Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — Anne Hathaway's Descendant. [ARTICLE]

Anne Hathaway's Descendant.

In Anne Hathaway's cottage at Shottery live the last of the line to bear her historic name. This nineteenth century Anne Hathaway Is the granddaughter of Mary Taylor Baker, kinswoman of distress William Shakspeare aDd custodian of her famous home. For years Mrs, Baker owned the cottage and allowed it on her own account until the guardians of Shakspeare’s birthplace bought the historic old house for a round sum and appointed her caretaker. When extreme age rendered her unfit for the numerous trying duties of custodian, the guardians appointed her son to assist her, and he, with his two daughters, now occupies half the cottage. The younger of these girls is the last Anne Hathaway, a beautiful child of twelve, with quantities of brown hair and wonderful eyes.