Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-01-20
CENrENARIANs WHO DIED IN is7l

The following list Is compiled by the BOS-
ton 1rGUeIter. In reading 1t it Is well to
bear in mind that no proofless positive than
a birth registry ought to be accepted as
conclusive of the validity of claim of a
century fife:
THE CENTENARIANs
Who have died in America in 1871 form a
respectable roll, and their "united ages"
make formidable figure, that would take
us back to the days that were before the
building of Noaf's ark, if not to creations
morn. First in order come
OLD LADIES,
tough DANES, upon whom the winds of
more than century had blown harmlessly:
Mrs. Susan Rush, of Allegheny county Va,
III, leaving an orphan daughter of 98; Dom
ma JOsepha Pacheeo, AreqUipa, Peru, 1T;
Mrs. Lydia Mead, North Br0okfeld, Mass,
lO2 years and 3 months; Mrs. Almira Stack
house, Altoona, Pa, died on the very day
she completed her Tooth year; Mrs. McCdr
(native of England), Randolph Mass, 1O3;
Mrs. = Reading, Chicago, 103; Barbara
Ann Kaulback, BlInenburg, n. S., O3;
Mrs. Josiah Hadley, Sterling, Mass Tin
a poor house) FOO; Mrs. judy
Colyin, Danilsonville, Conn, 106 ;
Mrs. Mehitable Pitcher, Sufheld, Conn,
102; Mrs. Julia Cantz, OswegC, n. Y, 105;
Mrs. - Wash, Chicago, 102; Mrs. Ellen
Keeley, Qrish), Salem, Mass, 109 years, Z
months and days; Mary Ernest, in Michi-
gan, 100; Mrs. - Finey, Jersey City, 102;
Mrs. Elizabeth Grey, Salem, Mass, 100
years and month-descendsd from Gov.
Endicott, who came over to Massaehu-
sets before John Winthrop; Mrs. Re-
lief G. Horton, Portland, Me-, in her
Tooth year; Mrs. Lydia Shanklin, In
North Carolina, 113; Mother Rodd Qndian
wOman), near Port Hudson, Michigan, lO6;
Mrs. Polly Mcintyre, in Iowa, l15--died
from burns; Mrs. Jane Carr, SearspOrt,
Me-, 104-bOrn in Londonderry, and came
to America at 10; Abigail Wilson, Derry,
N. H., 104 years and months Mary Jack
son, Dayton, Ohio, 119; Molly Nep-
tune (Passamaquoddy Indian), Peas
ant Point, Maine, 112; Mrs. Catherine
Hafferty, South Boston, 101; Mrs.
Betsy Robinson, Lebanon, Conn.,, 102;
Josephine Pequard, Fort AbercroIubie, Min
nesota, (half breed) 104-died from eating
potatoes and fapjacks too fast after having
tasted two days; Mrs. Susannah WinslOw,
Canton, Me-, 104 years and months, and
Mrs. Anna Place, Portland, Me-, 102 years
and % days. The number of
OLD MEN
in the dead list is not so great as the num-
Der of old women, being exactly as it is in
the long list of the living. Of such men we
find in our notes the names of Harry For
tune (colOred), at Morris, Otsego county,
New York, 120, called sold Harry" and
who, strange to say, had not been a servant
Of Gen. Washington, but had held the
Generals horse, and he was the
only man iu his town who was
made a voter by the adoption of the 18th
amendment to the Constitution; Edward
Brethham, Chester, Mo-, 103 years old and
months, whose funeral sermon was preached
by Elder GowenS of Enfield, whose age is
90; John Shipman, Springfield, Vt, over
100; Jacob Journals, in Missouri, 134, Ca
madam VOyageur; Stephen Leonard, Irish,
Springfield, 105R John Bader, (cOlOred,) }
Cornwall, Ontario, G. D., 105, British vol
unleer in the war Of the American ReyOlu-
ton; ThOs. Agnew, Dover, New Hamp-
shire, 101 years, l month and p days;
Ebenezer Low, NIarshlield, l02 years;
Henry Van Meter, (colOred,) Bangor,
Me-, 10 years; Henry Brangan, Brooklyn,
n. Y, 105; Solomon Seagraves, Chalm-
ers county, Ala, 1O7, leaving a widow,
aged 100; Silas Braman, RehObOth, Mass,
101 years and S months, john Fay, the
oldest resident of Dover, n. H., lO3; Chas.
Brewster, (colOred,) New Haven, Con-,
100, a retired sexton, and Gilbert MOrans,
TrescOtt, Me-, 106 years and months. We
have seen mentioned the deaths of num-
ber Of persons over a century in each in
stance, in which no names were given.
Five such cases were spoken of as having oc-
cured III Philadelphia some months
ago. In Kentucky man aged one hun
dred and six killed himself In Dinwid-
die county, Va, a woman drowned her
self at the age of 10, exactly the same age
at which the "Old Countess of Desmond"
died, according to 4 pOetiCal version Of the
cause of her death, by fall from a cherry
tree; but Lady Desmond really lived to the
age of 14O years O464-16O4.) The world
doesn't grow such old girls now as it used
to grow in the Old times-which were
younger than these times. Of
FOREIGN CENTENARIANS
we have but a very m6agre collection, per-
haps because Of our careleSsness in not
noting the deaths Of old men and women
in the old world All we can mention are
these: Madame la Duchesse du Plessis
d'Aremey, in her Tooth year; a Polish Jew,
at Warsaw, 109; John Jenkins, Hereford
shire, Eng, 10T; Robert Brewer, POrtsen,
Eng, 100-who was wounded in the naval
action which is known as the battle of the
First of June Q794), in which Admiral
Lord Howe defeated Admiral Villaret
Joyense-the first great sea fight of the
wars of the French Revolution; Los
ser ChamauOwer, in PruSsian Poland, 1I9,
leaving a discOnsOla.e brother aged 100;
SignOr TagliOni, father of the TagliOni, 1O2;
a Polish Jew, in Prussian Poland, 100, who
left one brother aged 10S, and another 107,
years running i'll the family; and the last
survivor of the soldiers of Frederick the
Great, who died in East Prussia, aged 130,
leaving an orphan son aged 100. If this
veteran really was of the age mentioned, he
may have remembered the closing years of
the first wars of FredeTick-and the entire
military history Of Prussia from the time of
that monarch to that of Emperor William |.
took place In the course of one life, which
it is hard to believe could have been the
fact, though the thing is not absolutely i'm
possible.
A WORLD OF RAILROADS.