WOMAN THEY COULDN'T KILL
Received Tuesday,. V p;m. NEW YORK, July 23. . ' ' Aunt Lizzie" Devers, aged 115 years, was found dead in ber small bome at Sapula, Oklahoma, where sne hdd lived alone. Wheti she was khOcke'd dbwit by a car two years ago, ' siifferihg brokeii bOlies, a doctok •Wafned her that she wottld nevef sfee another birthday, She declared: "I ahi Cherokee, Itish and Dut'ch attd that i§ the hieanest hiixture there is » I have had nitie httsbands, beeh hitten hy a spake Six times and hitten hy a mad dog onee. That did not kill me so I gttess I will live through this too." - Only a few ihonths ago she took her first aeroplane ride. She "did not * helieve in divorce, oiitlived all het • hushands and attrihuted her l'ong 1 lifeo to "minding my own business j and.'' having planty of business to mind. ' ' A son reputely 100 years old, works at a brick plattt.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 July 1946, Page 5
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