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a. Note:   From posting at GenForum dated 17 Jul 2008 by Keith Archibald "I have a transcript of a newspaper article published 17 March 1875 in the DEMOCRAT of Ravenna, Ohio, covering the 100th birthday of Matilda (Boosinger) Sapp.
  Apparently she celebrated the special day at the residence of Daniel F. Sapp, one of her sons.
  It reports, "She was the second child in a family of thirteen, four sons and nine daughters, of Conrad and Catherine Boosinger. Of these children four only are living--Mrs. Matilda Sapp, of Ravenna, age 100; John Boosinger, of Brimfield, age 90; Mrs. Lina Haines, of Kendalville, Ind., age 80; Mrs. Rachel Saxe, of Orville, O., age 76."
  It goes on to describe her rather large family. Also mentions that, in her childhood, she saw General George Washington."
  From "Pioneer Women of Ravenna," In 1796 Miss Matilda Boosinger, a sister of Miss Polly, was married at Hagerstown, Md., to Henry Sapp, and in the spring of 1803 they emigrated to Ravenna with their three children. They made the journey by wagon until they reached the Ohio River.
  From that point the only roads were Indian paths, and the travelers completed their journey on horseback. Mrs. Sapp saw George Washington at the time of the whiskey insurrection, and heard him speak the much-quoted words, "Only a man, my son," in reply to the disappointment expressed by a boy in the crowd at finding Washington to be only a man.
  At the dinner party given Mrs. Sapp March 10, 1875, to celebrate her one hundredth birthday, this honored centenarian said grace in the German tongue, using the form and words used by her father from her earliest remembrance.
  In her ninetieth year she spun, with wheel and distaff, flax for over thirty yards of linen cloth. Soon after the loss of her sight put an end to her industry. At the age of one hundred years she retained great vigor and was a happy, contented, interesting old lady."


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