The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1876-11-30


Army. who celebrated aha. he said
Vas his 10 birthday, on the 9th Of
March One set u writers attempt 10
prove frogn the army records tba. be is
twenty years younger than that, alleg-
ing that III 1918 be pleaded youthful
indisereti0n7 N palliation for some mis-
conduct 81 a soldier. though, according
20 bis present claim, be was then So
years old. Ga the other hand, The be-
levers in the Captains great longav-
i;y, If whom there are many. assert
that bis de,ractors have oonfoanded his
case with that Of younger officer of
the same name.
Loaner Griffin Of Lodi. O.. whose
portrait With that Of bis third son.
Willis Griffin, aged seventy -four. Was
published May |. 1875. and who eeie-
braled bis 10th birthday on the 2ad Of
April, was one Of the features Of the
the Fourth of July procession at Akron
4 native of CRANKY. Conn. he has
always bsen "A moderate whisky
drinker. Dnt has never used tobacco.
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 log. would sit
upon the portico OF. her house while the
procession passed ill front. Mention
was made the same month Of Thos.
Day. of Chelsea, Mass, aged l02. who
declared that persistent tobacco smok-
ing had never hurt him, and that he
would do it again" if he had his CEN
tury 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 Tooth birthday; and
a Baltimore paper mentioned in July
that Rev. DIR. Lovick Pierce, OF the
Southern Methodist Church, still occa-
sionally occupies the pulpit, though on
the verge of completing his century. A
veteran of 1912, aged eighty-two. who
called at the Pension Office at Ottawa
in July to receive his $40 gratuity, was
accompanied by his father, aged 104.
who was too old 10 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 so. and the eldest
aged i0l
In April, Timothy Cronan. aged 101.
was said TO be living in Cheshire, and
quite lively" and General Sabert
Oglesby. of the same age. who COM
manded division under Jackson mt
the battle of New Orleans, was said to
be living in Texas.
Mrs Elizabeth Reuter-, native of
Luxemburg. Germany. completed her
l09th year at Baltimore last Christmas
morning. aud was mentioned month
later as still! able 10 superintend the
housework.
A woman Of i01. who went oat mar
keting a. New Brunswick. n. j., during
"A February snow-storm. was rescued
from snow drift by the police; and
the public WAS told next month of an
Omaha woman aged 100. who for six
teen years has had her grave clothes
ready, aud has given them an annual
washing and ironing.
Mrs. 5 Williams, of Sterling, Mass,
was reported in January. two months
after completing her centennial. rs in
excellent health and spirits. At the
same time were noticed two Philadel.
phia centenarians John Smith, who
SAYS he was born IN England in 1872 !;
and Mrs. Susan Hague, aged l04. who
remembers Washington and his wife.
suffered in the city's first s.yellow fever
epidemic when her mother died, and
has child aged -, and grant
aged 81 years
Mrs. Milly Carpenter, OF Edgetield
county. N C., aged 10. though deaf.
has good eyesight. and weaves her loom
nearly every day.
Uncle" Ben Green. a negro. of Mar
shall county. KY. who has some docu-
meniary evidence in support of his
claims tn be li3 years old, married in
April young woman Of 81.
John Charles La Mont. of Fort Kent,
Ne, io7. was noted in May rs the IA
thcr of twenty three children, AMI All
inve,erate user Of tobacco
On the llth Of that month Lady
Smith. widow Of st. James Edward
Smith, President Of the Linnean Socie-
ty, entered on her l0ith year in perfect
health She invited Mr.. w. j. Thom-
! a.. the disbeiiever in eentennarians TO
/ dine with her On the anniversary, but
/ he declined.
+ Nancy Marshall. who WAS born a.
/ Greenwich, Conn. August Is. 17.0,
/ and married in 1895 an exRevolntion-
airy soldier named Ira Mead. Was still
/ living there in. September. as for thirty
( years past. with her grandniece, Mrs.
Joseph jefferson. She occupies ALI up
per room. from which she can get a
/ view Of the surrounding country. and
she sits 10y the window all day. though
no intirinisy obliges her 10 keep still.
! She has never been al in her life, aud
her memory Of remote events Is very
clear
\ Freedman named Shepard, iI6
years old. left the town Of Washington.
Mass. in July to make home in Mich
igan with hi. daughter, aged IS. He
/ still walks without q cane. has upwards
! Of :ifty great grandchildren. aud is try
ing so re, 8 pension from the French
Government for his services in the
French wars
Some If the newspsper notices Of
centsnarians are writteu with . meek.
ing spirit as u the story Of John Allen.
who appeared a. Cincinnati in June,
whittier be bad walked from Pitt coun
~. y C., 200 miles, on his way 10 bis
relatives at shelbyvilie, Ind. lie said
hc Was born on vessel of Newhern.