Age 94∼Jackson Daily News, Friday, Aug. 4, 1916
Oldest Woman Dead.
Houlka, Miss., Aug. 4. - (Special.) - Mrs. Lucinda James, the oldest woman in Chickasaw County, died here yesterday morning at the home of her son, Vardie James, aged 100 years. She was born in 1816, the year of the great crop failure, and through the century she has lived one of the most active lives ever known to people of advanced age. Mrs. James has won many prizes over the country during picnics and celebrations for being the oldest individual present. She remembered the general conversation of people back in 1820 and 1825 concerning the cold year of 1816 and said that everybody dated the various happenings of their lives by that year. Mrs. James moved from Jasper, Ala., to Chickasaw County long before the Civil War and has never been away from her home since that time. She leaves four children, George, Vardie, Mrs. Tom Stafford and Mrs. Henry Armstrong. Her body was laid to rest in the old family cemetery at Poplar Springs.
I am not positive that the Poplar Springs Cemetery is the same as "the family cemetery at Poplar Springs" but thought it might be because of the grave here for Vardie James, presumably the son named in Lucinda's obituary.
Oldest Woman Dead.
Houlka, Miss., Aug. 4. - (Special.) - Mrs. Lucinda James, the oldest woman in Chickasaw County, died here yesterday morning at the home of her son, Vardie James, aged 100 years. She was born in 1816, the year of the great crop failure, and through the century she has lived one of the most active lives ever known to people of advanced age. Mrs. James has won many prizes over the country during picnics and celebrations for being the oldest individual present. She remembered the general conversation of people back in 1820 and 1825 concerning the cold year of 1816 and said that everybody dated the various happenings of their lives by that year. Mrs. James moved from Jasper, Ala., to Chickasaw County long before the Civil War and has never been away from her home since that time. She leaves four children, George, Vardie, Mrs. Tom Stafford and Mrs. Henry Armstrong. Her body was laid to rest in the old family cemetery at Poplar Springs.
I am not positive that the Poplar Springs Cemetery is the same as "the family cemetery at Poplar Springs" but thought it might be because of the grave here for Vardie James, presumably the son named in Lucinda's obituary.
Age 94∼Jackson Daily News, Friday, Aug. 4, 1916
Oldest Woman Dead.
Houlka, Miss., Aug. 4. - (Special.) - Mrs. Lucinda James, the oldest woman in Chickasaw County, died here yesterday morning at the home of her son, Vardie James, aged 100 years. She was born in 1816, the year of the great crop failure, and through the century she has lived one of the most active lives ever known to people of advanced age. Mrs. James has won many prizes over the country during picnics and celebrations for being the oldest individual present. She remembered the general conversation of people back in 1820 and 1825 concerning the cold year of 1816 and said that everybody dated the various happenings of their lives by that year. Mrs. James moved from Jasper, Ala., to Chickasaw County long before the Civil War and has never been away from her home since that time. She leaves four children, George, Vardie, Mrs. Tom Stafford and Mrs. Henry Armstrong. Her body was laid to rest in the old family cemetery at Poplar Springs.
I am not positive that the Poplar Springs Cemetery is the same as "the family cemetery at Poplar Springs" but thought it might be because of the grave here for Vardie James, presumably the son named in Lucinda's obituary.
Oldest Woman Dead.
Houlka, Miss., Aug. 4. - (Special.) - Mrs. Lucinda James, the oldest woman in Chickasaw County, died here yesterday morning at the home of her son, Vardie James, aged 100 years. She was born in 1816, the year of the great crop failure, and through the century she has lived one of the most active lives ever known to people of advanced age. Mrs. James has won many prizes over the country during picnics and celebrations for being the oldest individual present. She remembered the general conversation of people back in 1820 and 1825 concerning the cold year of 1816 and said that everybody dated the various happenings of their lives by that year. Mrs. James moved from Jasper, Ala., to Chickasaw County long before the Civil War and has never been away from her home since that time. She leaves four children, George, Vardie, Mrs. Tom Stafford and Mrs. Henry Armstrong. Her body was laid to rest in the old family cemetery at Poplar Springs.
I am not positive that the Poplar Springs Cemetery is the same as "the family cemetery at Poplar Springs" but thought it might be because of the grave here for Vardie James, presumably the son named in Lucinda's obituary.
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