Cook-Pike County IL Archives News.....Dies at the Age of 100 Years, Mrs Susie B Woodworth 1921
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Journal Of IL State Historical Society, Vol 14 1921
"You are a pretty little girl, are there any more at your home like you ?'' 
Mrs. Susie B. Woodworth, who died Monday, February 14, at. the age of 100, 
used to tell her grandchildren and great-grandchildren how Lincoln took her on 
his knee when she was 16 years old and said these words to her. Her father 
Isaac Berner, enlisted with Lincoln in the Black Hawk War and they were 
friends. Lincoln used to be a visitor at their home in New Salem. Mrs. 
Woodworth, a resident of Chicago for twenty years, died at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. Thressa W. Wines, 4632 Kenmore Avenue. She came to Illinois 
when she was 5 years old. She was born in Overton County, Tennessee. Her 
grandfather John Witt, fought in the Revolutionary War. Her body will be taken 
to Lake Maria, Wisconsin for burial in a cemetery near there, where Mrs. 
Woodworth's husband and three children are already buried.

Additional Comments:
Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Published Quarterly 
by the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April-
July, 1921 No. 1-2.

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