The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25

VERY OLD fEOfLE.
Many OF Them Showing Remarkable Pres
ervation OF Both Body and Mind.
Jones County, Iowa, has its centenarian
Robert Carr.
James Stone is S Louisville, KY, man, 10a
years of age, who has had eleven wives.
The mother of Mrs. Elizabeth II. Learned
of Oxford. Mass. still lives at the age Of sc
years.
NJ G. Ward, of Batavia, N. Y, is 95 years
of age, and Joshua Stowell Of Ashburnham
Mass, is 81.
Joseph Muncy died on Friday ct Little
Washington, Pa, just as he had completed a
century of life.
Mrs. Lille Peabody, Of Quincy, ILL.,, was
81 when she died, and Benjamin Hickey Of
Ten Mile, Pa, 101.
Mrs. Thomas Adams, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
has descendants to the fifth generation, and
is 81 years Of age.
In 1898 Julia Wilson was slave in Phila-
delphia and Ii years of age. She is there
fore 100 years Of age.
Mrs. Prudence Glover takes pride in her
birthplace, Maryland, and celebrated her
centennial on Monday.
Near Saratoga, in Corinth N. T., Abigail
Bramer recently met her death by accident
at the age of SO years.
Mrs. Joanna Boulger died recently in
Chillicothe, Ohio, aged 90, and Abraham
Steward at Indianapolis, aged lOl.
Mrs. Margaret Dodson, of Houston.
County, Texas, glories in the fact that she
has fifty-one great grandchildren living.
a nj hos fxuo ant oria
Mexicans, born in Sonora-Bascual Cruz,
10 years old, and Jesus Obledo, 100 years
old.
Mrs. Sarah Moseley of Madison, Ind, is
enjoying visit from her son, whom she has
not seen in forty.seven yeara. Mrs. Moseley
is Ill years old.
James Hyatt, of Winfield, l.. l.. is nine
ty-two years of age, and comes regularly to
New York to draw his pension as veteran
of the war of 1872.
Mrs. Margaret Kale of Reading, Pa, was
107 years OF age on Wednesday, and Mrs.
Lydia Wilcox Of Greensburg, Ind, died on
that day. aged o..
The Sixth Ward of Saginaw City, Mich,
claims French woman ITO years of age,
who planted, cultivated, and dug two acres
of potatoes last season.
After living ninety-three years, Andrew
Shafer of Allegheny, Pa, was strangled to
death by robbers who entered his dwelling
in the night for plumber.
Sixteen soldiers met in Paris, KY, re-
Gently whose united ages was 1890 years, or
an average of SCI years. The Oldest was
ninety six, and the youngest eighty-two.
Mrs. Eaglin, Kentucky lady of Carroll
County was always great lover of the cir
Gus. She is ninety-eight years of age, but
recently walked two miles to attend one.
Mrs. Rebecca Frost, of Hart County,
Georgia, tells stories of the Revolutionary
War. She is 107 years of age and still in
splendid health, retaining all her faculties
High Falls, N. Y, has lost ner last veter-
an of the war of 1872 in Abraham d. Clear
water, who died recently in his ninety
fourth year. He always enjoyed good
health.
Mrs Hannah Cox, of Helderness, N. H.,
celebrated her one hundred and fourth birth
day on the 25th ult. She goes all about the
house without assistance, and reads without
glasses.
"I'm not at all tired" said Mrs. Alio. of
Tylersburg, Pa, as she sat down in her sons
house, after q walk of seven and half miles
and she is in her one hundred aud sew
emit. year.
When the grandmother of N. B. Doak, of
Stocton, CAL, was q century old she made
him pair of wooden socks. She died re-
Gently at Wythe County, Virginia, aged
103 years.
Anna Miller and Abby Washington of
Warwick, Pa, are each ninety-two years of
age, and Peggy O'Neil and William Shafer
of Middleton, D., are each ninety-seven
years OF age.
With only Q servant as q companion, old
Mrs. Hatsfeld lives in her quiet home in
Philadelphia. She has passed century in
years, is very feeble and almost helpless, and
likes seclusiOn.
Miss Mary Walker of Phillipsburg, Nj,
claims to be 107 years of age, and says it is
all owing to her remaining an old maid
Family cares, she says, are the ruin OF the
health of thousands.
During the extreme heat of the past week,
Lydia Brenise of Akron, Ohio, who is over
80 years of age, worked in the field the en-
tire day binding wheat. The heat and labor
had nc apparent effect upon her.
Benjamin Fish, of Trenton, n j., although
"a years of age, was an active business man to
the day of his death. He died while eating
breakfast on the 22d ult He was the first
man to burn stove coal in Trenton.
Muskegon, Mich, is proud of Mrs Honora
Hogan, who is as lively as the youngest,
reads. knits and sews without glasses, has
splendid appetite,and walks to church regu-
larly each Sunday, at the age of 5.
Troy. n Y, is the home of Mrs. Elvira
Crabb, who, although over 80 years of age,
is still teaching private school, over which
she has presided for the last fifty years. She
has taught four generations of one family.
The Fourth of July brought Joy to Mrs.
Newton King of Hartford. Conn. She is
very old las been partially insane, and has
not conversed for over seven years; but on
the Fourth" she suddenly regained her
speech.
Marsac, the old French trader, died in
Bay City, Mich, on Thursday, aged 100.
He was an old stager, knew the trails of the
Northwest when the.v ran through an al
most unbroken wilderness, and fought on
the staff of General Lewis Cas-.
George Heisely of Harrisburg died recent
ly in his ninety first year. He with his brother
was drafted in the war Of 1872, and marched
to Baltimore to defend that city He was
an active business man, and the last sur
viving soldier of the war of 1912 living in
Harrisburg.
Half century ago Elder William L
Benedict OF Warwick, N. Y, Graded and
bound a field of grain. On the same farm
he performed the same work on Wednesday,
last He afterward drove fifteen miles to
fulfill an appointment to preach. He is
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