lexlean war. and skirmishes which fi er father and neighbors participated (1 l ngTinst rovlug and unsettled bands tt f Indians. At the age of fifteen she j ., as married to Mbenezer Uraiidoo, be- ! ig his second wife. ! ', j al |