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By Patrick Alther Special to the Rappahannock News
Ethel Tyner, whose life spanned three centuries, passed away at age 106 on April 25 in Fluvanna County. She was someone I knew while growing up in Rappahannock County, where we were both natives, even though over 50 years separated our births.
This was a person born before the Spanish-American War, at a time when surviving Civil War veterans were numerous, who lived to see the beginning of the War on Terrorism. She was someone whose life spanned 20 presidencies, who grew up in the horse and buggy era and saw the Space Age and the Internet arrive, who lived from the Gilded Age to the Age of Globalism.
Ethel Tyner grew up in the Old Hollow area near Sperryville, during a time when rural isolation meant exactly that. She came along in a time of no automobiles, no telephones, no radio or television. Unlike some other rural communities, no railroad passed through Rappahannock. It w as a time of wrood heat, outdoor plumbing, raising most of one’s food, making one’s own soap, and living with very little cash money.
For example, surplus chickens or eggs could be bartered at the local grocery store (no supermarkets back then) for items such as coffee,' sugar, or cloth, things one had to purchase. It was a time when going into one of the larger towns, Washington or Sperryville, was a special occasion for country folk. Life centered around one’s own family and kin, and the few neighbors within walking distance.
Social life usually consisted of home visits between
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