- THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER -=r
ivoid Rush, Worry And
loctors. Aunt Anns Dotson
luggests For Long Life
j, CHRISTINE BAERMANN
Staff Writer
rhe secret to a long and full
, a "not to worry about things
,'ve not got" according to Mrs.
w Dotson, better known as
unt Anna", who just passed her
li birthday.
|ve always worked but never
bed. and I ain't worried in
its. I taught myself to be con
ted with what I had even
ugh we had many hard times,"
said as she sat serenely in the
tig room of her neice, Mrs. Ida
idcrson, at 205 N. Pine St.,
teluood. with whom she now
kes her home.
I'm the powerfulest person to
d you ever saw," Mrs. Dotson
amented when asked how she
nds most of her time. In all
? g8 years she has only tried
sses once, and gave them up
an unnecessary luxury for her
e. blue eyes.
;he result of her reading is evi
tt in Aunt Anna's knowledge of
rid affairs and the world around
, Although she never goes out
i more and had only a limited
de school education, she has
t the Neew Testament through
times land is on the 4th), has
|d a history of World War II
likes to read about current
lire, reads all newspapers that
le into the house, and many
ks, especialy religious stories,
Irh a neighbor brings her from
library.
fifty-six years ago Aunt Anna
had typhoid fever, and that is the
last time she went to a doctor un
til a month ago when she was
suffering from a serious sore
throat.
Adnt Anna is the widow of
Philetus V. Dotson, who died 23
years ago. They had a 50-acre farm
at the lower end of Crabtree Town
ship, almost on the Fines Creek
Township line. "If the house were
a few feet farther on, we could
have slept in Crabtree and eaten
in Fines Creek," Aunt Anna jokes.
Her husband was born and rais
ed in Iron Duff, although Aunt
Anna was born in Davison County
in the eastern part of the state,
then lived in Polk County, where
she had to walk 3 miles to and
from school, and finally came to
Haywood with her family when
she was about 13 years old. Her
parents were faarmers, her moth
er, Emily McCrary, English, and
her father, Wiliam Fry, was
brought from Germany at the age
| of 3.
Nine years ago Aunt Anna sold
the old farm and moved to a lit
tle house she owns in Hazelwood.
There she kept house for a bach
elor brother, John Fry, who died
this past April at the age of 76. It
was then that she gave up her ac
tive life to live a more leisurely
one with her niece.
Aunt Anna has been a member
of the Methodist Church for 67
years, first in the old Fines Creek
church, and more recently in the
Hazelwood Methodist. | Since she
does not go out, she looks forward
to the visits of her pastor, the Rev.
R. P. Hahn, every week or so.
In speaking of those hard times
that she lived through with Christ
ian faith, Aunt Anna recalls the
farm they once lost, and the long
18 years it took to pay for another
farm, the pinched times when to
bacco and produce prices went
down to nothing, and saddest of
all, the loss of her only child, a
daughter Alma, who died within
a few years of Mr. Dotson's death.
But Aunt Anna remembers most
thinks with a twinkle like the trip
she and her husband made from
their farm to Waynesville the year
after they were married. They
were bringing tobacco by wagon
to the warehouse, and they rode
horseback over "the roughest and
muddiest roads you can imagine."
Of course they passed what is now
Lake Junaluska. and "it was just
a valley of fine looking land?no
lake, or stores and just a few
farms. That was such a big trip,
we had to stay overnight, with a
relative near Waynesville. I
"AUNT ANNA" DOTSON, who celebrated her
88th birthday September 6, reads constantly and
without classes and looks life straight In the face
out of her dear blue eyes. "You can't worry
about things you've not got," she says.
(Mountaineer Photo).
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'Grandpa' Of
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Consider the little want ad.
Classified paces of U.S. news
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Advertising has grqprn to big
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started with the little want ad
When America was young and a
man had something to sell, he
announced it in a few lines of
type. Today he often does it in
a few hundred lines, maybe in
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tonlus had this inscribed on a
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over the thief he will receive an
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things lost and found, were writ
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Libelli, or bills.
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dured through all the years of
changing habits, conditions and
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i ' " ?' ?
pages of any newspaper, large or
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Few "Employment Wanted"
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means that business is good. Few
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Numerous "Houses for Sale"
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her bereavement. And ever pres
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The little want ads in your local
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as it is lived in your town. They
are your best market place, your
means of announcing to your fel
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they should be sure to Include
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newspapers. There, the story of
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ful periods are written- ?
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