--part1_462d4a64.243ab321_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit EileenGen still is not feeling up to rejoining the list, but has been kind enough to send this article for someone who might find it helpful. Please keep Eileen in your prayers. Myra --part1_462d4a64.243ab321_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: EileenGen@aol.com From: EileenGen@aol.com Full-name: EileenGen Message-ID: <462d4a64.2438281d@aol.com> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 21:27:41 EST Subject: David West/Burnette Bruer/1795/IN>MO To: CHAMBERSII@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL for Macintosh sub 54 Reply-To: EileenGen@aol.com Hi Myra, I still haven't been able to join the list yet but in sorting through my paper file, I ran across this article and wondered if you would pass it on to the list. Hope this will help somebody on the list. Thanks. Eileen 2 June 1893 >From the Richmond (MO) Democrat - A Spry Old Lady >From Capt. J.L. Farris we learn the following facts regarding Mrs. Burnette West, an aged lady of Excelsior Springs (MO). Miss Burnette Bruer was born in Indiana in 1795 and with her parents moved to Ray County (MO) early in the present century and settled about where Hardin now stands. While in Ray county she was married to David West, one of the early pioneers of Northwest Missouri. The exact date of the marriage cannot be obtained on account of absence of marriage records prior to 1820, and she must have been married about 1815. Mrs. West is now 98 years old and is as lively and can walk as far in one day as anybody. She wears a No. 2 shoe, weighs abut 100 pounds and measures five feet in height. Aside from her face being wrinkled, showing deep age, one would not judge her so old. . . . Mrs. West was the mother of 14 children, including two sets of twins. Her two oldest sons were lost in the Confederate service. Several of her children are still living in Ray and Clay counties. She has long been a widow and as such, accustomed to doing for herself. She is not educated and cannot even read. copied from a Clay County, MO book. --part1_462d4a64.243ab321_boundary--