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Button, Sarah mrs 82 Lay Starving 19020922 newspapers

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Clipped from The Sentinel (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) 22 Sep 1902 Mon pg 4
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LAY STARVING IN THE WOODS
Mrs. Button, Aged 82, Lost For Five Weeks.
Cross Fork, Pa., Sept. 22.
Mrs. Sarah Button, an 82-year-old woman, who was found in Black Forest, where she had wandered over an area of 18 miles for five weeks, will die. Saturday, in a comatose state, she was taken to the home of her son, in Hector township. Mrs. Button had left Haneyville to walk to her son's, about 30 miles up the Coudersport Pike, and the last seen of her was that night. Last Thursday afternoon Joseph and Frank N. Swayze, diggers of ginseng root, were along Young Woman's Creek, nine miles from the nearest house, and in one of the densest parts of the Black Forest, they found Mrs. Button lying under a ledge of rocks and just able to whsper.
She had had nothing but berries for five weeks, and had crawled into a cave for shelter from the cold. One night a black bear shambled into the place and she fled. One day last week she heard voices, but was too weak to make herself heard. She is now a mere skeleton, and was carried out of the forest on a stretcher made of poles.

Clipped from The Sentinel, 22 Sep 1902, Mon, Page 4
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The Sentinel (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) 22 Sep 1902 Mon pg 4
pepperhead1 - 27 Oct 2018

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