Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — Never Saw a Railroad Train. [ARTICLE]

Never Saw a Railroad Train.

In this age of progress and invention and rapid travel and all that sort of thing, there are not many people in the United States who have lived for half a century within a few miles es a metropolitan city and not ridden on a railroad or street car. Mra Nancy Rowland, of Lone Jack, Mo., is one of them. She is 64 years old and has lived f« *lxty years within thirty-five miles el Kansas City and was never In a city until she came to town this morning. She came from Lee’s Summit over the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and it was the first time she had ever been in a railroad car. She never saw a street car until this morning, when she rode up town on one from the Union depot. Mrs. Rowland’s lack of womanly curiosity is not the only remarkable thing abeut her. She is the mother of eleven children, and all of them are alive and lu good health. The eldest Is 48 the youngest 18 yean old. She has two grandchildren, and there is not a sickly one among them. Mrs. Rowland was never sick a day in her life and aevertooka dose of medicine until three years ago, when she had a slight attack of pneumonia. She has never drunk ooffee, has never seen a play or a circus, was never to a dance, never saw a woman in bloomers and was never out es Jackson County since she was 14 years old until to-day, when she took a train at 1 o’clock to visit her married daughter, who lives in Oklahoma.— Kansas City Star.