Old Mom Obituary Milwaukee Journal

Elephant Only ‘Spoke’ German When She Came to the U.S., But Leared Quickly

If you are not an avid news reader you may not know that Old Mom, an 80-odd-year-old former circus elephant, died  at her home in Nycak, N.Y. I do, for with her died a source of several books nd  hundred or more articles and fiction stories I had written about her, writes Courtney Ryley Cooper in the Baltimore Sun. Part of the story follows: