The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02
He lost his right arm forty years ago

He lost his right arm forty years ago
by the fall of tree.
At the Fourth of July celebration in
Chester, Mass, it was announced that
Mrs. Sarah Patton, aged one hundred
and two, would sit upon the pertico of
her house while the procession passed
in front. Mention was made the same
month of Thomas Day, Of Chelsea,
aged one hundred and two, who de-
clared that persistent tobacco smoking
had never hurt him, and that he
"should do it again" if he had his CEN
fury to live over again.
An Irish resident of the First Ward
in Springfield, claimed in August the
title of Oldest inhabitant by virtue of
having passed his one hundredth birth
day; and Baltimore paper mentioned
in July that Rev. DR.. Lovick Pierce, of
the Southern Methodist Church, still
occasionally occupied his pulpit, though
on the verge of completing his century.
A veteran of 1912, aged eighty-twO,
who called at the pension Office at Of
tawa in July to receive his 500 gratuity,
was accompanied by his father, aged
one hundred and four, who was too old
to enter the army in that war.
At the time of the death of Mrs. Mar
garet Wentworth, aged ninety, at Rome,
n. Y, in May, she was said to have left
behind her four brothers and sisters,
the youngest aged eighty and the eldest
aged one hundred and one.
In April, Timothy CrOnan, aged one
hundred and one, was said to be living
in Cheshire, and "quite lively" and
General Sabert Oglesby, the same age,
who commanded q division under Jack
son at the battle of New Orleans, was
said to be living in Texas.
Mrs. Elizabeth Reuter-, q native OF
Luxembourg, Germany, completed her
one hundred and ninth year at Balti.
more last Christmas morning, and was
mentioned a month later as still able to
superintend the homework.
A woman of one hundred and seven,
who went out marketing at New Bruins
wick, N. j., during a February snow
storm, was rescued from a snow-drift
by the police; and the public was told
next month of an Omaha woman, aged
one hundred, who for fifteen years has
had her grave clothes ready and given
them an annual washing and ironing.
Mrs. S. Williams, of Sterling, Mass,
was reported in January, two months
after completing her centennial, as in
excellent health and spirits. At the
same time were noticed two Philadel.
phia centenarians, John Smith, who
says he was born in England Jan. "a,
1772, and Mrs. Susan Hague, one hun
dred and four, who remembers Wash
iDgton and his wife,. suffered in the
city's first yellow-fever epidemic, when
her mother died, and has child aged
seventy-three and a grandchild aged
fifty-twO years.
Mrs. Milly Carpenter, of Edgefield
County, N. c., aged one hundred and
ten, though deaf, has good eyesight,
and weaves at her loom nearly every
day.
"Uncle" Ben Greer, a negro, of
Marshall County, Ky, who had some
documentary evidence in support of his
claim to be one hundred and thirteen
years old, married in April a young
woman of fifty-seven.
John Charles La Mont, of Fort Kent,
Me-, one hundred and seven, was no.
ticed in May as the father of twenty
three children and an inveterate user of
tobacco.
On the 18th of that month Lady
Smith, widow of Sir James Edward
Smith, President of the LinnBan Society,
entered ON her one hundred and fourth
year in perfect health. She invited
Mr.. W. j. Thomas, the disbeliever in
centenarians, to dine with her on the
anniversary, but he declined.
Nancy Marshall, who was born at
Greenwich, Ct, August IS, ITO, and
married in 1895 an ex-Revolutiouary
soldier named Ira Mead, was still liv-
ing there in September, as for thirty
years past, with her grandniece, Mrs.
Joseph Jefferson. She occupies an up
per room, from which she can get a
view of the surrounding country, and
she sits by the window all day, though
no infirmity obliges her to keep still.
She has never been i'll in her life, and
her memory of remote events is very
clear.
A Frenchman named Shepard, one
hundred and nineteen years old, left
the town of Washington, Mass, in July
to make home in Michigan with his
aged seventy-five. He still
walks without q cane, has upwards of
fifty great-grandchildren, and is trying
to get a pension from the French Gov
eminent for his services in the old
French wars.