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Amazing to think of the things this lady witnessed in her lifetime.

obituary wrote:IUKA, MS - Florence Smith, 109, died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008, at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Iuka. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Patterson Memorial Chapel in Corinth.

That would mean she was born during the Spanish American War, if I remember my history correctly.

She would have been old enough to remember vivid details of WWI, the Depression, WWII, and other events that some of us younger folks only relive through second hand accounts.

Amazing.

She sure could of told us all about a lot of changes that has took place in her life time. Even, just the air plane age.. how its advanced. Sound barrier etc..all the way to space.
It would of been good to sit at her side and listen to some stories.

My mom would of been 103 this March, had she lived.

We just buried a dear old sister from our church who was a month short of being 98. She raised around 8 of her siblings (in the hills of KY) being the oldest after their Mother died and their Father had abandomed them earlier. And then married and raised 3 of her own here in MI.

All her siblings are gone except 2.

That would be some great stories.

My wifes grandmother passed away about 5 years ago. She was in her mid 90s. She had stories to tell. He dad was a Wagon Wheel Builder by trade. She remembers moving out west in covered wagon taking weeks. Living in Sod Houses in the praires of Nebraska. etc.

I thought it was great that during her last 10 years she was making the trip via Jets in less than 4 hours LOL not 4 months...

I took a trip back to the Tennessee County my family came from to a historical meeting a few years back.

In walked a woman that had the County Historian crowing with delight as he introduced her to us. This is Ms. Soandso...her father was a Union officer in the Civil War and her grandfather was a Confederate.

THAT is old.

Yep.. losing touch daily with the real history and not the rewritten one.

I hope someone thought to sit down and record her memories before she passed. I heard someone say that when one of our elders dies, it's like a library burning down. You lose such a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.

It is very important to talk to all your older relatives before it's too late for them to remember the names of all the folk on those cardboard backed golden tinged "black and white" photos.

Last week, a local and well respected small business owner in Moulton died. He was 82. I didn't know it until I read his obit, but his mother is still alive!! How 'bout that?