The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-14
AGED EXCEPTIONS.
A LIST OF PEOPLE ONE HUNDRED YEARS
OLD AND UPWA ARD.

OF the years Centennial birthday ceie-
brations, perhaps the most notable was that
of MIS-. Hannah Cox mt Iolderuess, n. I'll.
Born at Preston. Conn, June 26, 1116 her
parents removed in 1885 to FaIrlee, Vt,
and soon after to Holderness, where she
married in 1913 Robert Cox, who died III
1922. Russell Cox, aged ~, aud Mrs.
CCllcy, both of Ho'derness, are the sole
survivors of her seven children. Her faith
er, Isaac w. stanton, was captain OF "A
company of Connecticut volunteers i'll the
war Of Independence. Commemorative
exer cises were held in the af ernoon i'll the
old Episcopal church, and afterward large
company assembled at the Cox homestead,
where tue enieuarau II ceived EeI guests
i'll the best of health.
Mrs Mary Hollis White, widow of Ma
thaniel White of Weymouth, Mass, with
Ler many relatives aud descendants, cele-
brated the Tooth anniversary of her birth
February 2Jth, at the residence of MIR.
White of Braintree. She is the third OF
nine children Of Capt. Thomas Hollis, who
served with his three brothers III the war
of Independence, and her rdescendentS mum
Der six children, twenty-sIx grandchliuien,
thirty.seven great grandchildren, ana NJ
teen great great grandchildren. Her Two
surviving daughters are wives o! Oeil. Ma
than Heard and George Nj. Rice OF W or
cgStcE
hate court of Norfolk county, is one OF her
grandsous. She was personally acquainted
with John Adams aud John Quincy Acams,
and the principal events of the nation > nus
tory are vivid in her mind. she Is stili pos
sessed of her faculties, is able to do sewing
and has not been i'll for more than nifty
years. "
Mrs. Martha F. Morey of Strafford, VT,
coupleted her one hundredth year the thiId
her descendants were present at the annl-
vers,,-v dinner Born at Gil, Mass, mar
ried at twenty-five, she lived with her nus
band seventy years, hfiy OF them III hef
nresent abode. and bore him eight children,
of whom five survive, the oldest being se'-
enty, and The youngest iity elghi years Oh
age. Her mother, Fatty BaftieCG fiI%~eH'
lived to the age of lOI. r
Dolly Sexton, one of the members oi the
Shaker community AT Mount Lebanon, y.
Y. whose Tooth birthday occurred May o,
took her fl gst ride i'll a railroad car severn.
weeks aGterward, and expressed herseii
svery much disappointed at the sfeen anu
comfort of the same.
Mrs. Harriet llawley, who celebrated her
1O3d birthday at Boston iilehian"S' 1NuS.
g was born at Stratham, n. H., and iosI
her husband III The war of lSl2 Her iaAh-
or lothian Rollins, was lieutenant at
Rnuker Hill. amidst ood beside Gen. " Narieh
when he fell. She never attended inca,
ire or rode in a steam car; Is of cheeii"i
cnnve,satiou, possesses all Der tacultieS,
aud occasionally cooks her own dinner
without assistance.
Mrs. Mary Goodale OF P"quoitnoc 'tiuSe'
Connecticut, who was one hundred an" wv"
wears old June 2t, visited New Lon,ioh u"
August aud had her picture taken ih com
panv with her grandson ana bei eiea'-
great granddaughter. She Is stu aois I"
| 40 nm and down stairs without aSSistance
and to call upon her neighbors uuatiend-d.
An Irish resident of the First ~aId III
/ Springfield claimed in August the ute oi
oldest inhabitaut, by virtue OF having pass
ed his lOOth birthday, and Bai.inh9rc pa
ner mentioned in July that Rev Dr. Lower
| Pierce. of the Sou hern Methodist churcn'
s,ill occasionally occupied his pulpit, though
| ON the verge Of completing his cen'u'
! a veteran Of 1912, aged ~, VINO ca az az
/ the uension office in July To receive ms ~
! gratuity. was accompanied by DIS iatnI''
! ayed 104, who was too old to enter 'no
| army in that war 80 N.rn.-
AZ the time of the death of Mrs. Marga-
ret Wentworth, aged 80, at Rome, NJ :,
| in Nav. she was said to have left oehihu
| her four brothers aud sisters, the youuses'
! AGED so and the eldest TO-.
In April Timothy Cronsn, aged iol, was
said to be living in Cbeslre, ano q..o
| ively.' and Gen. Sabert Ogiesoy, oil 'ho
! same age. who commanded DIVISION u"-
der jackson at the battle OF New Ofieahe'
was said 10 be living in Texas.