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Wilbur C. A~iinon	3~une 11, 193?	#24O~ Folklor•
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	Her home is comfortably furnished two story house with a front porch where, in the confort of an old rookin~ chair, she smoke her pipe and dreams as the daye alip away. Her children and their children are devoted to her. with but a few wanta or requests, her daya are qui~t~ and ~saeefu1.

	Kentucky with its past history etui retaina its hold. She refers to lt as “GOd~ Chosen Landw and. would prefer to ex4 her days where about eighty years of her life was spent.

	On her 101st birthday (l93~) she posed for a picture, seated in her favorite chair with her closest friend, her pipe.

	Abraham Lincoln is as big a man with her today a~ when he freed her people.

	With the memories of the Civil War still freeh in her mind and and secret longing to return to her Old Kentucky Home ‚ ?I~‘s • Anna Smith, born in May of 1855 and better known to her frie~ida as “Grendiia“ Smith, is spending ber renaining days with her grandohiidren, in a pleasant home at 518 Bishop Street.

	On a plantation ow~~d by 3\idge ~t~ll, on the banks of the Ohio River at Henderson, K~ Aima (Toll) Smith was born. From her own story1 and inforniat j on gathered from o thor sources ~ the year 1833 is ~s near~correot date as possible to obtain.
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