Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Charlotte Wickliffe (colored), who claimed to have handed Washington a cup of water at the battle of Yorktown, died at Louisville, aged 117. Of her seventy-five surviving children and grandchildren the oldest is nearly one hundred years old'.