The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02
CENTENARIANS In AMERICA.

CENTENARIANS In AMERICA.
Men and Women Who Have Lived One
Hundred Years.
From the New York Graphic.l
OF the years centennial birthday Gel
ebrations perhaps the most notable was
that of Mrs. Hannah Cox at Holder
ness, N. H. Born at Preston, Ct, June
&c, 1776, her parents removed in 1875
to Fairlee, VT, and soon after to Holder
ness, where she married in 1898 Rob-
ert Cox, who died in 1922. Russell
Cox, aged seventy-seven, and Mrs.
Colley, both of Holderness, are the sole
survivors of her seven children. Her
father, Isaac w. Stanton, was captain
of a company of Connecticut volunteers
in the War of Independence. Com
memorative exercises were held in the
afternoon in the old Episcopal Church,
and afterwards large company assem-
bled at the Cox homestead, where the
centenarian received her guests in the
best of health and spirits.
Mrs. Mary Hollis White, widow of
Nathaniel White, of Weymouth, Mass. {,
with her many relatives and descend
ants, celebrated the one hundredth an
niversary of her birth February 25, at
the residence of Mr.. White, of Brain
tree. She is the third of nine children
of Captain Thomas Hollis, who served
with his three brothers in the War of
Independence, and her descendants
number six children, twenty-six
grandchildren, thirty-seven great
grandchildren, and fifteen great-great-
grandchildren. Her two surviving
daughters are the wives of General
Nathan Heard and Mr.. George M. Rice,
of Worcester; and George White,
Judge of Probate of Norfolk County,
is one of her grandsons. She was per-
sonally acquainted with John Adams
and with John Quincy Adams, and the
principal events of the nations history
are vivid in her mind. She is still pos
sessed of her faculties, is able to do
sewing, and has not been i'll for more
than fifty years.
Mrs. Martha F. Morey, of Stafford,
VT, completed her one hundredth year
the third week in April, when three gen.
erations of her descendants were at the
anniversary dinner. Born at Gill, Mass,
married at twenty-five, she lived with
her husband seventy years, fifty Of them
in her present abode, and bore him eight
children, of whom five survive, the old
est being seventy and the youngest fif-
ty-eight years of age. Her mother,
Patty Bartlett Frizzell, lived to the age
of one hundred and one.
Dolly Sexton, one of the members of
the Shaker Community at Mount Leba-
non, N. Y, whose one hundredth birth
day occurred May 6, took her first ride
in railroad Car several weeks after
wards, and expressed herself every
much disappointed at the speed and
comfort of the same.
Mrs. Sally Birch, of Brookfield, Mass,
had some 500 guests, including four
generations of her descendants, at her
centennial birthday party in August.
Mrs. Abigail Lowering, OF Oxford, in
the same county, whose living descend
ants in the four successive generations
number Z, As, 100, and 9 respectively,
or 16l altogether, was at the State Fair
on her one hundredth birthday, Sep
TENDER l, knitting and spinning.
Mention was made in May of Miss
Betsey Jones, of Royalston, Mass, as
being in her one hundredth year, and
in June of Miss Sally Northrop, of New
Milford, Ct, as having attained her one
hundred and first.
The members the Free Church at
INST, Scotland, celebrated, April 3, the
one hundredth birthday of their pastor,
Rev. DIR. James Ingram, who made
them a brief address. The record of
the Edinburgh Almanac shows that he
was ordained in 1903.
Rev. John Gloucester, who while a
slave in the family of Presbyterian
minister organized the first African
Presbyterian Church in America, cele-
brated his centennial at Philadelphia
September 10.
Windsor Howe, of Bolton, Mass,
who completed his one hundredth year
July 81, is described as having passed
a quiet, uneventful life, and being now
blind and little conscious of passing
events. He was saddler by trade, and
always of active and temperate habits.
nhoehCi "oASCStCA SouhtJ 1hoAs CoOh-
eyer Dunbar, of Leicester, entered his
one hundredth year March 80, hale and
hearty.
Mention was made in January of a
woman named Loomis, an inmate of
the poor-hOuse of Pawlet, VT, who
made vow when she entered it in Oc-
tober, 1926, at the age of fifty, that the
town should have a pauper to care for
for fifty years.
Miss Betsey Carr, a deaf mute, for a
long time an inmate of the poor-house
at Claremont, N. H., was mentioned in
March as having nearly finished her
one hundred and fifth year, and Esther
of the almshouse in Berkeley,
Mass, was said in July to be about one
hundred and ten years old.
Mrs. Harriet Hawley, who celebrated
her one hundred and third birthday at
Boston Highlands August 6, was born
at Stratham, N. H., and lost her hus-
band in the war of 1912. Her father,
lothian Rollins, was q lieutenant at
Hill and stood beside General
Warren when he fell. She never at
tended q theater or rode in q steam
car; is of cheerful conversation; pos
sesses all her faculties, and occasional
ly cooks her own dinner without assist
ancp