MONROE COUNTY, GA - Newspapers-Bio Anne Lampkin 109 years old ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jane Newton BetsyL221@aol.com The Macon Telegraph March 18, 1941 The Circle with Eugene Anderson You might think she had lost count, but she hasn't she's 109 years old, according to the record of the Hollis Family Bible and according to her church society's celebration of its anniversary on the seventh of each March. With the month Anne Lampkin at Forysth will be 110. Her baby, Julia Lampkin Rogers is 74. The father Randall Lampkin, died five years ago at 111, according to the record in the Lampkin family Bible. On the wall of the four-room cottage home is a diploma issued to the daughter by a beauty culture school, but Aunt Anne is so likely to fall and break a bone the daughter has to give full time to nursing and watching her. A pension of eight dollars a month is the only income for the support of the two. "No, I don't feel sick, and I don't want no doctor to be coming here piling medicine on the mantel. I just won't take it", say Aunt Anne and chuckles because she always did like to have her own way. Her little coal black face is shrunken because the teeth are gone, except two or three in evidence just above the gum, and she can chew on a bone "just like a dog", laughs the daughter. "I'll eat all I can get," says the centenarian. "No matter how many times a day, I'm ready for it when they bring it to me." Memory, hearing, speech and energy are perfectly normal, but sight is slightly bedimmed, though she can yet see what is going on a block away. "'Cose I remember slavery times, " she says. "I hear 'em whispering about freedom long before the war started, but everybody was sad about it. We didn't want to be bothered. I was a grown woman, and I don't know a thing to say against slavery 'cause times was good back there. Slavery could have been better, but it wan't so bad." The 74 year old daughter then said, "I heard a woman make a speech across the railroad there in the Newton grove, and she said colored folks had a heap better time as slaves than they have ever had since, and she thought slavery had been a good thing." The daughter was born in time to see what was going on in the worst of the carpetbag days and during reconstruction. The mother learned enough to read her Bible during slavery days. She had two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was born on the same night her grandmother died in the same room 50 years ago. She sits and watches the door expecting her husband to come in at any time, though he's been dead 30 years. NOTE: Death LAMPKIN ANN CF ? OCT. 24 1941 LAMPKIN RANDALL FEB. 21 1934 LAMPKIN JOHNSON NOV. 12 1926 1930 Census Forsyth City pg 22 Rogers, Julia Head of household 59 wid Lampkin, Anne Mother 99 m 25 yr Randall Father 103 m 25 yr Bell, Herbert grandson 15 1880 Census http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/monroe/census/1880/forsyth.txt LAMPKIN SAM B M 82 AT HOME GA GA GA LAMPKIN EDA B F 74 WIFE GA GA GA LAMPKIN RANDLE B M 40 FARM LABORER GA GA GA LAMPKIN ANN B F 32 WIFE GA GA GA LAMPKIN JOHNSON B M 15 SON GA GA GA LAMPKIN JULIA B F 14 DTR GA GA GA