Granville-Vance County NcArchives Biographies.....Lucy, Aunt 
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Author: Charlotte Observer - Jun 14, 1911

Remarkable Negro Woman - "Aunt Lucy," Now Living With Her 85 Year Old Son at 
Henderson, Was Married When Meteoric Showers Fell in 1833.

Henderson, June 13 - There are but few, if any, persons living in the State 
whose longevity of life has reached its present limits and whose mental and 
physical powers are so well preserved, as those of "Aunt Lucy," a former slave 
of Colonel Brown of Mecklenburg, Va. In an interview with this remarkable old 
negress a few days ago, it was learned that she was removed from Virginia to 
Granville county, this State, several years prior to the meteoric showers of 
1833, which occurred in the early hours of the morning, when she thought the 
world was "afire." She states at the time she was a married woman and mother 
of her oldest son, Joe Kelley, now living in Henderson in his 85th year. If 
she was 18 years of age at the time of his birth, she must have been born in 
1808, which would make her 103 years of age. She is sprightly, speaks 
distinctly, and for one of her cast, is quite intelligent and far from being 
in her dotage.


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