Middletown transcript., 1869-10-30
OLD FOLKS.

AT Turif, Scotland, December 20, 1868,
John Gibson died at the age of one hun
dred and seven years. He was native
of Baltimore, Nd. passed through the
War of Independence, and settled in Scot
land in 1912.
At Garvock, Scotland, December 25,
1868, Rev. John Charles died, aged one
hundred years. He was the Oldest min
lister in Scotland.
Moraley Clark, borne in June, 1747,
died in Richmond Va. December 28,
1861, aged one hundred and twcnty-one
years and six months. lie was a wagon
driver during the Rev olutionary war.
Louis La Bonte died in Fairmount,
Minnesota, on December 24, 1868, aged
one hundred and four years. His wife,
ninety y-nine years cid, survives him.
John Bradley died in Pavilion, Gen
esee county, N. Y. December %, 1868,
age one hundred years and three months.
He voted for Washington each term.
At Pucbla, Mexico, November 2, 1868,
woman died aged one hundred and fifty
years.
On Sunday, February 5, 1869, wo-
man named Paterson died at the Arden
tallen, aged one hundred years, she hav-
ing been born in the year 1863.
Henry Raizor died in Rowan, Ky. Feb
ruary II, 1869, aged one hundred and
eight years
An old Indian woman died at st. Louis
on February 20, 1869, at the age of one
hundred and three years.
AT Ballybrood, county Limerick, Ire
land, Joanna Keogh died March 3, 1869,
aged one hundred and four years. She
was the mother of fourteen children, the
grandmother of ninety six, and the great
grandmother of siXty-eight.
A woman named Isabella Stevenson
died in Glasgow, Scotland, March 3,
1869, aged one hundred and two years
and eight months.
Mrs. jeremiah Ladd died in Connec-
ticut at East Lime, March 10, 1863,
aged one hundred and eight years and
nine months.
A man one hundred and four years of
age died at the Thomaston workhouse
Qreland) March 5, 1869. He was one of
the "'9S rebels" and somebody dctermi-
ned that " one so worthy of honor should
never fill a pauper's grave" Accordingly
(says an Irish paper,) at noon ON Thurs
day, about four hundred people proceeded
to the workhouse, accompanied by splen-
did hearse drawn by two black horses, to
convey the remains of "'9S rebel" to
their last resting-place The hearse was
decorated in front by branches of laurel
and evergreens, and was followed by the
coffin, borne upon the shoulders of four
men, covered with beautiful pail and
surrounded by wreaths of laurel end ey-
ergreens.
Captain Moses Libby, of Scarborough,
Me. died March II, 1869, aged one hun
dred years.
A colored woman died in Chicago,
March 1S, 1869, aged one hundred and
twenty years. And what is remarkable,
she had never been 81 nurse of WASH
ington."
There are now living in Upton county,
Ga. an old couple, man and wife, whose
united ages are two hundred and three,
the man being one hundred and one, and
the woman one hundred and two years old
There is man named Sealiy in Indi-
ana who is one hundred and five years old
A Frenchman named Lalumier died at
Plattsburg, New York, March %, 1869,
aged one hundred and six years.
At Roxburgshire, Scotland, on the Goth
of March, 1869, Caroline Wilson died,
aged one hundred aud four years.
Aaron Quackenbush, a colored man,
died in the Almshouse in Sharon, on the
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