Hardin County Independent
Elizabethtown, Illinois
Mar 25, 1892
Grandma Lynn Celebrates Birthday
Grandma Lynn was born in Caswell county, Va., in 1800 and moved to Christian County, KY., in 1802. Four of her brothers were in the battle of New Orleans in 1815, having gone from Hopkinsville to Smithland by land, thence to New Orleans by flatboat. After the battle and news was received of the treaty of peace, three of the brothers started on their return home on the Vestvius, the second boat built at Pittsburgh by Fulton. The company marched overland to Hopkinsville. The fourth brother died in New Orleans of fever.
She was married in 1820, and was the mother of 13 children, all of whom lived to be grown. Of this number she has outlived all but the three above named. Of her grandchildren 44 are living; of her great-grandchildren 53 are living. these together with her living children, make an even hundred, of whom 35 took dinner with her on last Thursday.
Mrs. L. can see and hear well, is well preserved and quite active. She enjoys fishing very much and has her hooks and lines ready for the next pleasant day. Although she fell in the creek last summer and was unable to get out for over three hours, in the meantime becoming frightened and nearly ready to give up, yet she managed to get out after so long a time and hopes to be able to enjoy several fishing seasons yet.
She gave away her spectacles 15 years ago and can thread a needle or bait a fish hook as quickly as many not half so old.
Written by O. K.
Note (birth should read Caswell County, NC)
Our Oldest Citizen Dead - (From a news clipping - 1892)
In the death of Grandma Elizabeth Lynn, at her home in Battery Rock precinct, Thursday, Sept 22, 1892, Hardin County loses its oldest citizen. She was born in March 1800 and was therefore in her 93rd year. Physically she has always been stout and robust, and during the summer seasons of late years she enjoyed taking a pole and line and fishing for the Finnny tribe in the pools of Cane Creek, and generally caught as large a string as many persons sixty and seventy .... (rest of article missing).
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....William Shelton, Jr. and his wife Rebecca Hogg could both read and write. William's signature appears on the marriage bond applications for several of his children.
William and Rebecca Shelton's consent for their daughter, Betsey, to marry Jonathan Lynn. is unusual in that it is signed by both William and Rebecca; Dated February 23, 1820
This is to certify that I have no objections of Mister Cannon Clark of the Cort's serving Lisions (license) to Jonathan Lyn to marry my Daughter. Feb. 23, 1820 William Shelton
to Mister Cannon Clark of the Cort Rebecca Shelton
Elizabethtown, Illinois
Mar 25, 1892
Grandma Lynn Celebrates Birthday
Grandma Lynn was born in Caswell county, Va., in 1800 and moved to Christian County, KY., in 1802. Four of her brothers were in the battle of New Orleans in 1815, having gone from Hopkinsville to Smithland by land, thence to New Orleans by flatboat. After the battle and news was received of the treaty of peace, three of the brothers started on their return home on the Vestvius, the second boat built at Pittsburgh by Fulton. The company marched overland to Hopkinsville. The fourth brother died in New Orleans of fever.
She was married in 1820, and was the mother of 13 children, all of whom lived to be grown. Of this number she has outlived all but the three above named. Of her grandchildren 44 are living; of her great-grandchildren 53 are living. these together with her living children, make an even hundred, of whom 35 took dinner with her on last Thursday.
Mrs. L. can see and hear well, is well preserved and quite active. She enjoys fishing very much and has her hooks and lines ready for the next pleasant day. Although she fell in the creek last summer and was unable to get out for over three hours, in the meantime becoming frightened and nearly ready to give up, yet she managed to get out after so long a time and hopes to be able to enjoy several fishing seasons yet.
She gave away her spectacles 15 years ago and can thread a needle or bait a fish hook as quickly as many not half so old.
Written by O. K.
Note (birth should read Caswell County, NC)
Our Oldest Citizen Dead - (From a news clipping - 1892)
In the death of Grandma Elizabeth Lynn, at her home in Battery Rock precinct, Thursday, Sept 22, 1892, Hardin County loses its oldest citizen. She was born in March 1800 and was therefore in her 93rd year. Physically she has always been stout and robust, and during the summer seasons of late years she enjoyed taking a pole and line and fishing for the Finnny tribe in the pools of Cane Creek, and generally caught as large a string as many persons sixty and seventy .... (rest of article missing).
.......................................................
....William Shelton, Jr. and his wife Rebecca Hogg could both read and write. William's signature appears on the marriage bond applications for several of his children.
William and Rebecca Shelton's consent for their daughter, Betsey, to marry Jonathan Lynn. is unusual in that it is signed by both William and Rebecca; Dated February 23, 1820
This is to certify that I have no objections of Mister Cannon Clark of the Cort's serving Lisions (license) to Jonathan Lyn to marry my Daughter. Feb. 23, 1820 William Shelton
to Mister Cannon Clark of the Cort Rebecca Shelton
Hardin County Independent
Elizabethtown, Illinois
Mar 25, 1892
Grandma Lynn Celebrates Birthday
Grandma Lynn was born in Caswell county, Va., in 1800 and moved to Christian County, KY., in 1802. Four of her brothers were in the battle of New Orleans in 1815, having gone from Hopkinsville to Smithland by land, thence to New Orleans by flatboat. After the battle and news was received of the treaty of peace, three of the brothers started on their return home on the Vestvius, the second boat built at Pittsburgh by Fulton. The company marched overland to Hopkinsville. The fourth brother died in New Orleans of fever.
She was married in 1820, and was the mother of 13 children, all of whom lived to be grown. Of this number she has outlived all but the three above named. Of her grandchildren 44 are living; of her great-grandchildren 53 are living. these together with her living children, make an even hundred, of whom 35 took dinner with her on last Thursday.
Mrs. L. can see and hear well, is well preserved and quite active. She enjoys fishing very much and has her hooks and lines ready for the next pleasant day. Although she fell in the creek last summer and was unable to get out for over three hours, in the meantime becoming frightened and nearly ready to give up, yet she managed to get out after so long a time and hopes to be able to enjoy several fishing seasons yet.
She gave away her spectacles 15 years ago and can thread a needle or bait a fish hook as quickly as many not half so old.
Written by O. K.
Note (birth should read Caswell County, NC)
Our Oldest Citizen Dead - (From a news clipping - 1892)
In the death of Grandma Elizabeth Lynn, at her home in Battery Rock precinct, Thursday, Sept 22, 1892, Hardin County loses its oldest citizen. She was born in March 1800 and was therefore in her 93rd year. Physically she has always been stout and robust, and during the summer seasons of late years she enjoyed taking a pole and line and fishing for the Finnny tribe in the pools of Cane Creek, and generally caught as large a string as many persons sixty and seventy .... (rest of article missing).
.......................................................
....William Shelton, Jr. and his wife Rebecca Hogg could both read and write. William's signature appears on the marriage bond applications for several of his children.
William and Rebecca Shelton's consent for their daughter, Betsey, to marry Jonathan Lynn. is unusual in that it is signed by both William and Rebecca; Dated February 23, 1820
This is to certify that I have no objections of Mister Cannon Clark of the Cort's serving Lisions (license) to Jonathan Lyn to marry my Daughter. Feb. 23, 1820 William Shelton
to Mister Cannon Clark of the Cort Rebecca Shelton
Elizabethtown, Illinois
Mar 25, 1892
Grandma Lynn Celebrates Birthday
Grandma Lynn was born in Caswell county, Va., in 1800 and moved to Christian County, KY., in 1802. Four of her brothers were in the battle of New Orleans in 1815, having gone from Hopkinsville to Smithland by land, thence to New Orleans by flatboat. After the battle and news was received of the treaty of peace, three of the brothers started on their return home on the Vestvius, the second boat built at Pittsburgh by Fulton. The company marched overland to Hopkinsville. The fourth brother died in New Orleans of fever.
She was married in 1820, and was the mother of 13 children, all of whom lived to be grown. Of this number she has outlived all but the three above named. Of her grandchildren 44 are living; of her great-grandchildren 53 are living. these together with her living children, make an even hundred, of whom 35 took dinner with her on last Thursday.
Mrs. L. can see and hear well, is well preserved and quite active. She enjoys fishing very much and has her hooks and lines ready for the next pleasant day. Although she fell in the creek last summer and was unable to get out for over three hours, in the meantime becoming frightened and nearly ready to give up, yet she managed to get out after so long a time and hopes to be able to enjoy several fishing seasons yet.
She gave away her spectacles 15 years ago and can thread a needle or bait a fish hook as quickly as many not half so old.
Written by O. K.
Note (birth should read Caswell County, NC)
Our Oldest Citizen Dead - (From a news clipping - 1892)
In the death of Grandma Elizabeth Lynn, at her home in Battery Rock precinct, Thursday, Sept 22, 1892, Hardin County loses its oldest citizen. She was born in March 1800 and was therefore in her 93rd year. Physically she has always been stout and robust, and during the summer seasons of late years she enjoyed taking a pole and line and fishing for the Finnny tribe in the pools of Cane Creek, and generally caught as large a string as many persons sixty and seventy .... (rest of article missing).
.......................................................
....William Shelton, Jr. and his wife Rebecca Hogg could both read and write. William's signature appears on the marriage bond applications for several of his children.
William and Rebecca Shelton's consent for their daughter, Betsey, to marry Jonathan Lynn. is unusual in that it is signed by both William and Rebecca; Dated February 23, 1820
This is to certify that I have no objections of Mister Cannon Clark of the Cort's serving Lisions (license) to Jonathan Lyn to marry my Daughter. Feb. 23, 1820 William Shelton
to Mister Cannon Clark of the Cort Rebecca Shelton
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