Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1891 — AN OLD MAID’S CENTENNIAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AN OLD MAID’S CENTENNIAL.

Xn All Her Long LB* She Had bat Ona Suitor. She is one hundred years old. had been married, and probably never will be. These facts combine to make Miss Permelia Wright famous. She lives in Benton Harbor, Mich., and upon any bright day may be seen walking the streets, leaning upon a big cane. She has retained her faculties, and remembers many things that happened when the century was jus,t beginning. She was born at Fairfax Court House, Va., April 2. 1791. She says she never married because she could not bear the men. She remembers being courted eighty years ago, but by

a bungling suitor, and siuee then she has not talked with a man except upon gutters of business. She has considerable property and manages it herself. Her mind is sound, she reads without glasses, has a remarkably good appetite, regulates her sleeping and working hours by sunset and sunrise, and is remarkably regular in everything she does. She had her picture taken upon her one hundredth birthday, and laughingly attributes her long life to the fact that she has never been fatally sick.

MISS PERMELIA WRIGHT.