Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1875-03-26
CENTENARIANS.

The approaching Centennial OF our
National Independence appears to
have brought to light q large num-
Der of persons who were living at the
time of its declaration. We do not re-
member to have seen at any former
period the announcement Of so many
deaths at tho advanced age of lOC
years, or Of SO many living ones who
have completed century. The fol-
lowing, says the N. Y. Observer, have
been mentioned in the papers within
the last two or three weeks, and per-
haps many more that we have not
happened to notice:
Baltimore, March 3, 1S75.--Mary Smith
died at the Home Of the Little Sisters O.
the Poor, q Catholic benevolent institution
in this city, on Wednesday last, aged III
She was borne in Baltimore county in 1853
Mrs. Susan Carr (colored,) died in this
city on Friday evening, aged 105 years
Lucy Hawkins, colored, died in Wash
ington, February %, (Washington's birth
day. at the advanced age of l 10 years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Etheridge, the mother o
Emerson Etheridge, of Tennessee, has JUS
died at the age of 1903.
Mrs. Mary White, of Braintrcc, ccle
bratcd her Tooth birthday, last week, tiv'
generations sitting down together at tea.
Mrs. Anna Goss, Of Amherst, N. FL, eel
ebratcd her 105th birthday last week, ont
of her guests being Parson G. Cheney, o
Manchester, the Republican candidate TO-
Governor, who is II relative of hers
Mrs. Lucinda Parker, of North Reading
Mass, will be 100 years Of age next Octo
Der. Save little deafness, she has full us'
Of her faculties
Alexandria Bonner is still living a
Bakersfield, VT, at the age of 105, and il
still quite active. BENZ amin Upton Of thu
same place, is 100 years old this month
A recent local election at Greenbush, N
Y, was attendcdcd by an clcctor by thu
name Of Whalan, who is more than 10
years ofage.
We happened, recently, in connecto,
with this subject, to turn to Aliens Amcri
can Biographical Dictionary, and wer'
surprised to find such 4 list Of persons il
this country who had attained and sue
cecdcd the age of 100 years. 1t gives thu
names Of more than two hundred. Adam
Eve died in Pennsylvania, at the age of l04
Abraham Bogart died in Tennessee, in 1888
at the age of llS Francis Ange died il
PENNSYLVANIA, in 1867, at the age Of 134
Matthias Bailey died in North Carolina, i,
1889, at the age of 1856. lie was baptizc,
when r.. years DID, His eycsisht wa
! good, and his strength remarkable until til,
time of his death. Mary Davic died a
Newton, Mass, in l752, aged 1l6, He
portrait is III the Museum Of the Historical
Society.
Philip Crull, a native Of Germany, die,
on his farm at Fairfax county, Va, in 1913
at the age of 10, He was active until tn,
day Of his death. His wife died at the az,
of 10i. John Collamorc anative of Ireland
died at kensington, n. H., 1925, at the ag'
of 10. His hair which had been silverN
white became jet black before his death
Thomas Carrier native of England, oieo
in 1875, at Colchester, Conn, at the age o
100. He married Martha Allen, q victim
to the Salem witchcraft, in 1904, her owl
daughter, aged seven, being allowed to ties
tity against her that she was witch, anC
took the form of a black cat, saying she wa
her mother. Mr.. Carriers head was no
bald nor his HAIR gray in his last years
He travelled on foot six miles a few day.
before his death to see sick man, and TIT
very day before he died, visited his neigh
bors,