Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-20
DEATH OF THE OLDEST INHABI-
TANT.

\ writer in the Macon journal and Mes
senger, gives an interesting account ola noted
character recently deceased near that place:
An old colored woman, called Old Aunt
Biddy Dundy, and well known to many as
unquestionaby the oldest inhabitant of this
section, died lately, near Macon, at the adj
yanced age Of one hundred and twelve years.
She was of mixed Indian and negro decent,
and was n native of Dinwiddie county Va.
To use her own exultant language when
asked of her nativity and born in
old Virginny, Dinwiddie county, close TO
Petersburg town." She had belonged in the
same family for more than three generations,
and being a sort of heir loom, her age was
authenticated. She was distinguished as a
thorough going and energetic worker in
early life, and in old age as an unusually
intelligent and faithful nurse. Upwards of
fifty wears AGO as commander-in-chiefO of the
plantation drop shot gang, she received the
appellation of "Old Thunderer," from her
loud toned and spirited order to the squad
in charge, which was ever afterwards one of
her SYNONYMS. She cherished to the last
an ardent attachment for the noble old
commonwealth in which she was born, and
seemed greatly to regret the ruin and desc
lation caused by the late war.
Possessing an unusually retentive memory
as to the scenes and events of her early life,
she sometimes referred to Corvallis famous
march through portion of Virginia, and
wondered ifthe people there were in as much
trouble during some of the late raids as they
were in the old Revolution. With much
emphasis she declared that "the good-lor-
nothing Quakers with their thee and thou
were the instigators Of this war" She re-
membered when they first began to make
a fuss about the negroes. The reader OF
American History need not be told that
Broad Brim took the initiatory steps in this
country as TO petitioning on that subject
She was able TO describe and call by name
several famous horses that figured on the
turf of old Nirginny, upwards of eighty
years ago, having seen them while acting IN
the capacity of cook at the race course, and
her statements correspond with entries in the
Turf Register. As 10 her temperament and
habits, she was usually cheerful, and during
Christmas times and other holiday occasions,
"under the old dispensation," was remarka-
bly, lively. She was an inveterate tobacco
smoker, and up to the hard times of the late
war, for a long space of time, "as far back
as you can think" enjoyed her morning
and evening cup of coffee regularly. When
unwell dieting and warm teas were her only
remedies. "Calomy" was her abomination,
and having never taken a dose of doctors
physic" in her life, TO this and good reso-
luton" which kept her alive because she
would not die, she attributed her longevity.
But with characteristic good humor she
would sometimes to the queries of young
people who seemed to be seeking the secret
of her long life, jocularly answer, "she had
been ready and expecting to die for a long
while but reckoned the Lord had overlooked
her" A sudden and severe attack of pneu-
monia terminated the earthly existence of
this remarkable old parsonage.
FORMER MASTER.