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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctors across the nation last week were discussing the almost incredible case of Mrs. Fred J. Turley of Helena, Ark. At 59, Mrs. Turley had given birth to a healthy (5 lbs. 14 oz.) baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother of 59 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Last July Mrs. Turley began feeling "queer." In October she consulted Dr. William Ellis Jr. At first he thought she had a tumor, but in December he heard the fetal heart beat and knew that she was pregnant. The baby was born prematurely a fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother of 59 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Turley was no Sarah,* but there are few cases on record of childbearing at 59. In the 18th Century, Lucas Debes wrote of a Scandinavian woman who supposedly became pregnant at 103. Pliny reported that Cornelia of the family of Serpius bore a son at 60. Probably the oldest case known to scientific record, reported in 1882, is a Scottish woman who gave birth to her 22nd child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother of 59 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

JUANITA STAFF TURLEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Murderer Orville Turley, 54, a paretic, and Kidnaper Richard Heilman, 24, were trapped in a trailer. "Come on in and get us," snarled Turley. A blast of shots killed him, wounded Heilman. Killer A. B. Tolley, 21, was shot and captured after a wild exchange of gunfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Trouble in Little Siberia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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