The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-11-24
RICH IN YEARS.
OF People Who Have Lived q
Century or 0 Little Less.

RICH IN YEARS.
Anecdotes Of People Who have Lived a
Century or . Little Less.
Tie Oldest person in Boyd county,
XIV is Ann Collins, a mulatto woman,
aged ITO years.
M. Chcvenil at the age of ninety hve
is giving a course OF lectures on the
science Of chemistry in Paris.
Although in her ninety-ninth year,
Mrs. Eaglin, of Carroll county, KY, re-
Gently walked two miles to a circus.
Greenfield, ILL.,, boasts of a citizen
ninety-two years Of age who has never
tasted liquor and was never in lawsuit.
Columbia county, New York, names
Dolly Sexton, a New Lebanon Shak-
eress, who is 104 years of age, as her
Oldest resident.
Mrs. Elizabeth Walker died recently
at Phillipsburg, Pa, aged l07 years, and
Benjamin Heacock at Brazil, Ind, at
the age Of l03.
After Nancy Macy had lived 100 years
she finally went into q pauper's grave.
She died recently in the Bourbon county
(Kentucky) poorhouse.
For forty years Betsy Taggart, of Mid
dletown, r. l., had been bedridden,
with no semblance of disease. She died
recently. aged ninety-one years.
Annie Torrance, of Hickman, KY,
had closed q century of life, but still
kept her place rs housemaid. She re-
Gently dropped dead while washing
dishes. =
Kalamazoo, Mich, is proud of John
Bodette, who. although 103 years OF
age, is still full of vitality. He dances
like a boy, and recently walked twelve
miles in four hours.
Lexington, KY, has the Oldest living
graduate OF West Point military
academy in the person of Wright Mer-
| rick of the class of 1892. He is the only
survivor of his class.
Mrs. Frances B. Wyatt for eighty
years has been q member OF the Metho-
dist church. She has seen a century of
life. and still lives at Chestnut Hill,
Philadelphia.
The oldest member of the Masonic
order living is Marcus Richardson, of
Bangor, Me-, who has belonged to the
order s"eventy-seven years. He is just
closing a century.
Mary WEIGH, of Seymour, Conn.,, was
the last of fourteen sisters; she was 1877
! years of age when she died a short time
ago. This centenarian died Of old age
rather than any physical ailment.
The. Oldest man in Pennsylvania is
Abram Johnston, why Is hale and hearty
at the age of I07 years. He has full
possession of his faculties, and does on
siderable daily labor.
Mrs. Phoebe Peck has celebrated her
centennial at her home in Westfeid,
New York. OF Ler thirty-three guests
four had just passed ninety years, and
all of the Others were approaching that
age
Mrs. Wyman Osgcod, of Warner, N.
H., has passed her 10lst birthday, and
Mrs. Sarah Ducas, of Volina township,
Cass county, is ITO years OF age, and
believed to be Oldest person in the State.
David Smith, of franklin, Pa, cele-
brated his close OF a century of life by
dividing among his children his fortune.
He died soon after the act, but not until
he was assured that the division was
acceptable to all concerned.
The Hon. Mark bennett, OF Kittery,
Me-, now in his ninety fourth year, is the
oldest surviving member of the legisla-
lures of Massachusetts and Maine. He
il In excellent health, and retains his
mental and physical powers In remark
able degree.
James Ludlow, of Bergen, New York,
recently took q trip to Oneida on q visit
to his AN. hter. He is l03 years OF age,
and is o hale and hearty old gentleman
He still saws wood, milks cows, and at
tends generally to- outdoor affairs His
faculties are all preserved.
Alexander Outlaw, of Laurers connty
Is stinetysthree years OF age but still
takes his place daily among the cotton
ynicEers. In q single day recently he
nieked ITO poundas He has been mar
RED four times, and his youngest child
is now only five years old.
Miss Betsey Roath, of Greenville,
Conn, celebrated the centennial ami
yersary of her birth at her residence,
which stands upon a portion of the grant
OF four square miles made to Robert
Roath, her ancestor, over two centuries
ago. She is in good health, and reads
without the aid Of glasses.
James CIephane, ninety years Of age
lives in Washington, and is the oldest
resident there. He acted as q compost.
tor on the first edition of Waverley,"
and also read proof with Sir Walter
Scott. He came here in 1877, and as a
member of the Washington artillery be
helped fire q salute when Lafayette left
this country for the last time.
In Woodbury., Nd, lives q woman
who was born April %. l776. Her
memory and hearing are excellent, but
she has been blind four years. Her hair,
once gray, is now turning black again.
She has not q tooth in her head. She
has no fewer than twenty-five grand
children and nearly sixty great-grsnd-
children, her Oldest great-grandchild
being a widow, aged t~wenty-four.
Mrs. Mary Orem, aged lO4 years, rode
in one OF the professions during. the
Baltimore celebration. She was born
in Baltimore on April 90. l776, being a
daughter of Robert Peake, who came
with the British army to America, but
who deserted and served in the Con-
tinental army as q drummer. Sue has
twenty-five grandchildren and sixty
Observation-Disclosures living.
No place can produce a record Of
longevity equaling that of the Berkshire
hills. Berkshire. Mass, has at present
twenty-eight persons ninety years old
and upward, t%wenty-!our over eighty
and l,549 over seventy. Egremont has
citizens aged ninety-seven and ninety
two, Great Darlington q ninety-eight,
Lanesboro one l02, Lenox one l0t, New
Marlboro one n%inety-six, Adams one
ninety five and another e~ighty-six. Peru
one ninety-three, Richmond n ninety
two and Williamstown n ninety-6ve
With the exception Of his eyesight,
Robert Gibson, of North Missouri, who
8 ia years old, is hale and hearty. He
married when forty.two years of age,
and has been the father Of sixteen
children, ten of whom are living. His
grandchildren number 100, his great
grandchildren l25, and he has three
great great grandchildren. He lives
with his third son, who is the father Of
nineteen children.
AS Bad to Lie
Old Parson S of Come cticut. was q
particular kind of a person. One day
he had a man blowing in his field, and
he went out to see how the work was
getting on. The ground was very stony,
and every time the plow struck a stone