Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lawhorn, Mrs. J.M. October 25, 1938
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The Ellaville Sun  Friday, Oct. 28, 1938  No. 17
101 YEAR-OLD WOMAN DIES
Mrs. J.M. Lawhorn, at 101 years of age, Schley county's oldest woman and 
untouched by modernity, was buried at Phillippi Primitive Baptist church 
Wednesday.

Ill for the past five months, Mrs. Lawhorn declared she never felt bad--
was "just tired."

She died at her home a few miles from Ellaville, where she had lived for the 
past 75 years with her 101 year-old husband.  Funeral services were held under 
the direction of Elder Hassell McCorkle.

Unattended by a doctor all her life, Mrs. Lawhorn refused to let one be called 
in until two months ago, when for the first time in the lives of either of the 
Lawhorns a doctor entered the portals of their home.

Until a few months ago Mrs. Lawhorn welcomed visitors with a friendly smile, 
and though her hearing was badly impaired, she enjoyed enjoyed conversations--
mostly she would in her warm voice impart to others the alertness and 
cordiality that was hers.

Recently she said she and her husband were of another era, and they had not 
attempted to adjust their lives to a changing civilization.  Neither was 
interested in modernity--and neither ever rode on a railroad train, talked 
over a telephone, wore a pair of eye glasses, owned a radio, or "got around" 
to "learning to read and write."  

She had never been farther from home than Americus--a distance of 25 miles--
and that a long time ago.

Mrs. Lawhorn often expressed her dislike for automobiles.  "I tried it once 
and it made me sorta dizzy," she said, "but I don't want to go no farther than 
I can walk, anyway."

Until sickness weakened her to the point where she had to remain in bed all 
the time, Mrs. Lawhorn was proud to say she "cooked every meal every day for 
my husband."

"That's a heap of meals," she'd exclaim.  "Sure, that would have fed all the 
Yankees and Confeds for one meal, anyway."

Mrs. Lawhorn's only survivor is her husband, who wants to continue to live his 
natural life unbothered by the intricacies of modern times.  Like his wife, he 
has no use for anything outside the era in which they lived their quiet, 
simple and happy lives.

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