Sarah Park
Wife of Alsa Moore

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 Maysville, Ga., January 29--In Mrs. Alsa Moore, Maysville probably has the oldest member of the Methodist church in Georgia, figuring on the number of years she has actually been a member of the church.
Mrs. Moore was born in 1820, and joined the Methodist church when she was six years old, at Antioch church, Jackson county, Georgia, nine miles from Athens, where her father, Mr. John Park, lived. She is 89 years old now, has been a member of the Methodist church 83 years, and has been reading the Christian Advocate since a child. She cannot read now, on account of her eyes, but it is read to her every week.
She is a sister of Captain R. E. Park, former state treasurer who died last year. She married Mr. Alsa Moore of Athens in 1839, lived in Clarke county a few years, but moved back to Jackson county to the John W. Glenn place near Jefferson, now owned by the mother of Hon. John Holder, of Jackson county.
Six years ago Mrs. Moore fell and broke her hip and has since been confined to her room. She stays bright and cheerful, however, and her mind is as clear as one could expect of one of her age.--Atlanta Constitution, reprinted in The Jackson Herald on 3 Feb 1910.

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