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IX HEll 102X1) YEAH. J I Aunt Susan Pursley Was 101 Years i Old Few Days Ago. Miss Susan Pursley, better known j as "Aunt Susan," the oldest white ( woman in South Carolina so far as j the records show, who remembers j well all of the wars in which the; United States has been engaged since j the Revolution, or rather who remembers well having heard some of those who took part in all of them talk about them, celebrated her 101st birthday a few days ago. The coming of 1920 saw her several days into her 102nd year with every indication that 6he would see the year through and might see many more years. There was no elaborate celebration or spe cial exercise 01 a.11 v aiuu iu wuuwv tion.with her passage of the century mark by a margin of one year. The old lady celebrated her 101st birthday on December 29, at the home of I her nephew, Mr. William Ervin, of Clover No. 4, with whom she has lived for many years. She spent the day as she spends all of her days 1 now, sitting quietly by the fire re- j i fleeting perhaps upon events of the past 100 years which have come un- J der her observation. She still has remarkably good por- c session of her faculties. Her hear- '' ing is not as good as it once was and there has come with the many years a mist over her kindly old eyes which : is akin to blindness. She can still ! walk a little with the aid of a cane 1 and almost every day when the sun ' shines brightly and the air is warm, ' she takes a little stroll into the open. In company with Messrs. R. Mack J Robinson and James Pursley, of Clo- * ver, and Howard McMackin, of Beth- 1 anv. now a corporal, 48th infantry, * ? . c? Camp Jackson, a representative of ~ The Enquirer called to see "Aunt 3 Susan'' on her 102nd birthday. She 1 was alone when the visitors came. .She didn't see the Chevrolet drive ( into the yard of the Ervin home and 1 she failed to hear the visitor's knock ( upon the door. So they just walked 2 In. They found "Aunt Susan" seated 1 > c beside the fire. She greeted her visitors kindly and invited them to have chairs. Because J of her defective hearing she does not 1 talk very much any more, although she was ready enough to answer ques- ( tions when she understood. In re- * sponse to queries she talked of the s "'Texas war," the "Big War," as she 1 called the War Between the States f and of the recont world war. "My health is pretty good," she 1 said, "considering that I am getting * along in years. I have never been * sick very much in my life and I don't 5 remember ever being sick except 1 once some sixty years ago when I I was took right bad with chills and * fever. I never did have much use 1 for medicine and I don't remember 2 ever taking much except a little calo- * * --j worv nnoe in a while, j mei dllU aaits c* j Talks of the Women. * "There is qu:'te a difference in the 1 modes and customs of the young wo- * men of this day as compared with 1 those who lived when you were ( young," was suggested to the cente- ( narian and the reply was, "Yes, sir, ( there is a heap of difference. Girls 1 and women these days don't work as 1 hard as they did when I was young. I guess there was more work for them 1 to do. I helped my mother with the 1 house and I helped in the fields and did a little bit of everything almost. 1 There has been a lot of changes in * this country since I was a girl. It is J easier to make a living now, according to what they all say." * "We had a very large family. There were twelve of us children. I was the oldest. We raised corn and wheat J in those days. There was no cotton and there was no farming machinery { -?like now. All this country was noth- 1 ing but woods. There were mighty ' few people around and it was a strug- ' gle to live. I've had to work mighty ' hard." 5 Why She Never Married. "No, I never married," she said, "I never did see how I could get mar ried very well. Yes, I thought about I it a great deal when I was a young girl and there were , young men , around that I might have married. But it just didn't suit. My sisters married and my brothers moved off. But I had to take care of mother, so I just kept on being single. Mother was 94 years old when she died. Father was 82. My sisters were 1 pretty old when they died." J Neveir Rode on Train.. * "I never did ride on a train," Aunt Susan went on to say. "I have ? seen trains, but I never did have occasion to ride on a train. I never was much of a body to go far from home no way. I have rode in automobiles and its powerful easy riding and I have heard of these flying machines but I never did see one. I *dorv't reckon I will ever ride in one of them and I don't know that I'll ever ride on a train. Folks never did I think about them kind of things. 1 don't reckon, when I was young." Remember the Wars. "My father was too old to fight in the Big War when they freed the negroes and he was too young to fight i in the Revolutionary war. He had a brother though, they say, who fought at the Battle of King's Moun-I tain. My brothers was in the Texas j war in 1S45 and 184 6 and they were in the Mexican war. A good many j boys from this part of the country; went to Texas in them days to fight in the war and when the Big War j come on, most everybody went. We women folks had a busy time of it in them days a making gray uniforms, for them. "It was pretty hard times in them days. Didn't nobody have much to eat and there was a lot of young men ; and boys that went that didn't never come back. They tell me that more ! mep were killed in that war than the j war thafs going on now." Told that the World War to which she referred was over, the old lady had evidently forgotten the fact or it! had escaped her mind. "Wars are j mighty bad," she said. "They have : caused a lot of trouble and suffer 1U5. I Great Social Changes. "You have lived to see great social changes in this community," asked one of Aunt Susan's visitors. "It seems almost unbelieveable. I guess the number of churches and school houses in this country now is louble what they were when you were a girl?" "Yes, sir," she replied. "I don't mind but two churches when I was young. One was Beersheba church and the other was Bethel. I used to go to services at them places; but it was a mighty long trip. 1 ised to go to Yorkville too when I was young. It was a little bit of a place then and when I was about twenty-five there was no such place is Rock Hill and Clover and Gas:on:a. They tell me they are right mart places now. Never did go much aowhere. Just stayed at home. I "eckon I'd a knowed more if I had." "People behave better *van they lid when you were you* don't ;hey?" asked a questioner: - "The ;ountry is better off without whiskey ind almost everybody thinks it is veil that it is so. Don't you think | 50?" 1 ?i. ~ J i reckon it is a, guuu imxig iui iome," replied Aunt Susan. "There ;vas lots of whiskey when I was roung. There was a still right near >ur house. They say people are bet;er off without whiskey; but," she said, as she shook her venerable lead. "I tell you it is mighty good 'or medicine." "I never did drink any whiskey nuch. Most everybody drank a little )it in my young days. Lots of the vomen smoked pipes when I was roung. I tried to smoke once. I emember my mother was smoking a >ipe and the smoke smeiled so good, hai I started to smoke. It made me nighty sick and I never did use it my more. Everybody raised a little :obacco in those days." Before her visitors left Aunt Susan graciously consented to having her ihotograph made. She was placed in i beautiful arm chair, the gift of elatives and friends on the occasion )f the celebration of her 100th birthlay a year before, and was carried, diair and all into the yard by her risftors, where James Pursley snapied several photographs of her. She was then carried back into the louse and to her comfortable place leside the fire. "I wish for you continued good lealth and many more birthdays," said one of her visitors before departing. "I still feel pretty good, sir," she said sweetly, "and if the Lord wills I svill live a long while yet." The motor of the Chevrolet whirred ind the driver started back to Clover. 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