Middletown transcript., 1869-10-30

l9th OF March, 1869, aged one hundred
and six years. He was raised at Fishkill,
New York, and durng the Revolutionary
war was a servant of Colonel, afterwards
General Dubois.
Fletcher Miriam died at West6eld Mas
sachusetts, on the Sth of March, 1869, at
the age of one hundred and three years.
A woman aged one hundred and two
years was " converted" at a revival meet
ing in Iowa March 20, 1869.
49, The oldest man in the world" diod in
Poland, March so, 1869. He had Just
entered his one hundred and thiriy-ninth
year. lie Steele" says that at the age
of eighty his hair was quite white, and
afterwards became of brown shade.
A woman named Betsy Robertson died
at Kennothmonth, Scotland, April Sth,
1869, aged one hundred years
A woman named Mrs. Barbara Guild
died at Cumbernauld, Scotland, April 3,
1869, at the age Of one hundred and one
years.
Daniel Frederick Beakman, " the last
survivor of the Revolution" q died at
Sandusky, Cattaraugus county, New York,
April 5, 1869, at the green old age of
one hundred and eight years.
A widow named Rachel Jones, aged
one hundred and eight years, died on
Sunday, June 23, 1869, at the Bristol
InGrmary, Somcrsetshire, England.
On Friday, May 20, 1869, Mrs. Char
lotte Guthrie died at the East Mains of
Nannadice, Farfarshire, Scotland, aged
one hundred and five years.
Count de Waldeck, of Paris, although
one hundred and three years of age, has
sent to the Paris fine arts exhibition,
which will soon open, a picture represen-
ting not fewer than two-hundred and fifty
five persons. The veteran artist enjoys
excellent health, and takes strong walk
ing exercise every day. He is married to
an English lady of forty, and has a son
aged eighteen years.
a Tennessee widow of one hundred
and fourteen years boasts of four hundred
descendants, and rides on horseback.
One of the monks at the celebrated
Convent of Einsiedein is one hundred
years old. He is in full possession of his
mental faculties, and retains wonderful
memory, for which he has always been
noted.
The family of Joel Parker, of North
field, Vermont, is remarkable for longev-
ity. He was born April -, 1880, and
his wife January 6, 1770. They have
five children, whose ages are sixty-eight,
sixty-six, sixty-three, sixty-two and fifty
six, respectively. The aggregate age of
all the family living is more than five
hundred years. 1t will be seen that the
father is in his nineteth and the mother
in her one hundredth year.
A Mrs Park celebrated her one hundred
and fifth birthday, few weeks ago, in
Cleveland, Ohio. She has raised seven
teen children. The last was born when
she was sixty-fve years old. and she now
enjoys good health, has good teeth, i'm
proved sight, and her hair is turning
black. Aud what is remarkable, she has
an internal cancer of fifty years standing.
But this does not prove that cancers are
favorable to longevity.
Fourteen old girls" assembled at
party at Saxton's river, Mass. recently
found that their united ages was one thou
sand and forty-three. The oldest, who
was ninety-one, on being invited to ride
home in the evening after the party, re-
sonted the imputation, and answered test
lily that " she'd rather walk"
Harvard, Mass wants to rival Bar
nard, Vt. town where nobody dies, 1t
reports twelve smart healthy widows,
whose ages sum up ten hundred and
thirty-two years, one of them being one
hundred and two years old, and they are
but a small section of the fourteen hun
dred inhabitants
There is an old couple living at Tiver-
ton, r. I.-Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith,
aged each ninety-three ycars-who were
married at the age of eighteen, and con-
sequently have lived in the bonds of mat
rimony for the long period of seventy-6ve
years, and during that time have enjoyed
life amicably am instance of very rare
occurrence. We are happy to understand
that they are both in the enjoyment Of
excellent health, and able to attend to
their respective duties in gaining
livelihood. They are a long-liyed race,
three sisters still living, quite aged, one
of whom is within two years of being a
ccntenurian, being ninety-eight years old.
She has another eighty y-four, and one
eighty years old.
A native of the Emerald Isle, named
Patrick Shannon, who was born in the
year 1749, is now living in Texas, making
him at the present time one hundred and
twenty years old. His hair and beard are
as white as cotton, both of which he
wears very long, which gives him grave
appearance. Col. Mosely says: " He is
man Of fine appearance, quite intelligent
and very ourteous--indeed, the fine old
Irish gentleman" -.Aaa a
A cold climate seems to be favorable to
long life. According to Russian jour-
nal, the deaths during 1868 at Irkootsll,
Siberia, included six persons over one
hundred and ten years of age. Two had
reached their one hundred and twenty
sixth wear, aud one died at the age of one