Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-11-25
REAL ANTEDLUVIANs
The Onandaga Giant NOwhcre--a
Man One Hundred and Sixty ana
n Woman One Hundred and Seven
Years Old.
From the Franklin n. ~ Union.

Years Old.
| From the Franklin (N. H. Unsoa.
There is man living in the town or
| Ossipee, New Hampshire, named Joshus
| Hammock, who is, according 10 the best
| information, 100 years of age He is ex
tremely imbecile, and takes the simplest
kind of food. He moved to Ossipee from
the State of Maine some thirty years ago
He is a native of Scotland, where he lived
until he was about 40 years of age. He
married and lost his wife in his native
country. He had one daughter, who
came TO this country, and with whom and
her descendants he has resided ever
since. The family who have the care
of him are now middle-aged people,
and are his descendants in the fifth
generation. He served in the old French
war was with Rogers in his campaign
up about Lakes George and Champlaln.
and on his return recOllects seeing Gov.
Shirley and his Secretary, VIM. Alexan-
der, near Albany. He was also out in the
revolutionary war, and his reCOlectiOns
are quite distinct as far back as that. he
speaks of Col. Aaron Burr as being
young, smart officer about New York
also of seeing Washington and Lafayette,
and especially recOllects Col Alexander
Hamilton as one of WashingtOn's aids,
and that he used occasionally to bring or
ders to the officers in command. He has
used tobacco from his youth, and has
probably chewed and smoked more than
a ton in his lifetime He saws he thinks
it has hurt him, and that its use viii
shOrfan his life many Years
From the Wilmington Dell Commercial.
Here and there lives an old veteran who
has passed an OctOgenarian AGE and claims
to be as old as our nations birthday, but
none are so old as she who is the subject
of this article, and who lives, hearty and
well, in Delaware City, in the State of
Delaware
Hannah FennimOre was born on the
1lth day OF December, at Amsterdam,
Germany, in the year of our Lord 1851,
and viii on the 18th day Of next Decem-
Der be lO8 years old. She removed 10
this country in the 8th year of her age,
and has consequently been in the country
of her adoption 100 years, arriving here
seven years before the Declaration - Faz
dependence, and INFLAMMATION of liberty
unUrougnOuT the land, and to all the in
habitants thereof, she, in the maiden
blush of Sweet sixteen, was living at
the mouth of AIantua creek, in New JeT-
sey, where she was soon afterwards
wOOed and won by Matthew Bigger, a
young revolutionary soldier, whom she
married when she was tWenty-One years
of age, and by whom she had eleven chill
dren, the youngest of whom is now fifty
five years old, and the oldest, If now Hy-
ing, would be eighty-fve.
Her husband dying when her youngest
child was an infant, she remained wild
ow short time, and married a man BY
the name of Fennimore, with whom she
lived until his death, which occurred in
1916, since which she has lived with her
son before mentioned.
Like most old people, she yecollects
events that tEanspired eighty or ninety
years ago more distinctly than events Of
more recent date She distinctly recOl-
leets the frequent visits Of Gen. " sshing-
ton To the house where she lived, and his
often dining there, and until recently she
Tecollected all the principal events of the
American Revolution. On Wednesday Of
last NetA sLt tllppcN Al9llt HfCty No"A
the main street of Delaware City TO
daguerreotype gallery and had her like
ness taken. From present appearances
she bids to live for a number of years
vet.
This remarkable old lady is indeed a
connecting link with a past age Only
twenty-nine years younger than Gen.
Washington, fourteen years Old when the
battle of Lexington took place, anc
twenty-one years old al the close OF the
Revolution.