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    1. [KYWOLFE-L] Three Women
    2. Carole Bays
    3. Wolfe County News - July 31, 1957 WOLFE COUNTY HAS 3 WOMEN WHOSE AGES AVERAGE 95 PLUS Wolfe County boasts three women whose combined ages add up to 286 years, or an average of 95 1/3 years each. The oldest is Mrs. Sarah Taulbee. She was born in 1859 and will celebrate her 98th birthday in November. She is reputed to be the oldest person in Wolfe County. She is the widow of Isaac Taulbee. Mrs. Mary Sally, widow of I.B. Sally, will be 96 on Aug. 23. She is the mother of one son, Raleigh, now dead. She has one granddaughter, Mrs. Bill Brewer, and four great-grandchildren, Billy Jean, 17; Joyce Ann, 14; Danny Raleigh, 7 and Brenda Kay Brewer, 5. Mrs. Sally has been a member of the Church of Christ at Malaga for 63 years. Mrs. Rasualine Creech Center, widow of Dr. G.M. Center, of Campton, will be 92 on Aug. 25. After 92 years, Mrs. Center still loves to wash dishes, but failing vision hinders her work. She is the mother of six living children, Mrs. J.B. Tutt, of Lexington; D.H. Center, Berea, Mrs. Viola Shackelford, Middletown, Ohio, Mrs. B. W. Rayner, Dayton, Ohio, Mrs. Bertha Lovelace, Campton, and Mrs. Carma Buchholzer, Dayton. She has 29 grandchildren, 40 great grandchildren and several great great grandchildren. Mrs. Center was married when she was 16 and has been a member of the Missionary Baptist Church for 72 years. Dr. Center practiced medicine in Wolfe County for 58 years. He was also a Missionary Baptist minister. Mrs. Center has three sisters living who are not yet 80 and two brothers and one sister who have passed 80. Carole

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