Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1869-08-19

in 1T14. and remembered events that took
place in 172l
/ Of course whom We come to ages be.
tween 10 and 130, We must not expec.
/ the instances t. be very numerous but
/ let Us ] ). down few from vgr;ous author
tics The ase Of 10 has been claim d
/ for Ursula Chicken what a chicken , who
. lI.d n tho IL .'iernc~s IN 1922 William
Juz4,1 q t4lt fql oh servant Of the " b.
, SCR fami.y, At Battle Abbey, in Sussex.
who died in l19o, aud TO whom monu-
ment was erected in Battle churchvard
Mr. Charles Cottrell, who died in Phila-
! deIohia in l7G1, avi}g a wife (ag.i
iioJ, 10 whom he had been married ninety
eight vars and Duchess of Bucclough,
VINO (accordin4 TO a volume published by
the Rev John Dun, Of Auchinlech) had
lived twenty years a maiden, tftJ years
wif, aui fifty years a widow, an3 died
| in ISIS Duchro2Is Nu9u-ine3 spoke
. in ISL Of a Nr, Chrles Leyne, Who had
JUS died at the age Of III in the United
States, having lived there under four Brit
i,n -overeigus before the rupture IN l11+;
/ he It widow Ito years old. A hoary
headed negro, who was one of the Hons Il
NeH York, al the time Of the Iuternation-
a. Exhibition Of 1893 il that city, was
-aiI to he l;1t years old but we d. not
know whether this was one OF Mr. Bar
! mum wonders The Bodlein Library
contains 4 newsletter Of June |, 1924
in whi:h is paragraph to the effect, that,
as the court,ers, were going to St. james
to be presented to George l., they We're
attracted by a venerable woman, who
stated horsclf to be III years old she
had kept 4 ,hop at keu.Ial during the Civ
il Wars i'll the days vi Charles l., aud was
the mother Of nine children at the time
the unfortunate monarch was ex .cuted
1619) Auepituph in All ) ints' Cuutcu,
Northampton, celebrates the name Of a
person VINO died III VOC, at the age OF
10 y History Of Virginia, witch
g,vgs . tough list |of very aged persons ia
I that STATE, includes The nam- Of w ~ Ter
Booker, a slave wine received the first Of
these t-o uams S because he WIS wonicr;
tie worked III his master garden til II
years d and died IN 1919 at the are OF
10, h4yAg been born IN the reign Of
ga "a Elizabeth. Owen Tudor, who
b,usted Of being descended from Henry
VII, died at Liargoiicn, Ill, at the
age OF III Tnis VS. also recorded as
The age ot joan y well, who died al Mi
ctIIles own, IN l1Ol ; be claimed u be
tie graaus ~ ot ,ue ceteurL eu ol Parr
CT weon. wc >Hall speak prrS-ltly.) The
q aaeoeH'S -Ntya-in- in l772, recorded
tu9 0eat. 0. Mr. AUraham otrottmau. at
the age yt lbs Loud N claimed TO have
a. luAaoItau. OF tue same are Iu 1124
III the person of Mrs. Jaue Skirmshaw
Another decade, embracing ages be-
tween $50 and 10, is not witlont It's re-
cord in the pages Of county histories and
antiquarian publications., William B at
ty, llier who had fought at .ae But
tie Of the B5yue, III 1890, died II i11f,
At the az of 13o, Peter Garden figures
in an engraving. contained in the Perth
" ~eum = having died in t1715, at the
az e ,3t Mrs Keith, Who died at
Newho,n. in La, at tl.e age Of I|3, left
behuId her three dapGhtcr3. She ot whom
WA, flir dam,cI If 100. Louis Mutel,
a free negro in St. Lucia, was reputed to
be l35 years old when he died IN 1S5l !;
although he married 80 late III life as -,
he slryivcd that event eighty years
N'i ej}3u's JplTn1l mentions one Henry
Francisco in more cirtumstantial mau
nrr than is usual in this class of records.
he vas born IN 1856, lett France IN
1921, witnessed the coronation Of Queen
Anne in 1702, fought under Marlbo-
roaEh. then went to America, was wound
Ell and taken prisoner daring the Am'rI-
can war, aud was living near Albany in
le--2. at the age OF l3G The venerable
axe y, Us IS pu. down fer one Joan
M'poua-h, who died at Ennis, in Ireland,
IN l76>.
We may well suppose th2, lives Of sew
en- orc must be few and far between,
eye- when rrciuiIty comes to our aid
\ parish rosistor At Evetou, Bejfori
Shire. mentions the Rev Thomas Rud
Yarl, vicar Of that parish, as having t!ed
at the a-e If 10 during the reign o..
Charles H. \ negro named Easter, IS
-; down as having attained i like age IN
1897 But tie mos, famous instance WAS
tha, of the Countess Of DtsmoaI-a sub
sect Of muh h and eager controversy -
Whether such 4 person ever lived at all.
als whether if Sb2 lived, there is really
trustworthy evidence Of her age. are qaf>-
ti,,- which have been treated N ful iu