The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-14

eu.ouIS, germany, competed her 1UJth
year at Baltimore last Christmas morning,
and was mentioned month later as still
able to superintend the housework.
n woman of 107, who vent out market
ing at New Brunswick, n. J., during a
February snow storm, was rescued from a
snowdriit by the police: and the public was
I told next month of an Omaha woman ao ed
100, who for fifteen years has had her grave
clothes ready. and given them an annual
washing and ironing.
Mis-. 5. Williams, of Sterling, Mass, was
reported i'll January, two months after
completing her centennial as in excellent
health and spirits. At the same time were
noticed two Philadelphia centenarians
John Smith, who says he was born in Eng
laad, Jan. 24, 1112, and Mrs. Susan Hague,
lO4, who remembers Washington aud his
wife, suffered in the city's first yellow fever
epidemic when her mother died, and has a
child aged seventy-three and a grandcaild
aged fitty-two years.
Uncle Ben Greer, a negro of Marshall
| county, Kentucky, who had some oiocu-
mentary evidence i'll support of his claim
to be 113 years old, married a young wo-
man of 81.
John Charles La Mont, of Fort Kent,
Me, 107, was noted in May as the father of
tweniy-three children, and an inveterate
user of tobs eco.
widow of Sir James Edward Smith, presi-
dent of the Linuena society, entered on
her 104 II year in perfect health. She in
vited Mr.. w. j. Thomas, the disbeliever in
ceutenarians, to dine with her on the ami
versary, but he declined.
Nancy Marshall, who was born at Green
wjch, Conn, August 18th, 1770. and mar
RED in 1875 an cX-Revolutiondry soldier
named Ira Mead, was still living there in
Spntpnl lpr C,r thirty ~ wit In
her grand-niece, Mrs. Joseph jefferson.
She occupies an upper room, from which
she can get n 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.
\ Frcuchman named Sheppard, aged
119 years, left the town of Washing ton,
Mass, i'll July, TO make home i'll Michi-
gan with his daughter, aged seventy five.
He still walks without a cane, has upward
of fifty great-grandchildren aud is trying
to get a pension from the French govern
meut for his services in the old French
wars.
Some Of the newspaper notices of ccnte
narlaDS are written with d mOckIng SpIrlt.
as is the story Of John Allen, who appeared
at Cincinnati i'll June, whittier lie had
walked from Pitt county, North Carolina,
400 miles. on his way to his relatives at
Shelbyville, Ind. He said he WAS born on
4 vessel off New bern, y. c., on the 9th of
October, 1711, aud that his father was kill
ed in the war, and his mother died when
lie WAS six years old. Sweet potatoes aud
coffee Irad been his chief articles of diet
from his youth up ; he had chewed little
tobacco all his life, but bad rarely used llq
uor he had never been sick, never got re-
ligion,' ard never married and i'll hot
weather lie would sleep leaning against a
tree iii preference to taking bed. When
a boy he heard Washington say: esquire
Wooten, if you ever break this constitution
you are gone
In FEBRUARY St. Louis was said to be
'boasting of Il champion Centenarlan, who
could stand on his head and If anybody
should tell an Ei1ingham county Georgian
that he didn't believe Jeanette Wheeler
was 100 years old he would die before
morning.
Barnwell. S. c., vas said in July to claim
the oldest couple in the country, John j..
Peoples and wife, aged 126 and 1913. In
May it WAS said that Mrs. Melia Dodd, OF
Bowling GIeen, Ky, l16 years old, was
going to the Centennial to see II she could
keep her daugliters--two giIls o! So and IA
out of mischief and i'll June came the
report that Eulalia Percy CULLEN, 13S years
old having descendants III seven genera
tions. had been kidnapped at Los Angeles
Cal, for exhibition as a Centennial curios-
itv A daughter of ninety nine had start
ed to take her to Philadelphia the month
before for purposes OF exhibition, out q
granddaughter of seventy five prevented
the project, only to have the old lady car
RED off 10y a speculator. It was at tins
same Los Angeles that in May Jose Mal Ia
Lucele, aged ITO, walked in very spright-
ly and agile manner in a Roman Cathollc
procession The editor of the S'tn, of
Claremon;, O, said i'll August of man OF
his acquaintance 125 years old Ills age
is not tie most remarkable hing about him.
He never voted for Washington. In .act,
he never voted at all The editor of tine
Reoisier. of Ironton, Mo, reported an in
terview with an old negro named Uncle
Isaac who is $50 or 200 years old, and who
keeps in his cabin the Identical hatcbet
used by the youthful Washington.