Description
"Aunt Riney Dead - Negro of Slave Days about 107 Years Old" Aunt Riney, as Mrs. Riney Cox was known, was born in Kentucky along about 1819, as nearly as figures can be obtained. While Aunt Riney herself was never sure about it, Mr. George Wells who frequently visited here and who now lives in California, associates her age with his father’s, in that his father always said she was a year younger than he was. Aunt Riney was given as a wedding present to Mr. Henry Wells and his bride (nee' Mary A. Richardson) by a wealthy slave owner of Kentucky. She was brought by them to Platte County in 1840 when about 21 years old. She was a very faithful and affectionate mammy and had many friends everywhere she lived. She has been crippled for years with rheumatism, but her “white folks” friends as she lovingly called them, remembered her well. She died at the home of her daughter Sunday night and was buried Wednesday afternoon.Date(s) of Creation
10/1/1926
