This is my Grandma Mary. Mary Frances Reid Agnew. Her parents were Charles Reid and Cora Belle Owens. She was born in southern Indiana and lived in Indiana her whole life. Her birthdate was Dec. 10, 1899. This means that she turned 1 year old on Dec.10, 1900, at the turn of the century, and 3 weeks later the world went into the year 1901. So she was 1 year old in 1901, and that went on her whole life. She was 65 in 1965, etc. Mary was quite the character, a fireball of a personality. She loved telling stories and loved little babies. She got married at age 16 to my grandpa John Wesley Agnew. They named their first born “John Thomas”, my father. They had one more child, a girl, my Aunt Margaret Ruth. The night before she passed, she was in her room at a nursing care facility laughing and talking. The nurses asked her, “Who are you talking to, Mary?” She said, “Oh I’m talking to my friends. I will see them tomorrow.”
Doctor Grandma 