The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-12-03
The olJcsf ON Record---Real An
sed.Iuvians.
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There i . man living IN he Town ol
ossipee, n. H., named Joshua Kan.
mock, whs is, according to tue best in.
fefmaiipm leo wears OF age. lie is ex-
tFenMly iJbecile ard takes the simplest
kind OF hod. lie moved 10 Ossipee
nom thelslate of Maine some thirty
years agof tie is q native OF Scotland,
where helived until he was about 40
ysers o. age. lie married and lest his
wife IA hAnaiiTe country. He had one
fau9hter,8 who came TO this country.
lend with Ahom aud her descendants he
| ltas reFitsl ever since. The family
whc have; be care Of him are now mid
dle-a4 cod 4 pie, ana are his descend.
ssay p tsTfXh generation. Aie served
an iaes0.ds 4Nnch war: WAS. With RQg.
ns& @as2fg Kln4paign up anuut i5ssaes
George ana Rhamplain. and 1u his re-
fiaEa ress.lActs seeiug Gov. shirley ana
BIS Secretary, Wm. AIexander, near AL
bany. lie was also cut in the reyou-
tonary war; aud his recolleetions are
quite distinct as far back as that. He
speaks OF Col. Aaron burr as being q
Young, smart officer about New York /:
also of seeing Washington and Lafav-
ette, aud especially recollec.s Colonel
Alexander Hamilton as one Of Wash
mgton's aids, and that he used occasion
ALLY to bring orders to the officers in
command. lie has used tobacco from
his youth, and has probably Y chewcd and
smoked more than a ION in his lifetime.
He says he thinks it has hurt him, and
that its Use will shorten his life many
years.
From the Wilmington, (Del.,) Commercial /
Here and there lives an old veteran
who has passed an octogenarian age
and claims TO be as old as cur nation s
birthday, but none are so old as she who
is the subject OF his article, and who
lives, hearty and well, in Delaware
City, in the State of Delaware.
Hannah Feuuimore was born on the
llth day OF December, at Amsterdam,
Germany, in the year of our Lord l7Gl.
and will on the llth day OF December
be los years Old. She removed TO this
country in The Sth year of her age, and
has consequently been in the country OF
her adoption LOO years, arriving here
seven years before the Declaration of
independence, and when the old bell
was sending forth the proclamation of
liberty throughout the land, and to all
the Inhabitants thereof, she, In the
maiden blush of "swect sixteen was
living at the mouth of Mantua creek, in
New Jersey, where she was soon after
wards wooed audsw by Matthew
Bigger, q young revoiutioDary soldier,
whom she married when she was TWEEN
ty-one years Of age, and by whom she
had eleven children, the youngest of
whom is now til'ty-iive wears old and
'bepldest, il aow living, would be .tgh-
IsIsec. H'-' b..
Her husbanddying when her ydtiilg-
est child was ala infant, she remained u
widow a"short time, and married man
by the name OF Fonnimore, with whom
she lived until his death, which occur
red in 1915, since which time she has
lived with her son before mentioned.
Like most old people, she recollects
events that transpired eighty or ninety
years ago more distinctly than events Of
a more recent date. She distinctly re-
collects the frequent visits of General
to the house where she
lived, and his often dining there. and
until recently remembered all The prin-
cipal events OF the American Revolu-
'ion On Wednesday OF last week she
ripped right lively down the main
street OF Delaware City to- a daguerreo-
.ype gallery aud had her likeness taken.
From present appearances she bids fair
10 live for number of years yet.
This remarkable old lady is indeed a
connecting link with past age Only
.wenty-nine years younger than Gener-
u Washington, fourteen years old dwhen
he battle OF Lexington took place, and
wcnty-one years old at the close of the