The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-08-12


Score Years.
Mrs.J. II. Gibbins, ofMount Sterling,
KY, is l0S.
Sallie Gray, a colore1 woman pf
Meridian, Miss, is III.
William Baylis, of Plainfeld, L. L.,
is ninety five, and his wife ninety seven.
The baby Is sixty-six.
Mrs. frankie Williams, OF Mullen
burg county, KY, Is in her lO4th year.
w. F. Hicks, of Westville, L. l., is
in his tinotieth year, and has not a
gray hair in his head.
AWaterloo veteran, named Cornelius
Woods, died at Halifax recently in his
ninety-third year.
Admiral Westphall, the Oldest COM
missioned officer in the British navy,
died recently, aged ninety-hine.
London, Ont, has two centenarians--
Christy Mclean, aged los, and Mrs.
Diana Calyers, aged lOl.
For forty years Mrs Abram Scott, of
Hempstead, j. l.. has been called
Granny Scott" She is now ninety
seven.
A body recently found in the canal
Trenton, N. j., proved to be Thomas
Coogan, who was in his ninety-flst
year.
Henry Green and his wife are inmates
Of the Suffolk county O. I.,) almshUuse.
He is IO4 years old, and she is ninety
four.
Mrs. Mary Simms lived in Quebec
when the city was bcsieged by the
American troops, and was born there
l07 years ago.
Near Rutland, VT, lives Mrs. Moses
Lester, who does all her own house,
work, although she has lived a hundred
years.
Although Mrs. Sally Wilder, of Pitts
field, Ohio, is in her lOlst year, she at
tended the Sunday. school festival held
recently.
Mrs. John Wcllstcad, of Fur Rock
away, is still active, in good health, and
attends to her domestic duties daily, al
though she is lOl years of age.
The eldest practicing lawyer in New
York State is Argyll Gibbs, of Roches-
ter. He is in his ninety-third year.
He has had six sons, all Of whom have
been admitted to the bar.
Mrs. Catnarine Roberts, of North Al
fred, Me-, is brilliant member of So
ciety and enjoys excellent health. She
celebrated her centennial on the ninth
of last April.
Cali that I am Intellectually and
morally" said the bishop of Mar
chester, Il owe to my mother. Mrs.
Fraser has just died of paralysis at the
age of ninety years.
Nicholas Manet was l0l years old
when he died at Meadvilln, Pa.
One hundred and twenty-three chill
dren, grandchildren, great-grandchil-
dren, and Observation-Disclosures
belong to a Mr.. Shearer, of Planters
vile, Ala, who is ninety-six.
When Springfield, Mass, had but
4,00O inhabitants, Elijah Blake made it
his home. He died there recently in
his ninety-sixth year. He was an ex-
member of the State legislature.
John Marsh, of Wawayanda, N. Y,
although ninety years of age, is pos"
sessed of u robust and vigorous con-
stitution, and has nearly all his teeth
in as sound state when he was a
young man.
Mrs. Sarah Sanford, of Baldwin's, N.
Y, is in her ninetieth year and of unim-
paired mental powers. Two of her sons
are Methodist preachers, and two of her
daughters married Methodist preach
ers.
Matthew Robinson, of Lafayette, Ind,
is 100 years of age. He says he took
the first boat through the Lockport,
N. Y, locks; that he went to sea at
thirty years of age, and followed that
vocation fifty years, and fc- forty-three
years ran on the Erie canal. He never
wore spectacles, never carried a cane,
and never was sick.