The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-08-05
DeatI,-oT Mr.. George Castator.


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Death-eT Mr.. George CastatOr.
This man, SO long known to the
people of Hagerstown and Wayne
county, died at the residence Of his
son, Mr.. Elijah Castator, at the
advanced age of one hundred and
nine years, eleven months and
twenty three days! i ii
He was born in Lebanon county.
Pennsylvania, August 81, 1764, and
died July 25th, 1874 "a ID
$ Seldom do we have to record the.
age of the departed above three
score and ten; LESS frequently do
Sthe days of the years of life reach
four score and ten; and SO seldom
do men witness the. one hundredth
return of their birthday anniversary
that centenarians are reconed wor
thy of special record, and are set
down in the list of men of remark.
able longevity. But Mr.. Castator
lived beyond this age, and almost
completed his one hundred and
tenth year. We can. scarcely com
prehend the length of this remark
able life, nor the important events G
in the governmental. social and re-
| ligious worlds which it ant6dates,
without brief collation. of facts
occurring since. .~kzx -.y---~ 4.
II Eoor,ra o. 4lxcr,H.AA,,
gust I'd, 1764 At that time the
Colonies had population, Of
scarcely two millions; now the
States have population Of forty
millions. or twenty times as great
Then Boston and Philadelphia
contained each about twenty thou
sand people. and New York third
less. Now these three cities have
an aggregate population of two
millions, or as great as the aggre-
gate of all the colonies then.
There were two cities then that had
q population of 10000 and upwards:
now there are seventy Then the
: red man held undisturbed posses.
sion Of the, country west Of the al
| lesslieny Mountain now atcely u
1 sestaee of them remains. iIfe was
horn at, OF near, the time the dis
affection between the Colonies and
the mother country arose; was
seven months old when the odious
Stamp Act was passed; was old
enough to drink tea at the famous
Boston Tea Party; was ten years
; of age when the first Continental
Congress assembled in Philadel-
phia; nearly twelve years old when
the Declaration of Independence
, WAS declared; and was permitted,
at twenty-five years of age, to vote
for George Washington for Presi-
dent of the Udited States, the man
''First In war, first in peace, and
first m the hearts of his country
!, men"
During the one hundred and ten
years lie lived there was wondes,
y full change in the manner of travel
r and of transmitting news. He was
:, living to see the first stage coach
/ built, which inaugurated public
E travel; the first train of cars drawn
f by steam; the first steamboat; the
y first'wire stretched for the lightning
:, transmission of news He lived to
: see a people, under the healthIul
influences of free institutions, the
prosperity and perpetuity of which
were guaranteed by superior ed-
ucational advantages of free schools
4, and free churches, swinging off
u from the first settlements upon the
a atlantic coast, breaking up the ma
II tive wildness Of The American
It continent by the planting Of colo
IS MES here and there. among the
/ streams and by the lakes and gulf,
e and widening out until these set
! lements met, he saw the whole
r country East Of the Mississippi
redeemed to civilized man, and
eleven large populous States built
up in the then unexplored country
8 West of it. Born under the reign
o CT King George the Third, without
n alternating himself from the land Of
y, his nativity, he died during the
d peaceful administration of e. S
) Grant, the eighteenth President Of
is the United States.
N From thirteen weak independent
,e Colonies, he lived to see his country
a. become thirty seven rich and pow
!, erful States, and his people one Of
: the ruling nations of the. world
! Compared by the changes and
= development that marked each
Sc George Castator lived longerSthar
al Methusafeh. Truly he lived Longer
v in remarkable time, to an extreme
y, old age, AMI saw many of the mos
r. wonderful TRANSACTIONS. that hav.
or marked the history of man. IL
ty see the subjugation Of two third.
is of aSast continent, the birth mt
st growth to huge dimensions of til,
ne Republic of the World. has beer
a. the lot Of but few, and may b.
@ Witnessed by none hereafters
- The citizens of the town an6
IS vicinity .naet in the Presbyteria,
It, church at four O'clock of the da,
I'd named to pay their tribute of re
ut spect to this patriarch, and after
n discourse by Rev. f. 4. Fish, O
al the II E.. Church, took the las
ri look at '.the earthly. house of thi
m tabernacle" of one whose lot it ha,
been TO see his children's children
90 to the fourth generation grow Vi
~ to m1nhood and womanhood abou
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