Stump - Martha Talbert
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Friday 18 Dec 1891
Crawfordsville has two centenarians, and down in the neighborhood of Balhinch lives an old lady, who while not quite so old, is nevertheless so spry and so keenly alive “to a sense of the situation” that she certainly deserves to rank with our centenarians in Montgomery County’s galaxy of notable old folks.
Mrs. Martha Stump is the widow of George Stump, who died over twenty years ago. She is 97 years old, and for the past 64 years has lived upon the identical farm where she now resides with her daughter, Mrs. James Tyler, in the same house the family has occupied for over 40 years. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Stump parceled the farm out among her several children, taking her residence with Mrs. Tyler in the old home place. Although so old, no one seeing her would suspect in the least her age to be so great. She is in possession of all her faculties to a degree unusual for people of sixty years, and does more real work than most persons of that age. Besides attending to certain household duties which she persists in performing, she spends much time knitting and has this winter already knit sixteen pairs of stockings. It is perhaps due as much to her activity, as to any one other thing, that she so lightly bears her age. She is able to direct the management of many affairs and insists on so doing. She is a most cheerful and comfortable old body and states that she fully intends to complete a century and more. Mrs. Stump is the grandmother of Jas. Stump, of Cohoon & Fisher’s store.