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

wEs sxD WOMEN wHo HAVE IvEH
one HUNDRED YEARS

esisbrxtsOns. perhaps the Ios' notable
xas tha. II Mrs HAnnahcox. 81 Hold
srts--. y III Born AZ Preston. CT
June 20. i.,.6. hsr parents removed 10
l7s5 20 FaiElce. VI. AMI scots after 20
Hold. rn..... where she married IN is3-
Robert Cox. who died in Isz2. Russell
Cox, agei seventy seYen. and hr. Col
ley, both Il Holierness. are the sole
Survivors of her sevsn children Her
father. Isaac W stanton. sss . captain
IL company Of Connectieu. volunteers
In the war II Independence Common
orati.e exerei-es were hsId after
ward 10 ,he old Episcopal Church. and
aftsrwards large company assembled
a. tn. Cox homestead, where he cen
tensrian received her guest ln the b,-st
of heal IA aid spirits
Mrs.. Mary Hollis White, widow of
Nathaniel White. OF Weymouth. Mass.
with her many relatives and descend
ants, celebrated the Tooth anniversary
OF her birth. February 18th. al the resi-
denee of Mr. White. Of Braintrec She
is the third If nine children % Captain
Thomas Hollis, who served with his
three brothers in the War Of Indepeud-
ence. aud her descendants number 8
children. 26 grandchildren. 81 great
grandchildren, and ID great great
grandchildren. Hef two surviving
daughters are the wives of General
Nathan Heard and George NJ. Rice of
Worcester. and George White, Judge Of
Probate Of Norfolk county, is one If
her grandsons She was personally ac-
quainted with John Adams and with
John Quincy Adams. and the principal
events of the nations history are vivid
in her mind She is still possessed OF
her faculties. is able to do sewing, and
has not been i'll for more than fifty
years.
Mrs. Martha Il. Morey, of Stafford.
VI. completed her Que hundr"dth year
the third week In April, when three
generations of her descendants were
present at tire 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 oldest being
seventy and the youngest fifty eight
years Of age. Her mother. Patty Bart
lett Frizxell. lived TO the age Of one
hundred and one.
Dolly Sexton. one OF the members OF
the Shaker Community. at Mount Leb-
anon. y. y whose one hundredth birth
day occurred May 9th. took her first
ride in railroad car several weeks af-
terward. and expressed herself very
much disappointed a, 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 in August
Mrs Abigail Lowering, Of Oxford, in
the same county. whose living descend
ants ia the four successive generations
number !. Ii. 100. and .. respectively,
or i6i. altogether. was at the State
Fair ON her one hundredth birthday,
September LIST, knitting and spinning
Mention was made in May OF Miss
Bctsey Jones of Royalston. Mass, as
being in her one hundredth year. and
in June If Miss Sally Nor,hrop of Mil
ford. Connecticut. as having attained
her one hundredth and first
The members OF the Free Church At
Uust. Scotland, celebrated. April sd.
the one hundred,h birthday Of their
pastor. Rev. DR. James Ingram. who
made them brief address. The rec
ord OF the Edinburgh almanac shows
that he was ordained in 1903.
Rev John Gloucester, who. while q
slave In the family of a Presbyterian
minister. organized the first African
Presbyterian Church in America, .cele-
brated his centennial at Phil,isl pha
September loth.
Windsor Howe of Boston. MsssaChu-
setts. who completed his one hnndredth
year July ist, is described ss having
passed quiet. uneventfnl life, aud as
being now blind and little eonscis us of
passing events lie was Addler by
trade. and alwas Of active end tenn
pera,. habits. Another Worcester
cou n,y man, Ebenczer Dunbar. Of Lei
cester. entered his one huudredth year
March 29th. hale and hearty.
Mention was made. in January. oi
a woman named Looms, au inmate OF
the Poor House of Pawlet. VT. who
made a VOW when she entered IL. in
October. 1926. At the age of fifty. tha,
the town would have a pauper to care
for for fifty years
Miss Bcisey Carr. leaf mute. for q
long time an inmate # the Poor House
AZ Clsremont, y. H.. was mentioned
III March, ss having nearly finished
her io5,h year. and Esther Norcatt. ot
.he almshousc in Berkeley, MaSsa
chusetts, WAS said. in July. TO be abou,
ITO years cid
Mrs. Harriet Ia wiley. who celebrated
Der lo3d birthday At Boston Highlands,
August 9th. MAS born a, Stratham.
New Hampshire, aud los. her husband
in the war ofisi2 Her father lothian
Rollins. MAS Lieutenant at Bunker
Hill. aud stool beside General Warren
" hen he fell. She never attended A
theatre or rode in steam car, is of
cheerful conversation. possesses all hei
faculties. and occasionally >ooks bet
own dinner without assistance.
Mr.. Mary Goodsle. Of Pequonit
Bridge. Connecticut. who was lol year:
ola Jane asst. visited New London II
August. aud bad her picture taken II
company With her grandson and bel
srsa. great -gyand daughter. She Il
still abe - % up and down stair:
wi,hout assistance aud 10 call upon be-
neishhors unattended.
Mrs. Jumula Graves. q native o
S,urhriisv. uow living n Bflmfieli
Massachusetts,. with her daughter. Mr.
Va III - s4s1 wears ~ sen