Deuers, "Aunt Lizzie"
Sapulpa, Oklahoma
"Aunt Lizzie" Deuers, 115, who once said she was too tough to die because "I'm cheorkee, Irish and Dutch and that's the meanest mixture there is." was found dead today in the little home where she lived alone.  She celebrated her 115th birthday in May.  In March, earlier in the year, she took an airplane ride.  "Aunt Lizzie", in her youth, walked with the Cherokee from Georgia over the "Trail of Tears", went through Indian Territory before the turn of the century, selling Pioneer Medicine and ran a 160 acre farm singlehanded.  Two years ago a car knocked her down and cracked several bones.  Her doctor looked her over and warned her she'd never live to see another birthday (113).  It was then she said she was too tough to die.  "I've had 9 husbands, been snake bit 6 times, and bit by a mad dog once, and that didn't kill me, so I guess I'll live through this, too".  Only recently she returned from a Tulsa hospital where she was taken after a cow kicked her.  "Aunt Lizzie" didn't believe in divorce.  She outlived all nine husbands.  "Aunt Lizzie" attributed her long life to "minding my own business, and having plenty of business to mind".