AFRICAN - AMERICANS
In the NEWS
Dallas Morning News
July 1, 1900
OLDEST WOMAN IN
GRAYSON.
She is a Negress
and the Census Taker Put Her Down at 112.
Special to THE NEWS.
Sherman, Tex., June 30.
- The census enumerators found the oldest
person in Grayson County at Pilot Grove in
the local parsonage of the M. E. Church
South. She is an aged Negress commonly known
as Aggie Clark, having been a faithful
servant in the family of Rev. Fletcher Clark
for more than forty years.
Rev. Mr. Clark was in
the city today and, speaking of the case he
said:
"While I am
fully satisfied that Aunt Aggie is at
least 115 years old, and perhaps older, to
be certain it was given at 112 years. She
is, of course, very weak physically, but
one of her eyes retains remarkable
strength and mentally she seems to be all
right. She is a native of Virginia, but
she came to our house before the war in
Georgia."
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