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Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 16
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 13, 1907
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Oldest Woman in America.
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Mineola, Texas, June
7.--Wood county can boast of having probably the oldest person now living.
Mrs. L. E. Killcrease, who lives near Pine Mills, ten miles east of Mineola, was
born June 10, 1776, and will celebrate her 131st birthday next Monday. She
lives with her daughter and granddaughter, who are also very old. These
three persons live together, are very poor, and are supported by the people of
the neighborhood, with what they can raise in their garden.
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