Elizabeth Holbrook was believed to have been the oldest woman in Virginia and perhaps the entire United States

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Elizabeth Holbrook’s husband, James ‘Jim’ W. Holbrook, who served in the Civil War, is pictured above. A copy of the photo was found in  a copy of the Appalachian Quarterly published by Wise County Historical Society and also on Ancestry.com.


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