Washington County GaArchives News.....Aunt Penny is 108, She Says September 30, 1943
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The Sandersville Progress September 30, 1943
  Memories of those now-historic days " befo de war ", and of the fierce 
struggle in the south and the lean days which followed, crowd the mind of 
old "Aunt Penny" Reaves, Washington county colored woman who lays claim to 108 
years of life.
  "Aunt" Penny lives on the farm of J.C. McDonald, near Warthen, and although 
extremely aged, works in her Victory garden, sweeps yards, and carries in wood.
  The old colored woman remembers vividly Sherman's march through this county 
in 1864. She remembers having to burn corn cobs to get soda with which to make 
bread, and seeing cotton gins operated by blind-folded mules who were driven 
around and around turning a long pole.
  "Aunt Penny" declares that what keeps her alive is tar poultices and God. 
She does not need to wear glasses, but has never learned to read or write. Her 
mistress in the days before the War Between the States was a woman doctor by 
the name of Harris.

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