Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — 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 fer half a century within a few miles of a metropolitan city and not ridden on a railroad or street car. Mrs. Nancy Rowland, of Lone Jack, Mo., Is one of them. She is 64 years old and has lived far sixty years within thirty-five, miles ot Kansas City and was never In a city until she came tn town this morning. She came from Lee’s Summit ever ths Missouri Pacific Railroad, and it Wat the first time she had ever been In a railroad car. She never saw a streel ear until this morning, when she rods up town on one from the Union depot Mrs. Rowland’s lack of womanly curiosity is not the only remarkable thing about her. She is the mother of eleven children, and all of them are alive and In good health. The eldest is 48 and the youngest 18 years 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 never took a dese of medicine until three years age, when she had a slight attack of pneumonia. She has never drunk coffee, has never seen a play or a circus, was never to a dance, never saw a woman In bloomers and was never out of Jackson County since she was 14 years o?d until to-day, when she took a train at 1 o’clock to visit her married daughter, who lives In Oklahoma.— Kansas City Star.