This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TAYLOR, EISENHOWER Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/791 Message Board Post: Holdenville Daily News, Friday Feb. 25, 1955 pg. 1 Ike Sends Greetings To City Resident On 100th Birthday The "only president we have had since the Civil War" has sent his best wishes to Mrs. Emma TAYLOR. She is 100 years old today. She won't back up that quote with elaboration but it is only one of many pronounced views Mrs. TAYLOR has on subjects ranging from politics to religion. As far as anyone could determine this week, Mrs. TAYLOR is the oldest living resident in Holdenville at the present. Today she is celebrating the occasion with a big Birthday party and an open house from 1 until 5 p.m. There will be more than one cake she has been told but she doesn't know who is going to bake them. "Please accept my sincere congratulations upon your birthday. May good health be yours through many more happy years. Dwight D. EISENHOWER" Mrs. TAYLOR has the run of the house at 208 N. Kelker, where she lives with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. TAYLOR, and although she will hardly admit, she is pretty spry compared to any other 100-year-old we know. She gets around with out a cane most of the time inside the house, has given up reading almost because of her eyesight is not too good, but she watches the fights regularly on TV "because Colonel (her son) does and I have to stay up too." More spectacular is the fly trip she made to California this past summer to see two of her sons. It was the first trip by airplane and she enjoyed it and says now that is she could afford it she would never travel any other way. A few months before that she went to California and back by automobile wasn't tired she says, but you waste more time than when you travel by plane. Asked how she managed to keep so healthy through the 100 years, she let the reporter know quickly she was no spring chicken actually. Thirty years ago she says she broke her back but didn't know it for 10 years and it still bothers her. Incidentally, she hates cigarets. Not because the tobacco that's inside but because she considers the cigaret to blame for her broken back. She was in a wagon with her son when he left momentarily to light a cigaret. The mules gave a jerk causing her to fall to the ground and injured her back so she hates cigarets. She is grateful that she can still get around, however. Perhaps that's because she was "an obedient child to my parents," and also that "God is taking care of me." Following that up with a question about her religion, she says she doesn't "belong to any church". She has a non-denominational soul, but attend the Harvest Time Tabernacle. Like many of us would like to be at 100 perhaps, she is not ruled by any hard-set daily routine. She simply gets up when she feels like it-from 8a.m. to 10 a.m.- and goes to bed when she gets sleepy, which is normally around 11 o'clock. She take a nap in the day-time usually. This television is "all non-sense to me" she said she asked what her favorite program is, but her son and daughter-in-law reminded her of the fights she watches regularly, and a circus program. She admits the fights are pretty good but not the wrestling! The fights she believes, are much like the ones she used to witness long ago, and one of her sons was in the circus once, which accounts for her devotion to Super-Circus. Both her parents died in their early 40's, which cannot account for her longevity. She is related, indirectly to some famous Indians, although she has little Indian blood. She is a cousin of Cynthia Ann (wife of Quanah) PARKER. Her uncle and grandfather were killed at the door to a log cabin when Cynthia Ann was captured. She has three sons living, 31 grandchildren, and 45 great grandchildren. He other two sons are W. S. TAYLOR of Sears, California and E. O. TAYLOR of Pomona, California.