The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03
OLD PEOPLE.

NO. Z.
OLD PEOPLE.
Remarkable Ages and Still More Re-
Markable Facts.
New York SUM-
Mrs. Scott. of Tyrone, Pa, has just
died in her 92d year.
Mrs. Betsy Mason, of Mt. Morris, N.
T.. is Just rounding q century of life.
David Lopes, a veteran Of 1912, has
just died in New York city, aged 92.
Mrs. Susanna Fohl. of Greencastle.
Pa, died lately at the age of 81 years !.
) John ]. Marshall, q great jurist and
writer, of Cape Breton, has Just died,
aged "a.
Mrs. Mary D. Maywell, of Blooming
ton, Ill.,, was in her 93d year when she
died recently.
/ Laurael, Del, has lost its centenar-
ian in the person Of Grace, a negress.
who has just died, aged lis.
Mrs. Gillespie, of Morgan county,
KY, is lO3 years old and walks two
miles to church every Sunday.
Mrs. Jane G. Bitton, of 16 West Ninth
Tstreet, New York, hasjust been buried
after busy life of 80 years.
| At Kingsbzidge, N. Y, Mrs. Elizabeth
Berrien died recently, aged 80, and
Samuel Haviland at Rye, aged 81.
Mrs. Betsey E. Wright died at West
field, N. Y, in her 93d year. She was
the Oldest Presbyterian in town.
At the age of SO Mrs. Sarah w.
Schureman, sister Of the late Senator
Garrett D. Wall, died at Shrewsbury
New Jersey.
Matilda Stevenson lived to be 1C5
years of age before she made a profess
sion of faith, and was baptized at Paris,
KY, last Sunday.
An old lady, aged 96, of Carmel, N.
Y, Was the chief mourner, and went to
the grave at the funeral OF her daughter,
aged 76.
Harry Skinner, of Powell county, KY,
has thick hair coming on his bald head,
and has lately cut several teeth, al
though he is nearly 80.
John McRea, of Towando, had unim-
paired eyesight up to the day of his
death. He was the oldest inhabitant of
the village, and died at 80.
"Aunt Bette" Langhorn died in Lex
ington. Mo-, on Saturday, and Drury
Petty in Benton township on Monday.
Each had passed q century.
Admiral Philip .Westphall, the oldest
commissioned officer in the British
navy, died recently in the 98th year
of his age. He entered the navy in
1894.
Florence Nightingale becomes an
orphan by the death Of her mother,
aged 81. She herself is great in
valid, seldom leaves her room but is
never idle.
Mrs. Julia A. Sharp died recently
in Mannheim township, Pa, in her
goth year. She was most happy and
cheerful woman and a pleasant compan-
ion.
Ruthia Shippers died in the Elkton
(Md.) almshouse, aged ITO years. She
was born a slave, but enjoyed fifty
years of freedom, having been manu-
mitted.
Mrs. Waty Clark, of Oswego, N. Y,
still lives, at the age of LOG. She has
been the mother of twelve children,
and, until very recently, had her facul-
ties unimpaired.
Marshall county, Tenn, has resi-
dent who has lived within five miles. Of
a railroad many years, but has never
seen q train or q steamboat. He is
nearly 80.
Baltimore loses another centenarian
in Sarah Springer. who died recently
aged 103. She leaves thirty.one grand
children and twenty-eight greatgrand-
children.
| A violent fall killed, recently, the
Oldest Indian of the Allegheny reserva-
ton, named John Lewis. He died at
Salamanca, just as ne had completed q
century of life.
The Oldest lawyer in Scotland, Charles
Winchester, died on March q, Just as
he had completed his Tooth year. He
was born at Echt, in Aberdeenshire, on
February %, 1881.
Edwin Jackson, of Toms River, N. j.,
has just passed his Goth birthday, and
has always enjoyed good health. He
was for many years q boatman, but has
never been in railroad car.
| The mental vigor OF Andrew Norton,
of Elmira, n. Y, was remarkable to
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on Wednesday. He was q pensioner
of the war of 1872, and died aged SO.
Oliver Abel, or., is just now suffering
with congestion of the lungs from q
cold caught while chopping wood on 9
mountain lot near his residence at
EllzabethtowD, New York. He is 81
years old.
Mrs. Julia Smith Parker, of Glas astol,-
bury, Conn.,, celebrated the first anni-
versary of her marriage in May, al
though she is SO years of age. 1t is
proposed to pay her great honor on
that day.
Ada township, Mich, sincerely
mourns the loss of Ebenezer Swami, .
farmer, and 3 most estimable man,
who has Just died, aged los. He was q
native of Maine, but one of the Oldest
settlers of Michigan.
The proud mother of seventeen
children, the eldest of whom is 82
years of age, and the infant 48, Mrs.
Drassett, Of Grand Rapids, Mich, is
lust rounding century Of life. She is
in good health, with unimpared intel.
lect.
/ Advice to Girls.
i The girls must feel as if they were
Igetting more than their fair share of adj
vice. Whatever isn't politics in most
Of the newspapers is advice to girls, and
there is hardly anything on this earth
that the average girl wouldn't rather