BISBEE'S OLDEST MOTHER HAS SPENT 51 YEARS IN ARIZONA AND IS JUST OVER 85 TODAY
MRS. ARY CANE
Meet Bisbee's oldest mother--Mrs. Ary Cane, No7 Montana St. Johnson Addition, who is 85 years, three months and 15 days old.
Mrs. Cane was declared yesterday by three judges as the winner of the Oldest Mother contest sponsored by the Lyric Theater and The Review, with several other local business houses cooperating.
Tomorrow, Mother's Day, Mrs. Cane will be introduced from the stage opf the Lyric Theater at 9 p.m. at which time she will receive several gifts through the courtesy of local merchants.
Lived in Tombstone
Mrs. Cane is a true pioneer of this state, having come to Arizona 51 years ago. She spent 28 years in Tombstone when that mining camp was a rip-roaring, boom town, and she came to Bisbee in October of 1912 where she has resided since.
She's not what you might picture as Bisbee's oldest mother--that is, a feeble, helpless thing who spends all her time in an easy chair. On the other hand, she is very active in spite of her years and she gets a tremendous wallop out of life. She gets on the bus and rides up to Bisbee to shop by herself. She attends almost every card party that comes along and is a crack whist player--has won numerous prizes for high score, even recently. She descends and ascends the stairway to the second floor of the apartment dwelling where she lives without any assistance.
Has Good Memory
And she has a remarkable memory for dates, names and places, especially where they concern some of her relatives.
She was born in Lawrence County, Ohio in January, 1833. Her mother, Mrs. Kindley Mann, who married at 13 died at the birth of her daughter, two years later.
Father killed at Shiloh
Kindley Mann, sympathetic to the cause of the Union when the Civil War broke out, enlisted from Ohio, although the war did not actively reach that state. He was killed in action in the famous Battle of Shiloh in 1862 in the second year of the war between the states, thus leaving the girl, Ary, an orphan.
She learned the hard life of the farmer in her fgirlhood and she began doing farm chores when her father enlisted in the Union Army. At 15 years of age was harvesting corn, pitching hay and doing the work of a man.
Came West
Alone, and without any immediate relatives, she came west when she heard that she had a cousin in Silver City, New Mexico. When she arrived in Silver City, she was told the relative had gone to Tombstone to live, and that's what brought Mrs. Cain to Cochise county.
Incidentally, she did not find the relative in Tombstone but she found a husband and was married shortly after she established her residence there.
Married in Tombstone
Mrs. Cain has been the mother of seven children but only one of them is living --Mrs. Beatrice Frances Berryhill of Warren herself a mother of eight children.
Bisbee's oldest mother was a practical nurse in her younger days back in St. Louis, MO and she even enrolled in a nursing school to train but became ill and was forced to give up that career.
Longevity
Longevity is nothing new to her family line. Her grandfather was 88 when he died and her great-grandfather, John Brammer died at the age of 92 while he was felling a tree with an axe.
Mrs. Cane arrived in Tombstone shortly after the famous Earp-Clanton gun battle and it was "the talk of the town' when she reached the Helldorado city.
Asked if Tombstone was still pretty tough when she arrived there, Mrs. Cain grunted:
'Tough? Lord, yes! Why we had a man for breakfast every morning'.
Second place in the local contest went to Mrs. Julia Walsh, who, upon her registration gave her age as 84. A pioneer resident of the Bisbee district she is the mother of J.C. (Denny) Walsh.
from: The Review Newspaper
MRS. ARY CANE
Meet Bisbee's oldest mother--Mrs. Ary Cane, No7 Montana St. Johnson Addition, who is 85 years, three months and 15 days old.
Mrs. Cane was declared yesterday by three judges as the winner of the Oldest Mother contest sponsored by the Lyric Theater and The Review, with several other local business houses cooperating.
Tomorrow, Mother's Day, Mrs. Cane will be introduced from the stage opf the Lyric Theater at 9 p.m. at which time she will receive several gifts through the courtesy of local merchants.
Lived in Tombstone
Mrs. Cane is a true pioneer of this state, having come to Arizona 51 years ago. She spent 28 years in Tombstone when that mining camp was a rip-roaring, boom town, and she came to Bisbee in October of 1912 where she has resided since.
She's not what you might picture as Bisbee's oldest mother--that is, a feeble, helpless thing who spends all her time in an easy chair. On the other hand, she is very active in spite of her years and she gets a tremendous wallop out of life. She gets on the bus and rides up to Bisbee to shop by herself. She attends almost every card party that comes along and is a crack whist player--has won numerous prizes for high score, even recently. She descends and ascends the stairway to the second floor of the apartment dwelling where she lives without any assistance.
Has Good Memory
And she has a remarkable memory for dates, names and places, especially where they concern some of her relatives.
She was born in Lawrence County, Ohio in January, 1833. Her mother, Mrs. Kindley Mann, who married at 13 died at the birth of her daughter, two years later.
Father killed at Shiloh
Kindley Mann, sympathetic to the cause of the Union when the Civil War broke out, enlisted from Ohio, although the war did not actively reach that state. He was killed in action in the famous Battle of Shiloh in 1862 in the second year of the war between the states, thus leaving the girl, Ary, an orphan.
She learned the hard life of the farmer in her fgirlhood and she began doing farm chores when her father enlisted in the Union Army. At 15 years of age was harvesting corn, pitching hay and doing the work of a man.
Came West
Alone, and without any immediate relatives, she came west when she heard that she had a cousin in Silver City, New Mexico. When she arrived in Silver City, she was told the relative had gone to Tombstone to live, and that's what brought Mrs. Cain to Cochise county.
Incidentally, she did not find the relative in Tombstone but she found a husband and was married shortly after she established her residence there.
Married in Tombstone
Mrs. Cain has been the mother of seven children but only one of them is living --Mrs. Beatrice Frances Berryhill of Warren herself a mother of eight children.
Bisbee's oldest mother was a practical nurse in her younger days back in St. Louis, MO and she even enrolled in a nursing school to train but became ill and was forced to give up that career.
Longevity
Longevity is nothing new to her family line. Her grandfather was 88 when he died and her great-grandfather, John Brammer died at the age of 92 while he was felling a tree with an axe.
Mrs. Cane arrived in Tombstone shortly after the famous Earp-Clanton gun battle and it was "the talk of the town' when she reached the Helldorado city.
Asked if Tombstone was still pretty tough when she arrived there, Mrs. Cain grunted:
'Tough? Lord, yes! Why we had a man for breakfast every morning'.
Second place in the local contest went to Mrs. Julia Walsh, who, upon her registration gave her age as 84. A pioneer resident of the Bisbee district she is the mother of J.C. (Denny) Walsh.
from: The Review Newspaper
BISBEE'S OLDEST MOTHER HAS SPENT 51 YEARS IN ARIZONA AND IS JUST OVER 85 TODAY
MRS. ARY CANE
Meet Bisbee's oldest mother--Mrs. Ary Cane, No7 Montana St. Johnson Addition, who is 85 years, three months and 15 days old.
Mrs. Cane was declared yesterday by three judges as the winner of the Oldest Mother contest sponsored by the Lyric Theater and The Review, with several other local business houses cooperating.
Tomorrow, Mother's Day, Mrs. Cane will be introduced from the stage opf the Lyric Theater at 9 p.m. at which time she will receive several gifts through the courtesy of local merchants.
Lived in Tombstone
Mrs. Cane is a true pioneer of this state, having come to Arizona 51 years ago. She spent 28 years in Tombstone when that mining camp was a rip-roaring, boom town, and she came to Bisbee in October of 1912 where she has resided since.
She's not what you might picture as Bisbee's oldest mother--that is, a feeble, helpless thing who spends all her time in an easy chair. On the other hand, she is very active in spite of her years and she gets a tremendous wallop out of life. She gets on the bus and rides up to Bisbee to shop by herself. She attends almost every card party that comes along and is a crack whist player--has won numerous prizes for high score, even recently. She descends and ascends the stairway to the second floor of the apartment dwelling where she lives without any assistance.
Has Good Memory
And she has a remarkable memory for dates, names and places, especially where they concern some of her relatives.
She was born in Lawrence County, Ohio in January, 1833. Her mother, Mrs. Kindley Mann, who married at 13 died at the birth of her daughter, two years later.
Father killed at Shiloh
Kindley Mann, sympathetic to the cause of the Union when the Civil War broke out, enlisted from Ohio, although the war did not actively reach that state. He was killed in action in the famous Battle of Shiloh in 1862 in the second year of the war between the states, thus leaving the girl, Ary, an orphan.
She learned the hard life of the farmer in her fgirlhood and she began doing farm chores when her father enlisted in the Union Army. At 15 years of age was harvesting corn, pitching hay and doing the work of a man.
Came West
Alone, and without any immediate relatives, she came west when she heard that she had a cousin in Silver City, New Mexico. When she arrived in Silver City, she was told the relative had gone to Tombstone to live, and that's what brought Mrs. Cain to Cochise county.
Incidentally, she did not find the relative in Tombstone but she found a husband and was married shortly after she established her residence there.
Married in Tombstone
Mrs. Cain has been the mother of seven children but only one of them is living --Mrs. Beatrice Frances Berryhill of Warren herself a mother of eight children.
Bisbee's oldest mother was a practical nurse in her younger days back in St. Louis, MO and she even enrolled in a nursing school to train but became ill and was forced to give up that career.
Longevity
Longevity is nothing new to her family line. Her grandfather was 88 when he died and her great-grandfather, John Brammer died at the age of 92 while he was felling a tree with an axe.
Mrs. Cane arrived in Tombstone shortly after the famous Earp-Clanton gun battle and it was "the talk of the town' when she reached the Helldorado city.
Asked if Tombstone was still pretty tough when she arrived there, Mrs. Cain grunted:
'Tough? Lord, yes! Why we had a man for breakfast every morning'.
Second place in the local contest went to Mrs. Julia Walsh, who, upon her registration gave her age as 84. A pioneer resident of the Bisbee district she is the mother of J.C. (Denny) Walsh.
from: The Review Newspaper
MRS. ARY CANE
Meet Bisbee's oldest mother--Mrs. Ary Cane, No7 Montana St. Johnson Addition, who is 85 years, three months and 15 days old.
Mrs. Cane was declared yesterday by three judges as the winner of the Oldest Mother contest sponsored by the Lyric Theater and The Review, with several other local business houses cooperating.
Tomorrow, Mother's Day, Mrs. Cane will be introduced from the stage opf the Lyric Theater at 9 p.m. at which time she will receive several gifts through the courtesy of local merchants.
Lived in Tombstone
Mrs. Cane is a true pioneer of this state, having come to Arizona 51 years ago. She spent 28 years in Tombstone when that mining camp was a rip-roaring, boom town, and she came to Bisbee in October of 1912 where she has resided since.
She's not what you might picture as Bisbee's oldest mother--that is, a feeble, helpless thing who spends all her time in an easy chair. On the other hand, she is very active in spite of her years and she gets a tremendous wallop out of life. She gets on the bus and rides up to Bisbee to shop by herself. She attends almost every card party that comes along and is a crack whist player--has won numerous prizes for high score, even recently. She descends and ascends the stairway to the second floor of the apartment dwelling where she lives without any assistance.
Has Good Memory
And she has a remarkable memory for dates, names and places, especially where they concern some of her relatives.
She was born in Lawrence County, Ohio in January, 1833. Her mother, Mrs. Kindley Mann, who married at 13 died at the birth of her daughter, two years later.
Father killed at Shiloh
Kindley Mann, sympathetic to the cause of the Union when the Civil War broke out, enlisted from Ohio, although the war did not actively reach that state. He was killed in action in the famous Battle of Shiloh in 1862 in the second year of the war between the states, thus leaving the girl, Ary, an orphan.
She learned the hard life of the farmer in her fgirlhood and she began doing farm chores when her father enlisted in the Union Army. At 15 years of age was harvesting corn, pitching hay and doing the work of a man.
Came West
Alone, and without any immediate relatives, she came west when she heard that she had a cousin in Silver City, New Mexico. When she arrived in Silver City, she was told the relative had gone to Tombstone to live, and that's what brought Mrs. Cain to Cochise county.
Incidentally, she did not find the relative in Tombstone but she found a husband and was married shortly after she established her residence there.
Married in Tombstone
Mrs. Cain has been the mother of seven children but only one of them is living --Mrs. Beatrice Frances Berryhill of Warren herself a mother of eight children.
Bisbee's oldest mother was a practical nurse in her younger days back in St. Louis, MO and she even enrolled in a nursing school to train but became ill and was forced to give up that career.
Longevity
Longevity is nothing new to her family line. Her grandfather was 88 when he died and her great-grandfather, John Brammer died at the age of 92 while he was felling a tree with an axe.
Mrs. Cane arrived in Tombstone shortly after the famous Earp-Clanton gun battle and it was "the talk of the town' when she reached the Helldorado city.
Asked if Tombstone was still pretty tough when she arrived there, Mrs. Cain grunted:
'Tough? Lord, yes! Why we had a man for breakfast every morning'.
Second place in the local contest went to Mrs. Julia Walsh, who, upon her registration gave her age as 84. A pioneer resident of the Bisbee district she is the mother of J.C. (Denny) Walsh.
from: The Review Newspaper
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