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OVER 30YEARS AGO
RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS
Thirty two years
ago, this week radio’s
“Breakfast iu Hollywood” sent an orchid to Mrs. Peyton Anderson of Amissville on her 100th birthday.
The grand old lady celebrated her arrival at the century mark with a party held at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A.C. Latham, Sr., in Amissville. . Born December 30, 1849, at “Cutpaper Falls,” the daughter of William Henry Miller and the granddaughter of Jessie Miller, she was named Louemma Miller.
In 1876, she married Peyton Anderson, the first man who shed blood for the Confederacy when he was wounded on picket duty near the .Fairfax Court House on May 27, 1861. Their wedding was foreshadowed years earlier by an event which occurred at a party little Louemma attended when she was just seven. A game popular at the time involved drawing names from a hat. If a boy drew a young lady’s name, he had to give her a, pair of gloves; if the young lady drew a boy’s name, she had to knit him a pair of socks. Louemma drew the name of Peyton Anderson at that long ago party. At seven years old, the little girl was far from an accomplished knitter and so her mother made the socks for her. Mrs. Anderson later revealed that one of the first things she found 19 year’s later as Peyton Anderson’s bride was that pair of socks, tucked away in a bureau drawer.
Two years before the party where she drew her future husband’s name from the hat, little Louemma’s school days began with a two and a half mile walk to Mr. Tom Holtzman’s private school. The schoolmaster was a strict
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