Eunice Conrad
Pendleton Co. WV

submitted by Nanci Headley Kotowski nancik26301@yahoo.com
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April 14, 1893 Clarksburg (WV) Telegram

An Aged West Virginian

Possibly the oldest Person now living in the State, if not in the 
United States, is in the person of Aunt Eunice Conrad, of 
Cederville[?], Gilmer county, W. Va., her maiden name being 
Mace.  She was born in that part of the old State, now Pendleton 
county, this State, August 4, 1776, making her age 116 years 7 
months and 23 days.  Her parents, of German descent, were
born in the old country.  She with her parents moved to Bulltown 
near[?]Braxton, C. B. [?] when she was about six years old, 
being the first family to settle on the Little Kanawha river.  
The nearest whites were at Buckhannon, about thirty miles away.  
The Indians were driven from Bulltown the day before here parents 
moved in, leaving great quantities of bear meat and venison.  
At the age of twenty-eight she was married to Jacob Conrad,
and settled on Dust Camp Creek, Gilmer county, being the first 
to settle on that creek. She is the mother of 14 children, 9 
boys and 5 girls, all of whom save her youngest, Henry, with 
whom she lives on Bull Run, have preceeded [sic] her to the 
grave.  She draws a pension of $12 per month in consequence of 
her husband serving in the war of 1812.  Your informant paid
her a visit recently and found her well and hearty.  Although 
her hearing and sight are somewhat impaired, she has the right 
use of her mind, and seems to take great delight in talking of 
her younger days.  She makes her own bed, and is able to be 
about the house considerably.  She says the last winter was the 
hardest she ever saw but one.