17 NOV. 1933
COUNTY WOMAN, 90, PENS STORY OF
MEETING AND HEARING LINCOLN HERE
A little old white haired lady, frail of body, but surprisingly energetic and alert, genial of disposition and possessing all the mental faculties of a woman half her age, reads with intense interest, of the seventieth anniversary plans of the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, and Lincoln's immortal words, "four score and sever years ago…."
Despite her advanced age of 90 Mrs. Sarah A. Myers, wife of John T. Myers, native of Adams County, and now residing with her son, Albert Cook Myers, Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Historical Commission, at Moylan, near Philadelphia, is anxious
to return to Gettysburg and participate in the exercises commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery, Sunday November 19.
Seventy years ago Mrs. Myers, then Sarah A Cook, of Bendersville, Adams County, a girl of 20, rode with her sister to the Gettysburg Cemetery and stood in the vast throng that heard the martyred Lincoln deliver the famed address.
Her advanced years preclude any possibility of her attending this year's observance. In fair weather she enjoys automobile rides in the county side around Moylan, but the one hundred twenty five mile ride to Gettysburg is too long for her to hazard.
Four years ago Mrs. Myers penned her own vivid picture of her meeting with Lincoln. She Wrote:
"It was in the morning, November 19, 1863, in the parlor of Judge David Wills, in Gettysburg, that I shook the hand of President Lincoln. He was so tall that he stooped to take my hand, which seemed so small in his. Silently he smiled down upon me. I then walked up to the cemetery before the president's procession started and sat upon the rough wooden platform."
"I was close to the President and heard all of his address, but it seemed short. Then their was an impressive silence, like our Menallen Friends' meeting. There was no applause when he stopped speaking."
"I was then a school girl of 20, Sallie A. Cook, living with my mother, Ruth A. Cook, a widow of Jesse Cook and my brothers and sisters at our beloved old family homestead, Cook's Mill, on Possum Creek, in the foot hills of South Mountains. One mile above Bendersville and eleven miles north of Gettysburg, in Menallen Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania."
"There I was born, July 9, 1844, a birthright Friend or Quaker. My next oldest sister, Elmira Jane Cook, went with me to Gettysburg."
Mrs. Myers is an enthusiastic reader of the daily newspapers and magazines. She reads without the use of glasses and her eye site, according to her own words, "is as good as it was forty years ago."
She still recalls intimate details of the impressiveness of the dedication of the cemetery, seventy years ago and her memory serves her in good stead as she reminisces on the historic occasion when Lincoln hushed and inspired a restless audience that had tired of two hour oration, that preceded Lincoln's brief , masterful utterance.
She has returned to Gettysburg a number of times and her unfailing memory enables her to picture the imposing scene of Lincoln, tall and gaunt, in a calm low voice, and visibly moved
the heavy loss of life on the Gettysburg battlefield, five months prior, dedicate the ground made sacred by the blood of a divided nation.
Mr. and Mrs. Myers, recently, observed their sixtieth anniversary of their marriage and are looking forward to the few years ahead when they hope to observe the diamond jubilee of their marriage.
Unable to attend next Sunday's observances, Mrs Myers has made arrangements to hear the broadcast in her son's home.
The article also appeared in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, dated Sunday, Feb. 7, 1932. (T).
Here is a link to the article https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/news/recollect.htm Thanks to zapcomix 47126528.
COUNTY WOMAN, 90, PENS STORY OF
MEETING AND HEARING LINCOLN HERE
A little old white haired lady, frail of body, but surprisingly energetic and alert, genial of disposition and possessing all the mental faculties of a woman half her age, reads with intense interest, of the seventieth anniversary plans of the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, and Lincoln's immortal words, "four score and sever years ago…."
Despite her advanced age of 90 Mrs. Sarah A. Myers, wife of John T. Myers, native of Adams County, and now residing with her son, Albert Cook Myers, Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Historical Commission, at Moylan, near Philadelphia, is anxious
to return to Gettysburg and participate in the exercises commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery, Sunday November 19.
Seventy years ago Mrs. Myers, then Sarah A Cook, of Bendersville, Adams County, a girl of 20, rode with her sister to the Gettysburg Cemetery and stood in the vast throng that heard the martyred Lincoln deliver the famed address.
Her advanced years preclude any possibility of her attending this year's observance. In fair weather she enjoys automobile rides in the county side around Moylan, but the one hundred twenty five mile ride to Gettysburg is too long for her to hazard.
Four years ago Mrs. Myers penned her own vivid picture of her meeting with Lincoln. She Wrote:
"It was in the morning, November 19, 1863, in the parlor of Judge David Wills, in Gettysburg, that I shook the hand of President Lincoln. He was so tall that he stooped to take my hand, which seemed so small in his. Silently he smiled down upon me. I then walked up to the cemetery before the president's procession started and sat upon the rough wooden platform."
"I was close to the President and heard all of his address, but it seemed short. Then their was an impressive silence, like our Menallen Friends' meeting. There was no applause when he stopped speaking."
"I was then a school girl of 20, Sallie A. Cook, living with my mother, Ruth A. Cook, a widow of Jesse Cook and my brothers and sisters at our beloved old family homestead, Cook's Mill, on Possum Creek, in the foot hills of South Mountains. One mile above Bendersville and eleven miles north of Gettysburg, in Menallen Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania."
"There I was born, July 9, 1844, a birthright Friend or Quaker. My next oldest sister, Elmira Jane Cook, went with me to Gettysburg."
Mrs. Myers is an enthusiastic reader of the daily newspapers and magazines. She reads without the use of glasses and her eye site, according to her own words, "is as good as it was forty years ago."
She still recalls intimate details of the impressiveness of the dedication of the cemetery, seventy years ago and her memory serves her in good stead as she reminisces on the historic occasion when Lincoln hushed and inspired a restless audience that had tired of two hour oration, that preceded Lincoln's brief , masterful utterance.
She has returned to Gettysburg a number of times and her unfailing memory enables her to picture the imposing scene of Lincoln, tall and gaunt, in a calm low voice, and visibly moved
the heavy loss of life on the Gettysburg battlefield, five months prior, dedicate the ground made sacred by the blood of a divided nation.
Mr. and Mrs. Myers, recently, observed their sixtieth anniversary of their marriage and are looking forward to the few years ahead when they hope to observe the diamond jubilee of their marriage.
Unable to attend next Sunday's observances, Mrs Myers has made arrangements to hear the broadcast in her son's home.
The article also appeared in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, dated Sunday, Feb. 7, 1932. (T).
Here is a link to the article https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/news/recollect.htm Thanks to zapcomix 47126528.
17 NOV. 1933
COUNTY WOMAN, 90, PENS STORY OF
MEETING AND HEARING LINCOLN HERE
A little old white haired lady, frail of body, but surprisingly energetic and alert, genial of disposition and possessing all the mental faculties of a woman half her age, reads with intense interest, of the seventieth anniversary plans of the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, and Lincoln's immortal words, "four score and sever years ago…."
Despite her advanced age of 90 Mrs. Sarah A. Myers, wife of John T. Myers, native of Adams County, and now residing with her son, Albert Cook Myers, Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Historical Commission, at Moylan, near Philadelphia, is anxious
to return to Gettysburg and participate in the exercises commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery, Sunday November 19.
Seventy years ago Mrs. Myers, then Sarah A Cook, of Bendersville, Adams County, a girl of 20, rode with her sister to the Gettysburg Cemetery and stood in the vast throng that heard the martyred Lincoln deliver the famed address.
Her advanced years preclude any possibility of her attending this year's observance. In fair weather she enjoys automobile rides in the county side around Moylan, but the one hundred twenty five mile ride to Gettysburg is too long for her to hazard.
Four years ago Mrs. Myers penned her own vivid picture of her meeting with Lincoln. She Wrote:
"It was in the morning, November 19, 1863, in the parlor of Judge David Wills, in Gettysburg, that I shook the hand of President Lincoln. He was so tall that he stooped to take my hand, which seemed so small in his. Silently he smiled down upon me. I then walked up to the cemetery before the president's procession started and sat upon the rough wooden platform."
"I was close to the President and heard all of his address, but it seemed short. Then their was an impressive silence, like our Menallen Friends' meeting. There was no applause when he stopped speaking."
"I was then a school girl of 20, Sallie A. Cook, living with my mother, Ruth A. Cook, a widow of Jesse Cook and my brothers and sisters at our beloved old family homestead, Cook's Mill, on Possum Creek, in the foot hills of South Mountains. One mile above Bendersville and eleven miles north of Gettysburg, in Menallen Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania."
"There I was born, July 9, 1844, a birthright Friend or Quaker. My next oldest sister, Elmira Jane Cook, went with me to Gettysburg."
Mrs. Myers is an enthusiastic reader of the daily newspapers and magazines. She reads without the use of glasses and her eye site, according to her own words, "is as good as it was forty years ago."
She still recalls intimate details of the impressiveness of the dedication of the cemetery, seventy years ago and her memory serves her in good stead as she reminisces on the historic occasion when Lincoln hushed and inspired a restless audience that had tired of two hour oration, that preceded Lincoln's brief , masterful utterance.
She has returned to Gettysburg a number of times and her unfailing memory enables her to picture the imposing scene of Lincoln, tall and gaunt, in a calm low voice, and visibly moved
the heavy loss of life on the Gettysburg battlefield, five months prior, dedicate the ground made sacred by the blood of a divided nation.
Mr. and Mrs. Myers, recently, observed their sixtieth anniversary of their marriage and are looking forward to the few years ahead when they hope to observe the diamond jubilee of their marriage.
Unable to attend next Sunday's observances, Mrs Myers has made arrangements to hear the broadcast in her son's home.
The article also appeared in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, dated Sunday, Feb. 7, 1932. (T).
Here is a link to the article https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/news/recollect.htm Thanks to zapcomix 47126528.
COUNTY WOMAN, 90, PENS STORY OF
MEETING AND HEARING LINCOLN HERE
A little old white haired lady, frail of body, but surprisingly energetic and alert, genial of disposition and possessing all the mental faculties of a woman half her age, reads with intense interest, of the seventieth anniversary plans of the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, and Lincoln's immortal words, "four score and sever years ago…."
Despite her advanced age of 90 Mrs. Sarah A. Myers, wife of John T. Myers, native of Adams County, and now residing with her son, Albert Cook Myers, Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Historical Commission, at Moylan, near Philadelphia, is anxious
to return to Gettysburg and participate in the exercises commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery, Sunday November 19.
Seventy years ago Mrs. Myers, then Sarah A Cook, of Bendersville, Adams County, a girl of 20, rode with her sister to the Gettysburg Cemetery and stood in the vast throng that heard the martyred Lincoln deliver the famed address.
Her advanced years preclude any possibility of her attending this year's observance. In fair weather she enjoys automobile rides in the county side around Moylan, but the one hundred twenty five mile ride to Gettysburg is too long for her to hazard.
Four years ago Mrs. Myers penned her own vivid picture of her meeting with Lincoln. She Wrote:
"It was in the morning, November 19, 1863, in the parlor of Judge David Wills, in Gettysburg, that I shook the hand of President Lincoln. He was so tall that he stooped to take my hand, which seemed so small in his. Silently he smiled down upon me. I then walked up to the cemetery before the president's procession started and sat upon the rough wooden platform."
"I was close to the President and heard all of his address, but it seemed short. Then their was an impressive silence, like our Menallen Friends' meeting. There was no applause when he stopped speaking."
"I was then a school girl of 20, Sallie A. Cook, living with my mother, Ruth A. Cook, a widow of Jesse Cook and my brothers and sisters at our beloved old family homestead, Cook's Mill, on Possum Creek, in the foot hills of South Mountains. One mile above Bendersville and eleven miles north of Gettysburg, in Menallen Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania."
"There I was born, July 9, 1844, a birthright Friend or Quaker. My next oldest sister, Elmira Jane Cook, went with me to Gettysburg."
Mrs. Myers is an enthusiastic reader of the daily newspapers and magazines. She reads without the use of glasses and her eye site, according to her own words, "is as good as it was forty years ago."
She still recalls intimate details of the impressiveness of the dedication of the cemetery, seventy years ago and her memory serves her in good stead as she reminisces on the historic occasion when Lincoln hushed and inspired a restless audience that had tired of two hour oration, that preceded Lincoln's brief , masterful utterance.
She has returned to Gettysburg a number of times and her unfailing memory enables her to picture the imposing scene of Lincoln, tall and gaunt, in a calm low voice, and visibly moved
the heavy loss of life on the Gettysburg battlefield, five months prior, dedicate the ground made sacred by the blood of a divided nation.
Mr. and Mrs. Myers, recently, observed their sixtieth anniversary of their marriage and are looking forward to the few years ahead when they hope to observe the diamond jubilee of their marriage.
Unable to attend next Sunday's observances, Mrs Myers has made arrangements to hear the broadcast in her son's home.
The article also appeared in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, dated Sunday, Feb. 7, 1932. (T).
Here is a link to the article https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/news/recollect.htm Thanks to zapcomix 47126528.
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