Career
Her case was thoroughly investigated in the 1970s and re-investigated in 2005, and found to be fully verifiable. Born in Herkimer County, New York she went to school until she was 11 and then stayed at home to work, and also spent all her life there, except the last two months of it, within a radius of ten miles. Her father, William Ecker, lived to reach the age of 97 before he died, while her mother lived only to the age of 78.
Only two of them were living at the time of her death: Frank (72) and Alonzo (86).
