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From: "Pamela WELLS nee ROBERSON" <>
Subject: [WVLOGAN] unsubscribe
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 09:46:37 -0500
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From: Robin Bell [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 7:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] Centenarians


My great great uncle George Clarkson Smith lived to be 97. He got me
interested in genealogy. His sister, my great grandmother Sarah Elizabeth
Smith Honaker lived to be 93. Her husband Charles Robert Honaker, my great
grandfather lived to be 97. He raised tobacco the summer before he died.
Charlie and Sarah attended the funeral of their daughter Lola who died at
age 72. This is my personal opinion....They lived on a farm, used water from
a hand dug well which was purified by the "waterdoggies" that lived in the
bottom. Raised their own pork, beef, chickens and eggs. Canned their own
vegetables and fruits, jellies, jams. Used pure lard that they made from
their own hogs fat. I don't think that they got all the chemicals that we
get from our "improved foods". They also got a lot of exercise. Even in the
seventies they walked to the neighbors and to the outhouse. They worked in
tobacco and the garden. Poppy Charlie chewed tobacco, that he cured until he
died. The only time that he was in the hospital was when a mule kicked him
and broke his leg. He never had a headache in his life and had his own
teeth. He was healthy until he had a stroke that he could have recovered
from, but did not want to be a "burden" on anyone and died soon after.
Granny Sarah had colon cancer in her 80's and survived it. She did have
dementia at the last of her life. They had 9 children, one dying of
pneumonia as a baby. The children have lived to be in their 70's and 80's
except for my grandmother who died at 68. The youngest child Lena, turned 80
last October and she still works. She takes care of old people as a private
duty sitter. Robin Bell
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Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 9:15 PM
Subject: [WVLOGAN] Centenarians


> I wonder why people lived so much longer back then - not that far back
> really. One of Vandelin Brownings daughters with Elvira Smith
> Burgess, my
gg
> grandmother, lived to be a 100 - died about ten years ago up Six Mile
> - Br
ookie was
> her name. I can't think who she married - probably a Mullins or
> Burgess - keeping up the tradition - maybe an Ellis. Rick
>
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