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Article: Centenarian is link to Clara Barton; Family home is filled with history.(NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- July 9, 2008
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Byline: Ellie Oleson
OXFORD - For one local centenarian, Clara Barton is not only the historical figure who changed the world as the "angel of the battlefield" and founder of the American Red Cross. She is also Great-great-aunt Clara.
May Olney White, the great-great-niece of Clara Barton, has only one enduring personal memory of her famous aunt.
"I was 4 years old in 1912, when my mother took me and my sister Helen to Aunt Clara's house on Charlton Street to help take care of her for the day. She was a very small woman in a great big bed in a very big house. She let us go up to the widow's walk and play. She was so glad we came," Mrs. White ...