Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — REMEMBERS THE REVOLUTION. [ARTICLE]

REMEMBERS THE REVOLUTION.

Grandma Hawthorne Is Approaching the Century and a Quarter Mark. One of the most Interesting women In history resides seven miles from Bonham, Tex. Her name is Mrs. Fam nie Hawthorne, and she Is now 117 years old. “Grandma" Hawthorne, as she is familiarly called by those who kn iw her, Is remarkable for more reasons than one. Notwithstanding her groat age she talks entertainingly and clearly and retains her mental faculties to a marked degree. But it Is with the incidents of her early life that she is most familiar, and her stories of the stirring events of the days of the revolution are exceedingly Interesting. She was 12years old when Cornwallis with his British and Tories invaded this country and forced able-bodied men to join the army of the King. All who refused were shot down. The men of the colony at length rose up against such tyranny and shouldered their guns to tight the common enemy. The women of the day, with the fire of patriotism burning in their hearts, took the place of their husbands ana sons and went into the fields and cultivate I the crops. One day the British and Tories swooped down on the little settlement where Mrs. Hawthorne lived and burned and destroyed their houses and crops. The soldier colonists hearing of the raid, turned back to protect their families and in a hot engagement, which the old lady describes us if it happened but yesterday, boat of! the foe. Her stories of Gen Jackson's campaign are also most interesting. Mrs. Hawthorne’s mother lived to l»e 115, while an aunt reached the age of 114.