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Found this in my browsings- not related
"Aunt Betty" Dowling Dead
Oldest Old Maid in the United States Passes Away
Seymour, Ind., - April 5. "Aunt" Betty Dowling, born in Kentucky in February
1796, a resident of the western part of this county, where she has lived in a primitive
cabin, still in good preservation, since it was erected by her father in 1816, is dead.
For years she had lived alone, and almost unattended, surviving all her immediate
relatives. Surviving for half a century within one mile of a railroad, she had never seen
an engine of a train of cars, nor had she been five miles away from her rugged home since
her girlhood.
"Aunt" Betty was never sick, and at her death she was undoubtedly the oldest
inhabitant of Indiana, and for years it was her claim and her proud boast that she was
"the very oldest old maid in the United States". Always active and very useful,
her life was uneventful, and age considered, she knew very little of the world outside of
the rude hills and rugged forests that environed her humble abode.
This matches her in 1900
Name: Betsey Dowling
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1900
Event Place: Carr Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States
District: 67
Gender: Female
Age: 105
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Race (Original): W
Relationship to Head of Household: Aunt
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Aunt
Number of Living Children:
Years Married:
Birth Date: Aug 1795
Birthplace: Kentucky
Marriage Year (Estimated):
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother of how many children:
Sheet Number and Letter: 14A
Household ID: 300
Line Number: 28
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T623
GS Film Number: 1240378
Digital Folder Number: 004118629
Image Number: 00711
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Doch Nowland M 52 Indiana
Wife Martha Nowland F 50 Indiana
Son Henry Nowland M 9 Indiana
Son Samuel Nowland M 20 Indiana
Son Chartal Nowland M 14 Indiana
Aunt Betsey Dowling F 105 Kentucky
Indiana death index
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