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This very modest lady is the daughter and oldest child of Clarissa and Whitten S. Lankford, and was born at Terra Haute, Indiana, on the 4th day of January, 1859.

When she was fourteen years old, attending Wilberforce University, her mother died, leaving the care of



a father and five children to Susie, as housekeeper. However, her father soon married, and she went as teacher to Rockville, Ind., where she labored with encouraging success for two years, and thence to Richmond, Ind., where she taught another year with satisfaction, as is evidenced by the fact that at this place she was married.