From: KyArchives Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2017 9:20 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Whitley.Elmira.1904.Breckinridge-Warren.OBIT Elmira WHITLEY October 1904 Breckinridge-Warren County KyArchives Obituaries Breckinridge News, Cloverport, Ky., Wednesday, October 26, 1904 DEATH NOTICE Page 6, Column 3 LIVED ALONE IN OLD LOG CABIN -- Smith's Grove, Ky (Warren County) October 18, 1904 (Special) Miss Elmira WHITELY, age 87, died at her home near Hydro, this county, of pneumonia. She lived alone in a log cabin built by her father in 1803, where she spun yarn, and wove cloth upon a loom made in Virginia 25 years ago. She was never out of the state, was never in town, and never saw a steam engine. Submitted by: Peggy Russell meemawpeg7@gmail.com Additional Comments: This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/