Schley County GaArchives Photo Group.....James M. & Eliza Jane Hearn Lawhorn July 1, 1938
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Source:             The Ellaville Sun  Friday, July 1, 1938  Vol. 2, No. 1
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MRS. J.M. LAWHORN TO BE 101 TUESDAY
Aged Schley Woman---"Just Tired"----Confined to Bed for Past Five Weeks; 
Husband, Already 101, Remarkably Alert; Both Untouched by Modern Times.

Mrs. J.M. Lawhorn of Schley County, enfeebled and somewhat weary, becomes 101 
years old Tuesday.  

Her more active husband, to whom she was married 75 years ago after a 
courtship which began when they were tiny children, reached his 101st birthday 
on February 1.

Although remarkably alert until that time, the aged woman has been confined to 
bed for the past five weeks.  She sits up in bed much of the time but 
complains of being "just tired."  She declares a doctor has never visited her 
and refuses to allow one to be called now.

Mrs. Lawhorn's hearing is badly impaired and consequently she finds 
conversation difficult.  But she smiles, with bright eyes, and extends her 
hand to visitors when they come in, and leave.

Her husband still insists upon doing chores about their farm in Concord 
community.  And his physique and bearing belie his age.  However, he has 
declined sharply in health during the past year and a half since this writer 
called for an interview shortly before his one hundredth birthday 
anniversary.  The aged couple have never attempted to adjust their lives to a 
changing civilization.  They belonged to another era and they can scarcely 
believe and are little interested in modernity.  Neither has ridden on a 
railroad train, talked over a telephone, worn a pair of eyeglasses, owned a 
radio or "gotten around" to learning how to read and write.

They have done almost no traveling.  He has been to Columbus, 50 miles away, 
several times and to Americus, about 25 miles from his home, many times.  
She's been to Americus too, but never further away.

Mr. Lawhorn is a teetotaller.  "I never took a drink of likker in my life.  
Folks that drink Likker get killed.  And I don't smoke or chew.  Got my first 
one to tackle.  All tobacco does is make you sick.  And I'm too young to 
learn."

He doesn't want any false teeth to replace the natural ones, pulled many years 
ago.  "I eat as good as anyone.  I don't want any other teeth."

Mrs. Lawhorn doesn't like automobiles.  "I tried it once and it made ne sorta 
dizzy.  But I don't want to go no further than I can walk, anyway.  I've seen 
trains pass but never rode on one or saw one stopped."

Looking back over their 75 years together, she says she's cooked three meals 
for him practically every day and observes, "That's a heap of meals.  Sure 
that would have fed all the Yankee and Confeds for one meal, anyway."

They were sweethearts about as far back as they can remember .  How many times 
did he propose marriage?  Well, he couldn't remember.  A dozen?  he was 
asked.  "I recon so", he replied.


Additional Comments:
(Transcriber's notes:  According to the "History of Schley County" in a 
biography authored by Inez Robinson Smith, James M. Lawhorn was born February 
1, 1837 and he married Eliza Jane Hearn, who was born July 1, 1837.  She died 
Oct. 25, 1938 and Mr. Hearn died Sept. 26, 1940.  Mrs. Smith indicates they 
are both buried at Phillippi Primitive Baptist Church cemetery.  Their graves 
it would seem are un-marked.)

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