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	One of the oldest ex—slaves en/ountered in ~issouri is “Aunt“

Hannah Allen of Fredaricktown, who claims. she is 107 years old.

According to Madison County records, Aunt Hannah gave her age as

82 when she made application for a niarriage license in Frederick-

town in 1912.

	In spite of her extreme age, Aunt Hannah is able to do all of the work around her house and she frequently walks up town and back, a distance of several blocks. Her eyesight is very good and even at her advanced age she does not have to wear glasses. She claims her grandfather was a white man and she attri~utes her unusual health to several cau~es. She was well treated as a slave during her younger years when she was under the ownership of a family named Bollinger. She is childless and has been content to live on the seine spot during the last ‘71 years. Being a Negro, she natu~‘a1ly does not take life seriously but as she expresses it “jes‘ lives it like it comes“.

	In r~eviewing the incidents which~ she was able to recall on the occasion of the writer‘s recent visit. to her hôme, she outlined her

story as follows:	~
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