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Note: ing her a farm. She went into partnership with another woman and they built a successful general store. However, when they dissolved the partnership the woman cheated Mattie out of her share. She went to Jacksonville and then to Miami and worked as a housekeeper. She worked for a well-to-do family in Coral Gables and gave them her money to invest in the stock market. She and her employers then lost everything in the market crash of 1929. Ida Belle also said that Mattie had an extra chamber in her heart. When she died the doctors requested an autopsy to study the unusual condition. Photo of "Aunt Mattie", Martha Jane Dale Lingg, taken in Miami, FL about 1926: http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/1455/mjanedale4ui.jpg
Note: Ida Belle Stephens told her daughter that Aunt Mattie's husband was much older. He died leav
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