Lynn Anderson, 80, Dies After Spending 76 Years in Monroe Almshouse, December 1920

There died at the county home a few days ago a woman remarkable in one respect and that is that she in all probability held the world record as to successive days spent in an almshouse. Her name is Lynn Anderson and she was about 80 years old and about 76 of these years had been spent in the Union county home for the aged and infirm. When the county home, the poor house as it was then called, was established three miles east of town about 76 years ago, Lynn Anderson, her mother and her sister were its first inmates. From that day to the day of Lynn’s death she never spent a day away from the county home and there was not a single night she did not spend under its roof. She moved twice during those long years, the site of the county home being changed that many times. Lynn Anderson was weak in mind but physically strong and she had just enough sense to do the hardest kind of drugery and in the days of her strength she did that willingly. If all the water that Lynn Anderson drew from a deep well out at the county home could be turned into a stream it would be large enough to float a gunboat and if all the wood she carried in her arms from the wood pile to the fireplace could be put in one pile it would be as high as the court house. Poor Lynn, she is better off. (From the Monroe Enquirer as reprinted in the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Dec. 30, 1920)