Allen County IN Archives News.....Aged Woman Breaks Shoulder in Fall 1919
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Danville, Illinois, Commercial News 1919
Aged Woman Breaks Shoulder in Fall
Mrs. Sophia Tilton Playing with her Grandchildren when She Fell
Mrs. Sophia Tilton, 91 years old, residing with her daughter-in-law Mrs. Sarah 
Tilton, 929 North Hazel Street, is crippled in the left shoulder for life as 
the result of a fall off the steps of the back porch of the Tilton residence 
(Easter) Sunday afternoon. The shoulder was broken squarely in two, and on 
account of the extreme age of the woman no anaesthetic could be given. The 
member was set as well as possible under the circumstances and the bones 
permitted to knit as best they can.
Mrs. Tilton was on the back porch steps watching her grandchildren and great 
grandchildren at play and enjoying the beautiful day. Although 91 she has 
always insisted that she was young in activities, but was compelled to admit 
that she had a weakening spell and felt dizzy when she started to get up, then 
fell to the ground.
Mrs. Tilton came to Danville two years ago from Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she 
lived alone, refusing to make her home with her children or retire from active 
duties because of her age.
She is the widow of Josiah Tilton, one of the pioneer engineers on the Wabash 
railway, the mother of the late Edgar Josiah Tilton, another well known 
engineer, and the grandmother of Leroy Tilton, an extra passenger engineer on 
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway.

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