In a message dated 6/20/02 5:48:48 PM, stonesandbones@yahoo.com writes: << It was submitted by (stonesandbones@yahoo.com) on Thursday, June 20, 2002 at d: d: d --------------------------------------------------------------------------- contributor_name: Sharon Strout newspaper_name: News newspaper_date: JAN 1893 town_of_publication: Frederick county_of_publication: Frederick state_of_publication: Maryland newspaper_article: FOUR GENERATIONS REPRESENTED Mrs. Ann Cronise celebrated her ninety-third birthday at Lewistown Saturday last. Though ninety-three years old she is hale and hearty yet and has not missed a regular meal, three a day, for eighteen months. She makes up her own bed every morning and goes out of the house to the pump and washes her hands and face in cold water. The bedstead she sleeps on, she has used for seventy-two years. It was given by her father, and the cord, made of flax, or tow, she helped to spin and make in her single days and has been sleeping on it ever since. She has a butter tub 65 years old and a flour sack seventy years old and uses it yet to go to the mill. She has six living children and three dead. Those living are, Mrs. Peter Zimmerman, Mrs. Daniel Gaugh, Mrs. Alex Ramsburg, Jacob Cronise, of this county; Mrs. Jacob Heagy, of Adams County, PA, and Mr. William H. Cronise, of Wheatland, Botetourt County, VA. She has living 44 grandchildren, scattered over Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado, and she has been a widow about 30 years. She has pieced and joined 6 quilts in a little over two months past. She lived in Carroll County until married, about four miles from Westminster. Her maiden name was Nicodemus. Submit: Submit Article --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>