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Elizabeth "Carrie" Hart Lane at 90 Years old.
Explaining that earlier in the day she had enjoyed the full set of her "daily dozen" exercises, Mrs. Lane for diversion registered the top score in the contest of bending over at the waist and touching the carpet with the tips of the fingers. Many of her competitors faltered in their efforts to equal her agility.
Mrs. Lane, who has resided in St. Louis for thirty years, was born in Henderson County, Ky., July 24, 1834. She takes pride in relating experiences of her girlhood and is proud of the fact that she is the great-great-granddaughter of Nancy Hart, famous heroine of the revolutionary war, who fought beside the men in various battles.
Among the guests were Mrs. Lane's nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Davis, and daughter, Miss Thelma, of Waco, Tex. Mrs. Lane was the recipient of numerous birthday tokens and compliments. She smilingly announced yesterday that on July 24, 1934, she intended to participate in another agility contest, and not even the youngsters would be excused from participating.
Not one of the twenty-six guests at the home of Hart C. Lane, 4344 Beethoven avenue, including relatives and friends, were any livelier yesterday or enjoyed the party any more than Mrs. Carrie Lane, 90 years old, in whose honor the function was planned in celebration of the anniversary of her birth. In fact, Mrs. Lane was the life of the party.
Elizabeth "Carrie" Hart Lane at 98 Years old.
"I think I'll vote the Democratic ticket again four years from now," said Mrs. Lane, who has voted in every major election since Missouri women, in their first presidential election in 1920, were confronted by the choice between Harding and Cox.
"Certainly I'll vote it this year. If the votes goes anything like the indications of the respective primaries, Gov. Roosevelt has a pretty good chance. And I believe he's honest," she said with vigor. "I think he'll try to do what he says."
"You don't mean to say that you doubted prosperity was 'just around the corner', as Mr. Hoover said?" asked a listener. And "Grandma" Lane couldn't have made the retort more emphatic at 19.
Familiar With the Issues.
A second cousin of Thomas Hart Benton, famous Missouri Senator, and, by marriage, of Henry Clay, Mrs. Lane always has followed politics closely, by newspapers and, in the last year or so, by radio. Listening to both sides, she said. she had well-defined opinions, on prohibition and even on the Socialist campaign.
She is a dry, but said the need for a change of administration outweighed, in her estimation, her opposition to the Democratic plank for prohibition repeal.
In 1834, a three-week-old baby, she was brought in an ox-cart across the prairies and through the woods from Henderson, Ky., to St. Louis. Her father, John Jackson Hart, settled his family and his slaves on a farm near the Seventh boulevard site of the old Green Tree brewery. In a few years they removed to Cole County, near Jefferson City, where Mrs. Lane resided until about 30 years ago.
"I never spared myself," she declared. "I used to say I could do anything any other woman could do." Challenged by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. H. C. Lane, with whom she resides, she stood up spry as you please, and bent down until her fingers touched the floor.
Quilting is her chief interest. She has made dozens, and the current project is a "sunflower" pattern of 7050 pieces about an inch across. She sometimes quilts without glasses. Her only recent illness ____ ____ when at ______ _____ arm. Her high ______ _____ _____in a rug.
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Mrs. E. Carrie Lane, 98 years old, who walked two blocks from her home, 4344 Beethoven ave., to register Wednesday, had begun yesterday to contemplate voting for Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for a second term in 1936.
"What do you suppose he said it for, when he knew it wasn't so?"
Elizabeth "Carrie" Hart Lane at 90 Years Old.
Elizabeth "Carrie" Hart Lane at 98 Years Old. | | |
Janet K. Pritchard, my "HART" cousin. We are GGGGGGGranddaughters of, 
Nancy Morgan Hart, http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Meadows/6651/
Heather W. Bowers, Lane Descendants http://www.genweb.net/~bowers/lane/index.shtml
Sam Behling, Notable Women Ancestors http://members.aol.com/samcasey/ancestors/nw.html
Fiesty Women, Notable Women Ancestors http://members.aol.com/samcasey/ancestors/fiesty.html
