Statewide County GaArchives Obituaries.....SLATER, Aunt Peggy August 1892
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The Georgia Enterprise, August 25, 1892
GEORGIA NEWS IN BRIEF
ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED AT RANDOM FROM ALL OVER THE STATE
     The oldest woman in Georgia, Aunt Peggy SLATER, colored, died a few days 
ago at the poorhouse near Thomasville. All of Aunt Peggy’s acquaintances, her 
old master and she herself before her death, say that her age was one hundred 
and twenty-five. Aunt Peggy did not date events from the civil war, as many do, 
but from the revolution. She was a grown woman then, and in life nothing 
delighted her more than to relate reminiscences of those stirring days. She was 
a great weather prophet. The many seasons that she had experienced had left her 
wise in signs, and she could foretell the indications for cold, rain, storm, 
etc. with remarkable accuracy. The Negroes looked upon her as a great wonder. 
Aunt Peggy had out-lived all her children except one, and there were quite a 
number of them. The one living is a daughter who is in her ninety-seventh year.


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