Butts County GaArchives News.....Mrs. Martha Wooodruff tours Alabama - b. 1802 in Butts Co., Georgia September 27, 1911 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 October 26, 2005, 10:24 pm "The Roanoke Leader" September 27, 1911 Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, September 27, 1911 LOCAL News Anniston, Ala, Sept 25th - - - Aged 107 years, still hale, hearty and mentally alert, Mrs. Martha Woodruff, at Forney, has just completed a tour through this country with her son A.J. Tillery, himself 76 years of age. Mrs. Woodruff talks interestingly of events that are familiar to most people of this day merely through the printed page. She was born in Butts County, Georgia in 1802 and has been married twice, having two surviving children besides the son who accompanied her through the country; Wyatt Woodruff, a son, of Kansas, age 76 and Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, age 74, a daughter. (Transcribed by C. Teal Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 October 25, 2005) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/mrsmarth2365nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb