CLARK NV Archives Obituaries.....[WISHER, Katie - 12/1960	]
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 LAS VEGAS SUN - 12/6/1960

KATIE WISHER DIES AT 100

	Katie Wisher, 100-year-old West Las Vegas woman who was born 
into slavery and lived the last year of her life in Las Vegas, will be buried in 
Woodlawn Cemetery tomorrow.
	The century-old woman, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Oct. 22, 
died over the weekend in Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital after a five-month illness.
	Rev. V. C. L. Coleman will officiate at funeral services at 11 a.m. tomorrow 
in the Second Baptist Church on "D" St., according to Sunset Funeral Chapel, which is 
handling arrangements.
	Mrs. Wisher, of [address omitted], was born in Convent, La., in 1860-the 
year Abraham Lincoln was elected president with a vow to free her people from slavery.
	She always preferred the memories, however, especially in her twilight years, 
of the sunny cane fields where she worked and played as a child, and the first railroad 
through the South - rather than the grim and bloody four years of civil war caused by the 
South's intransigent opposition to Lincoln's principle of freedom.
	Mrs. Wisher is survived by [omitted]