West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-19
Death OF Centenarians in 1877.

January 4. Mrs. Mary Sharkey died
/ I'm New Y, rk City: She was born i'm
I Sligo, Ireland, in 1875, and was l02
/ years of age. She ate nothing for eigh-
/ teen days before her demise.
February >. Caroline Lambert died
at Omaha, Nebraska, aged l0l. She
was burned To death while dressing n
sore arm with kerosene.
February IA. Mrs. Mary Dunham.
aged l05, died at Glenville, New York.
February Ii. Aaron Easton died at
Tyre, New York, aged l0l He was
born in New Jersey, and of small stat
urc.
February IA. Mrs. Eunice White.
wife of Peleg w. White, aged 1O2, nj
Macedon, New YORK.
February 26. Hugh Martin, at New
York City, aged 105. Born in Ireland.
March Is. Augusten Picard, aged l09,
died at Rochester, New York He was
born at 1T. Pierre, Quebec, in 1867. His
father died at the age of los, his mother
at the age of l04, and his sister now
lives at Quebec, aged l09. He was an
invctcrate smoker, regular drinker
never had head or stomach ache. and
was confined TO his bed for only eight
weeks.
March 90. Philip Cavanaugh, aged
lO5 died az Xaleski, Ohio. He was n
native of Ireland
March %. Mrs. Catharine Schneider,
age l0l, at Kenosha, Wisconsin. Ill
only six weeks.
March "a. Samuel Vaum, aged l04,
died at Tramansbury, Thompkins
County, New York.
April 3. Caption Fred. Lahrbrush
died at New York, aged Ill.
April 20. Lcttis B. Steele, aged l02
years seven months and eighteen days.
died at Passaic, New Jersey. He was
born in new Bedford, Massachusetts,,
September 2, IVA He ate no food for
five days before his death.
May 4. Mrs. Rosa Brady, aged 103, at
New York City; born at Cavan County,
in Ireland, l774.
May 6. Bridget Rush, aged 103, died
in st. Joseph's Home for the Aged, in
New York. She fell down stairs some
days before her death.
June 26. Ann Henry, aged 105, died
in New York. Born i'm Ireland.
July .. Mrs. Susan Hague, aged JOG,
in New York City. She had fifty-four
grandchildren and twelve great-grand-
children. Her husband was sea cap
RiN ilNth W AiiN sE' VI tiEuil -lilItc.
She never had any disease but the yell
low-fever.
July6. Mrs. Margaret Boyd, aged 102
years, ten months and ten days, died in
New York City. She was born i'm Derry
County, Ireland. She used no spec
tacles, and could see to darn stockings.
July "a. An unknown woman, aged
lO3, died at residenceof John Jenkins, at
Newton, Long Island, who took care of
her for fourteen years.
August 8. Mrs. Rosa Quinn, widow of
a drayman, aged l04, died at Dubuque,
Iowa.
August IS. Mrs. Eliza Thomas, aged
log, died at Ripley, Ohio.
August 26. John Francis, (colored)
aged l03. died Mt Harrison, Wcstchester
County, New York. He had been a slave
and escaped by an underground railway.
September %. William Goodman.
aged 10l, died at Little Britain, Orange
County, New York. He was born July
4, 1776; was farm laborer, and worked
until the day before his death
November 1n. Thomas Grimaldi, aged
l02, died at Knoxville, Tennessee.
November 23. Joseph King, a native
of Lower Canada, aged 1O2, died at
Chicago
November %. Mrs. Elizabeth Allen,
aged l05 years Gve months and six DAYS,
died at Charleston, Rhode Island
December 9. Catharine Fitzpatrick,
aged 100, died at Bellevue, Hospital,
New York.