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Show OLDEST FORD DRIVER "jpT 'Vi; - VVfVnl iik w;- j,, "i i I Hi mMhS '" : wi P h . sr ! "r 1 ' v "? - v i V-v? -r ' . i J M Crcv 8D. of Ethel, Miss., the oldest Ford driver In Mississippi, tawrSd tni T historic old Natche Trace In . covered wagon eighty seven years ago. able Bervice as a Confederate sol-' dier during the Civil War. When the southern cause collapsed, Crow was compelled to trudge 400 miles on foot to the old homestead at Ethel where he settled down to rear a family. In the intervening years he has seen the lumbering stagecoach give way to the fleet automobile and the comfortable motorbus, the soggy gumbo and rough corduroy roads ot his childhood to the wide, paved roada of today, and although he was long past middle age before the modern automobile became commonplace com-monplace he is os enthusiastic a driver as youngsters who can boast less than one-quarter of his years. Five generations ot Crow's family fam-ily are frequently seen together in his Model A Ford, the second of Its type Crow has owned and driven." aS rugged today at 89 as the A ago in American history he JiJL bo picturesquely typifies, J rM. Crow of Ethol. Miss., Is the oidest Ford driver in Mississippi and one of the oldest In the United St&t89 When as a babe of two years he rode with his parcuts In one of a train of 80 covered wagons out of Cobb county, Georgia, into Mississippi, Missis-sippi, the old Natchez Trace followed fol-lowed by the brave little band was still infested by the swashbuckling ruffians whose bloody outrages gave that era its place in this country's coun-try's history as "the outlaw years." One of his vivid memories la hearing, hear-ing, as a boy of, six, the news of Ceneral Scott's victorious assault on the heights of Chapuitepec which ended the M?xlcan War In 1S47. and his proudest memory Is ot honor- |