Clinton Courier July 27, 1978 Mrs. Wells Feted On 85th Birthday A picnic honoring Mrs. Mossie (Granny) Wells on her 85th birthday was held July 20 at Norris Dam State Park. On July 16, Hillvale Baptist Church presented her a pin with her intials and age engraved on it for being the oldest member of the church. Mrs. Wells has four children, Mrs. Eligin W. McCarty, Mrs. Elisha Miller and Bennett Dial, all of Clinton and Earl Wells of Cincinnati. She has eight grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and one great-great grandson. She is the widow of the late Swan Dial and the late Brad Wells. Granny as all her family and friends know her, does all her own housework, enjoys her flower garden, quilts, crochets and likes telling of her childhood days in Oklahoma where her parents went as pioneers in a covered wagon and staked a claim of 400 acres in the 1890's. After several attacks from both Indians and wild horses, they moved East to Tennessee in the early 1900's. Her grandfather, Moses Elder, came to America from Ireland in 1832.