Indpls. Star 1923:
MRS. MARY ANN BIRD WILL ENTER ON SECOND CENTURY
"Spry Centenarian Loves Her Pipe"
Family: When she was 20 she moved with her family to Fayette County where she was married a year later to Richard Bird. She reared nine children, then moved to Clinton county, IN. There she lived until 25 years ago (abt. 1898).
She remembers the migration from Ohio in a covered wagon to Indiana. "It was rough goin'."
On her singing: "I was a good singer. I once sang with Jenny Lind in Parkersberg, W. Virginia where Miss Lind sang in concert."
Ask about the new fashions, she threw up her hands, "Oh-o-o-o-0, Take em away, they is the awfulist sin in the world, wearing skirts up to their knees! The old style is better, skirts to the ground!"
Mary Ann has seven grandchildren, and fourteen great grand children.
On the pipe: "I had throat trouble, like what folks call asthma today. The doctor brought me a pipe and told me to smoke blossoms from a plant I could find in the fields and prepare by drying. It got to comin' natural after a while, then I switched to tobacco. I'll quit if it begins to hurt me"
Children: Susan 1854, John (wife Eva Lamb)1856, Oliver 1859, Staunton (wife Florence) 1862, Sarah 1864, Benjamin 1865, Sherman 1869, William, Elmira∼Early pioneer settlers to Indiana. As a child she traveled in a covered wagon with parents from Virginia to Indiana.
Married Richard Bird, had 9 children.
MRS. MARY ANN BIRD WILL ENTER ON SECOND CENTURY
"Spry Centenarian Loves Her Pipe"
Family: When she was 20 she moved with her family to Fayette County where she was married a year later to Richard Bird. She reared nine children, then moved to Clinton county, IN. There she lived until 25 years ago (abt. 1898).
She remembers the migration from Ohio in a covered wagon to Indiana. "It was rough goin'."
On her singing: "I was a good singer. I once sang with Jenny Lind in Parkersberg, W. Virginia where Miss Lind sang in concert."
Ask about the new fashions, she threw up her hands, "Oh-o-o-o-0, Take em away, they is the awfulist sin in the world, wearing skirts up to their knees! The old style is better, skirts to the ground!"
Mary Ann has seven grandchildren, and fourteen great grand children.
On the pipe: "I had throat trouble, like what folks call asthma today. The doctor brought me a pipe and told me to smoke blossoms from a plant I could find in the fields and prepare by drying. It got to comin' natural after a while, then I switched to tobacco. I'll quit if it begins to hurt me"
Children: Susan 1854, John (wife Eva Lamb)1856, Oliver 1859, Staunton (wife Florence) 1862, Sarah 1864, Benjamin 1865, Sherman 1869, William, Elmira∼Early pioneer settlers to Indiana. As a child she traveled in a covered wagon with parents from Virginia to Indiana.
Married Richard Bird, had 9 children.
Indpls. Star 1923:
MRS. MARY ANN BIRD WILL ENTER ON SECOND CENTURY
"Spry Centenarian Loves Her Pipe"
Family: When she was 20 she moved with her family to Fayette County where she was married a year later to Richard Bird. She reared nine children, then moved to Clinton county, IN. There she lived until 25 years ago (abt. 1898).
She remembers the migration from Ohio in a covered wagon to Indiana. "It was rough goin'."
On her singing: "I was a good singer. I once sang with Jenny Lind in Parkersberg, W. Virginia where Miss Lind sang in concert."
Ask about the new fashions, she threw up her hands, "Oh-o-o-o-0, Take em away, they is the awfulist sin in the world, wearing skirts up to their knees! The old style is better, skirts to the ground!"
Mary Ann has seven grandchildren, and fourteen great grand children.
On the pipe: "I had throat trouble, like what folks call asthma today. The doctor brought me a pipe and told me to smoke blossoms from a plant I could find in the fields and prepare by drying. It got to comin' natural after a while, then I switched to tobacco. I'll quit if it begins to hurt me"
Children: Susan 1854, John (wife Eva Lamb)1856, Oliver 1859, Staunton (wife Florence) 1862, Sarah 1864, Benjamin 1865, Sherman 1869, William, Elmira∼Early pioneer settlers to Indiana. As a child she traveled in a covered wagon with parents from Virginia to Indiana.
Married Richard Bird, had 9 children.
MRS. MARY ANN BIRD WILL ENTER ON SECOND CENTURY
"Spry Centenarian Loves Her Pipe"
Family: When she was 20 she moved with her family to Fayette County where she was married a year later to Richard Bird. She reared nine children, then moved to Clinton county, IN. There she lived until 25 years ago (abt. 1898).
She remembers the migration from Ohio in a covered wagon to Indiana. "It was rough goin'."
On her singing: "I was a good singer. I once sang with Jenny Lind in Parkersberg, W. Virginia where Miss Lind sang in concert."
Ask about the new fashions, she threw up her hands, "Oh-o-o-o-0, Take em away, they is the awfulist sin in the world, wearing skirts up to their knees! The old style is better, skirts to the ground!"
Mary Ann has seven grandchildren, and fourteen great grand children.
On the pipe: "I had throat trouble, like what folks call asthma today. The doctor brought me a pipe and told me to smoke blossoms from a plant I could find in the fields and prepare by drying. It got to comin' natural after a while, then I switched to tobacco. I'll quit if it begins to hurt me"
Children: Susan 1854, John (wife Eva Lamb)1856, Oliver 1859, Staunton (wife Florence) 1862, Sarah 1864, Benjamin 1865, Sherman 1869, William, Elmira∼Early pioneer settlers to Indiana. As a child she traveled in a covered wagon with parents from Virginia to Indiana.
Married Richard Bird, had 9 children.
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burial: JAN 2,1924
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