The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
OLD PEOPLE.
Gossip About Centenarians.

l., IL just rounding a century or lie.
Laurel, Del, has lost its centenarian
IN the person of Grace, negress, who |
has just died, aged lis.
Mrs. Gillespie, of Morgan County, KY,
is lob years old, and walks two miles to
church every Sunday.
Matilda Stevenson lived to be 1861
years of age before she made a profess
sion of faith, and was baptized at Paris,
KY, on recent Sunday.
Aunt Bette Langhorn died in Lex
lngton, Mo-, and Drury Petty in Benton
township, Mo. Each had passed cen
fury.
Ruthia Shippers died in the Elkton
(Md. } almhouse, aged 10 years. She
was born slave, but had 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 faculties un-
impaired.
Baltimore loses another centenarian
IN Sarah Springer, who died recently,
aged lob. She leaves thirty-one grand
children, and twenty-eight great-grand
children.
A violent fall killed recently the Oldest
Indian of the Allegany Reservation,
named John Lewis. He died at Sala-
manca just as he had completed cen
fury of life.
Ada Township, Mich. sincerelymourns
the loss of Ebenezer Swami, farmer,
n I Il c4
died, aged 105. He was native OF
Maine, but one Of the oldest settlers in
Michigan.
Jim Ingraham, of Wynn's Mill, Henry
county, Ca, is said to be a century and
quarter old He is very infirm and
totally blind, but can still make as good
a bark collar as mule ever looked
through, and really seems to enjoy the
occupation.
Although Aaron McKenny, of Maine,
had lived over a century, he knocked
down man who had suggested the APP
pointment of a guardian for him, and
this assault brought on his first lawsuit.
He acted as his own counsel. He died
recently, aged 102. He had never tasted
liquor or been in railway train, never
sent or received telegram, and was
never out Of his native town.
The Madrid Epoch announces the
death at Gijon, in northern Spain, of a
gentleman who was 112 years old He
successfully withstood the wear and tear
of five successive marriages during his
long life, and, indeed, welded bliss may
fairly be assumed to have agreed with
him. His last wedding day was also the
| eighty-nlnth anniversary of his birth,
upon which festive occasion he espoused
comedy maiden of "sweet seventeen, "
whose union with him resulted in the
addition of two sturdy boys to his al
ready numerous family of six-and- twenty
sons, the fruits OF his previous matrimo-
NAL alliances. Once, at the early age of
fifteen, he was i'll Of fever, since which
he had known no malady or even incon-
siderable ailment. For many years past
he has eaten but one solid meal, at mid
day, in every twenty-four. hours, his
breakfast and supper consisting of a gill
of raw spirits, swallowed at draught
and taken without food.
Mrs. Sarah Mosely, of Madison, Ind. =,
was born in North Carolina, Feb. Is,
ITO, and is therefore in her 111th year.
Mrs. Mosely was playing with dolls when
she was married, which was in her thir-
teenth year, and two years later with a
child of her own. She reared ten child
rem, the oldest living being sc, and the
youngest So When she was 106 years
old she rode horseback and delighted in
long walks. In that year she fell, injur-
ing her thigh, and has since been I'M
able to walk. In her youth she was the
belle of Kentucky. Two years ago her
hair, which at that time was whitened
with age, returned to it's original color
black.
Jane Douglass died in New York city
aged 101 years and months. At he
bedside, when she died, stood her grand
children, one of them over so years old,
and two of her daughters, but both were
too aged to do more than comfort the
dying woman by their presence. The
old lady's faculties stayed by her to the
last. Her eyesight was good, she could
read without spectacles, and could de-
cipher letters on signs at longer distances
than could any of her grandchildren.
She lived heartily and well. She slept
regularly seven hours at night, and dur
ing the last twenty years enjoyed doze
in the rocking chair before the window
every afternoon. She ascribed her Ion
gevity to the regularity of her habits.