Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-15
some Very Old PEOPLE.

Mr.. William ii. Warren, of Warrens-
vile, Ohio, 10 ninety-eight years ofage.
and occupied the first log cabin built iri
that city. He made his own garden
last spring. and is In excellent health
and spirits.
Mrs. Nellie Lyon, OF White Chapel
Hill, Ky, Is ninety-five years of age.
She still sews on fine muslin and has no
use for glasses. nspeaking of her early
life she relates many escapes from bears
and Indians.
Near neighbors during their lifetime.
Uncle Timothy Doxsey, of Pearsall's,
J.. 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 ID I02. His wife when she
died was ninety-fve years old. He is
not the only living member Of the family,
but has seven brothers and sisters, whose
united ages are 67l years.
Mrs. Mary Hodgins, of Lucan, 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 z. 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, y. c., has two old but
active citizens. J. w. Miller does his
N nj ala IN nj
seventh year. Bartlett Morgan walks in
and out of town, distance of eighteen
miles, although he is eighty-four years
old.
The Indian chief Louis Walso, who
lives at Lake George, Ii over 100 years
old. The British governmt mt has just
paid him IA long-expccted pension for
services rendered rs Chief uf 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
his wife seventy-fve years, dying at
1875. The 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 slave in Hillsdale. N. T., and
said he SAW Washington in l765. He
leaves q daughter eighty-six years O
age and son seventy.four.
The Rev. Noah NJ. Wells, the oldest
Presbyterian clergyman in the country,
died recently in Erie, Mich, at the age
of ninety-eiRht. H. preached in Eastern
New York until 1925, when he went TO
Detroit and organized the FIRST Presby-
terian church there.
Mrs. Peter King. who died recently al
OtseRo, n. Y, was Just rounding a CEN
tury of life. She was o 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, 10 get groceries.
Her eyesight was as perfect up 10 the
day of her death as It had been in her
youth. She was the Oldest person in
Otsego county.
After Matilda jackson, OF Paris. KY,
had closed a century of life, she left
what she called the white Methodist
church and connected herself with the
colored Christian church, and was i'm
mersed in pond.
Moses Howe, of Dracut, Mass, is now
in his ninety-second year. He preached
his first sermon sixty-six years ago. On
a recent Sunday afternoon he preached
from the same text. and occupied an
hour and half. He has married I, ,82C
couples and buried 2.530 person..