Elbert County GaArchives News.....Mrs. VanDuzer's  Silver Spoon February 18, 1889
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Savannah Morning News February 18, 1889
     Mrs. VanDuzer of Elberton has a great curiosity in the shape of a silver
spoon that is 212 years old. This spoon was made in France by order of a
gentleman of that country, who had six daughters, and to each he presented a spoon
with the request that they be kept as relics, and handed down, from generation
to generation, to the oldest daughter. Mrs. VanDuzer is its rightful inheritor
in her branch of the family and is anxious to know if the descendants from the
other daughters have as sacredly preserved their keepsakes. This spoon was made
before anything but pure silver was used, and it is now half worn away. It has
never been in a fire and fortunately escaped the fingers of Butler during the
war and the newly enfranchised since. Its owner keeps it securely under lock and
key in obedience to the request of her ancient ancestor will on her death, leave
it to her oldest daughter, Mrs. Hester Oglesby, of ELbert county. Mrs. VanDuzer
has also another interesting relic in a counterpane, that was seventy-five years
ago, spun on a reel and woven by hand in one of the first foot-treadle looms
ever used in this country.

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