Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — REMEMBERS THE REVOLUTIC. [ARTICLE]

REMEMBERS THE REVOLUTIC.

Grandina Hawthorne 1( Approaching the Century and a Quarter Mark. Ofio of the most interesting worn n iv Jiiet jry resides seven miles frt.m Bonham, Tex. Her name is Mrs. Fannie Hawthorne, and she is now 11'. years old. "Grandma" Hawthorne, a sho is familiarly called by those wi o kn w her, Is remarkable for mor reasons than one, Notwithstanding he great age she talks entertainingly an clearly and retains her mental faeul t es to a marked degree. But it is wit:, the incidents of her early life that sin i most familiar, and her stories of the stirring events of the days of the revolution are exceedingly interesting, t ho was 12 years old when Cornwall! with his British and Tories invade, this country and forced able-bodie' men.to join the army of the King. A! • lio refused were shot down. The me o the colony at length rose up agains' such tyranny and shouldered thei guns to fight the common enemy. Th women of the day, with the fire « i patriotism burning in their heart.. took the place of their husbands an H. ns and went into the fields and eulu vale 1 the crops. One day the British an 1 Tories swooped down on the little settement where Mrs. Hawthorne lived and burned and destroyed theii houses and crops. The soldier colon Isis hearing of the raid, turned bad to |> uteot their families and in a In en lagoment. which the old lady do se. ibjs us if it happened but yestcr day, beat off the foe. Her stories o Gen. Jackson’s campaign are also mod in cresting. Irs. Hawthorne’s mother lived to b. 15. while an aunt reached the age <>• 1 M.