Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-06-10
VERY OLD PEOPLE.
Some ltemarkabIe Ages and stiii More
Remark able Facts.

some
Remarkable Facts.
Mrs. Betsey Mason, of Mount Morris,
n Y, is Just rounding century OF life.
Laurel, Del, has lost its centenarian
in the person of Grace, n negr6ss, who
has just died, aged lis.
Mrs. Gillespie. of Morgan county,
Ky, is l06 years old, and walks two
miles to church every Sunday.
Matilda Stevenson lived to be los
years of age before she made profess
sion of faith, and was baptized mt Paris,
Ky, recently.
Ruthia Shippers died in the Elkton,
Md, almshouse. aged Il0 years. She
was born n 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 l06. She has
been the mother of twelve children, and,
until very recently, had her faculties
unimpaired.
Baltimore loses another centenarian
in Sarah Springer, who died recently,
aged 1903. She leaves thirty-one grand
children and twenty-eight great-grand-
children.
A violent fall killed recently the old
est Indian OF the Allegany reservation,
named John Lewis. He died at Sala-
manca just as he had completed a CEN
tury OF life.
The Oldest lawyer in Scotland, Charles
Winchester, died on March 27, Just rs
he had entered his Tooth year. He was
born at Echt, in Aberdeenshire, on
February %, 1881.
Ada Township, Mich, sincerely
rnourns the loss of EbeneZer Swami, a
farmer, and most estimable man, who
has Just died aged los. He was native
of Maine, but one of the Oldest settlers
in Michigan.
The proud mother of seventeen chill
dren, the eldest OF whom is eighty-two
years of age and the youngest forty
eight, Mrs. Brassett, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, is just rounding'a century of life.
She is in good health. with unimpaired
intellect.
According to the Pdit, an actor who
is a centenarian may be nightly seen at
Toulouse. He is a comic actor named
Grafetot, and was born on the second OF
July, l760, and made his debut when
fifteen years of age, when the revolution
was at its height. He is said to be still
amusing.
When Hester Presbury died in Balti-
more city the family of Streets sincerely
mourned. She had long ago passed the
century line, and hid been n faithful
servant, nursing the whole family, from
their grandfather down. When the
the proclamation of emancipation set
the slaves free, old Aunt Hester lett the
Streets and went to shift for herself.
She leaves An orphan infant aged
eighty.
The Madrid Epoch announces tho
death at Gijon, in Northern Spain, of a
gentleman who was liz 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 ninth anniversary of his
birth, upon which festive occasion he
espoused a comely maiden of "sweet
seventeen" whose union with him re-
suited in the addition of two sturdy
boys to his already numerous family of
six-and-twenty sons, the fruits of his
previous matrimonial alliances. Once,
at the early age of fifteen, he was i'll of
fever, since which he has known no
malady or even inconsiderable ailment.
For many years past he has eaten but
one solid meal, at midday, in every
twenty -four hours, his breakfast and
supper consisting of gill of raw
spirits, swallowed at draught and
taken without food.
Mrs. Sarah Mosely, of Madison, Ind, g.,
was born in North Carolina February
Is, ITO, and is therefore in her llIth
year. One of her brothers, of whom she
had seven, David Ballou, served seven
years in the Colonial army during the
war of the Revolution, and was captain
and aide-de-camp to General Washing.
ton. He died subsequently of small
pox, and the pay due him was never re-
ceived by his family, fact that still
worries Mrs. Mosely. Mrs. Mosely
was playing with dolls when she was
married. which was in her thirteenth
year, and two years later with child
of her own. She reared ten children,
the Oldest living being eighty-six and
the youngest fifty. When she was 100
years old she rode horseback and de-
lighted in long walks. In that year she
fell, injuring her thigh, and has since
been unable 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 its
original color-black.