Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1916 — TOBACCO KEEPS HER ALIVE [ARTICLE]

TOBACCO KEEPS HER ALIVE

Indiana Woman Takes a Smoke on the One Hundreath Anniversary of Her Birth. Washington, Ind. —Sarah Ellen Denny has celebrated her one hundredth birthday anniversary. Sitting on the porch at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Dave Dove, she smoked her oldfashioned clay pipe and spent the day telling her friends of her early life. She Ims used tobacco since she was sixteen years old, and says she believes tobacco is what “kept her alive.” Mrs. Denny was born in Tishlmlnga county, Tennessee, but has been a resident of Washington for many years. She gets about without the aid of a cane and does not wear glasses. She has traveled over, 12 different states, behind a team of oxen for the most part.