The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-17
Some Very Old Peonle.

Mr.. William III. Warren, of Warrens-
vile, Ohio, is ninety-eight years of age,
and occupied the first log cabin built in
that city. He made his own garden
last spring, and is in excellent health
and spirits.
Mrs. Nellie Ligon, OF White Chapel
Hill, KY, is ninety-five years of age.
She still sews on fine muslin and has no
use for glasses. In speaking of her early
life she. relates many escapes from bears
and Indians.
Near neighbors during their lifetime,
Uncle Timothy Doxsey, of Pearsall's,
l.. l., and Zachariah Story, of Christian
Hook, were born on the same day. They
are now ninety. three years of age, and
both spry and hearty.
Lewis Rockwell lives in Lackawaxen,
Pa, and is 102. His wife when she
died was ninety-fve years old. He is
not the only living membtr L of the family,
but has seven brothers and sisters, whose
united ages are 57l years.
Mrs. Mary Hodgins, of fLucan, Toronto,
died recently aged ninety-one years
She settled in that region forty seven
years ago, when the country was an un-
broken wilderness, and was the only
white woman thereabouts.
Annie E. Potter died in the New York
Baptist home for aged people after liv-
ing long past her centennial anniver-
sary. When ten years of age she was
kidnapped from school in India and
sent in ship from Calcutta to New
York.
Statesville, N. c., has two old but
active citizens. j. w. Miller does his
own blowing, although in his eighty
seventh year. Bartlett Morgan walks in
and out of town, distance of eighteen
miles, although he is eighty-fo four years
old.
The Indian chief Louis Walso, who
lives at Lake George, is over 100 years
old, The British governmt mt has just
paid. him a long-expccted pension for
services rendered as chief of the Abene.
quis in the contest of 1919.
The father of the Reverend William
Robertson, who died recently in Bold
Camp Greek, Va, did not marry until
he was fifty years OF age. and lived with
MS wife seventy-five years, dying at
l25. Ihe minister was in his ninety.
seventh year when he died.
"Old Pompey Phillips" colored
man, died at Berkshire, and is supposed
to have been 100 years of age. He was
once a slave in Hillsdale. N. Y, and
said he saw Washington in 1855. He
leaves a daughter eighty-six years
age and son seventy. -four.
The Rev. Noah M. Wells, the oldest
Presbyterian clergyman in the country
died recently in Erie, Mich, at the age
of ninety eight. He preached in Eastern
New York until 1925, when he went to
Detroit and organized the first Presby-
terian church there.
John Widner died in Rochester re-
Gently just as he had finished century
of life. He was born in New jersey,
but went to Newtown, near Elmira,
when seven years of age. In 1917 he
was employed as overseer over fifty
slaves that worked the farm of n Mr.
Rose, in Monroe county, New York
He learned the Indian language when q
boy from his Indian playfellows, and did
not forget it.
Mrs. Peter King, who died recently at
Otsego, n. Y, was just rounding a cen
tury OF life. She was a native of Ire
land, and settled in this country when
there were no railroads or stages, in days
when people used to go to Albany, a
distance of eighty miles, to get groceries
Her eyesight was as perfect up to the
day OF ler death as it had been in her
youth. She was the Oldest person in
Otsego county.
After Matilda jackson, of Paris, Ky,
had closed q century of life, she LETT
what she called the white Methodist
church and connected herself with TIE
colored Christian church, and was i'm.
mersed in pond.
Moses Howe, of Dracut, Mass, is now
in hisninety second year. He preached
his first sermon sixty-six years ago. On
Il recent Sunday afternoon he preached
from the same text, and occupied an
hour and half He has married ,92O
couples and buried 2. $50 persona.