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From Page 18 After I commenced to getting a right smart age on myself, old in age, I couldn’t do very much. Then I commenced to, well, Mrs. (William) Buntin up here at little Washington put me on the welfare. Mrs. Buntin comes down here sometime herself. And when she can’t come, she sends another woman in her place.”
Miss Anna said her welfare checks come to her mailbox on Route 647, just a few feet from her front door. “This here is the mailman’s road!” Miss Anna uses her welfare checks at Mr. Hackney’s store, down near Amissville. “I used to walk down to Mr. Hackney’s, but it commenced to getting hard on my legs. Now I get people to come and carry me.”
Miss Anna doesn’t read, but she had one book. “Just like a Bible. Same thing as a Bible.” It’s a slim little blue book, published by the Watch Tower Society, containing scripture and devotional readings. Miss Anna uses the book for the safekeeping of her pictures of “Mammy Sow,” a huge hog that she raised from a suckling pig. The pictures were taken by Sarah Latham for The Rappahannock News nearly 20 years ago. Miss Anna keeps the pictures in her Watch Tower book which she keeps inside her big black pocketbook.
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