Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year Number 65
Marlin Texas, Friday, July 17, 1931
'i'LL SHOW 'EM I'M ABLE,'
-- AND GRANDMOTHER DID!
Ninety-Three-Year Old Woman
Attends Reunion at
Tomlinson Hill
"I'll show 'em I'm able," declared Mrs Belle Scott, 93-year-old Travis resident,
when she read an article in The Democrat this week quoting
members of the family as stating she would be unable to attend the 1931 reunion
of the Falls County Old Settlers and Confederate Veterans Association at
Tomlinson Hill. And she did.
Shortly after Judge S. R. Scott of Waco, a
son of this remarkable woman, had expressed regrets to the crowd over inability
of his mother to be present, why up popped Grandmother Scott, accompanied by her
daughter, Miss Mittie Scott, of Travis.
"I thought I told you not to come over
here," Judge Scott said.
"And since when did you get to be my boss?"
his mother demanded.
About a half century back and a spanking
probably would have culminated such a controversy.
"When Mother saw that piece in The Democrat
saying she was unable to make the trip, she promptly made up her mind she was
going to Tomlinson Hill. And here she is," said Miss Mittie Scott.
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