Cambria County PA Archives News.....Wilson - Twenty Years is Bed April 22, 1871
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The Cambria Freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938: April 22, 1871 April 22, 1871
Wilson - Twenty Years is Bed 
It is a fact that may not be generally known, even among our own citizens, that
there is in this community a colored woman named Wilson, now aged about 62 years,
who has not only been confined
to her bed for the last twenty years or upward, but who has been forced in all that
time to rest in one position, owing we believe to an attack of paralysis. Never,
since taking her bed, has she been able from her own volition, to rise from it, and
never has she been out of it except for very brief periods, and only then through
the agency of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Roberts, with whom she lives, or some other
person or persons called to her aid. Notwithstanding her severe and protracted
afflictions, this old woman is in the enjoyment of all other natural functions and
is always in the best of spirits. She came here many years ago with Mr. Jacob
Turner, to whom she was indentured when only three years of age. Her case is
certainly a remarkable one, and well worthy the attention of medical men and others
interested in such matters.

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