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Note: Find A Grave Memorial# 57622665 Title: Dade County Advocate - Birthday Dinner newspaper article copy Text: Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Funk attended a birthday dinner in Greenfield last Tuesday, May 10th. The honoree, Mrs. Parthena Drisdell, aunt of Mrs. Funk, was 98 years old and makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Zella McMillan of Greenfield. Mrs. McMillan planned the dinner for her mother and others present for the day was Mrs. Ray Grant of Everton, Mrs. Minnie Brown, Mrs. Eva Moore, the honoree and the hostess. Several relatives and friends called in the afternoon. Mrs. Drisdell is the only living member of a family of twelve children. She has a son Ellis in Yuma Ariz. Mrs. Drisdell celebrated her fifty-eighth wedding anniversary with her late husband D. B. Drisdell, on March 24, 1936. They were married at the old Grant Homestead on Lynn Branch March 24, 1878. Mr. Drisdell passed away a good many years ago, they had five children, all deceased now but Mrs. McMillan and the son in Arizona. Mrs. Drisdell was the daughter of Jordan and Mary Grant who came to Missouri from Tennessee in 1840 and took up a homestead on Lynn Branch. Mr. Grant was a cousin of General U. S. Grant, and this makes Mrs. Drisdell a second cousin and our own Velma Grant Funk, a third cousin to the great General. The Jordan Grant family raised their own cotton which was spun at home. The wool was taken to the mill to be carded and they made their own clothes and wove their own blankets. John Pemberton owned the carding mill on Spring Branch near Hulston, where the people from the surrounding country brought their wool and camped for days to have the wool carded. This mill was distroyed by fire 50 or 60 years ago. The Drisdell's saw the first train that came thru Everton from KC to Memphis in 1882. Mr. Drisdell was born four miles south of Dadeville and Aunt Parthena [Mrs Drisdell] was born in the old Grant homestead on Lynn Branch 98 years ago. May 10th, 1860. Aunt Parthena enjoys these modern days but she liked the old days too. She was a fine horse back rider and much of the visiting and church going was by horseback. The country was all open at that time, no fences until about 1891 when they begin to divide the country with smaller farms. Mrs. Drisdell has lived thru many changes of the country and has always stood for the betterment and progress of the whole nation. Many more happy birthdays to Aunt Parthena.
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