Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-09-23
VERY OLD PEOPLE.



Preservation Of Beth Bedy and Mind.
James Stone is Louisville, KY.
man, l03 years Of age, who has had
eleven wives.
Mrs. Thomas Adams, Of ofBloomington,
ILL.,, has descendants TO the fifth genera
ton, and is ninety-seven years of age.
Joseph Muncy died at Little Wash
in gton. Pa. just as he had completed
century life.
Mrs. Lille Peabody, of Quincy, Ill,
was ninety-one when she died, and Ben
jamin Hickey of Ten Mile. Pa, l0l.
In 1893 Julia Wilson was a slave in
Philadelphia, and thirteen years of age.
She is therefore one hundred years of
age.
Near Saratoga, in Corinth, N. Y,
Abigail Bramer recently met her death
by an accident at the age of ninety
eight years.
Mrs. Joanna Boulger died recently
Chilicothe, Ohio, aged ninety-two, and
Abraham Stewart at indianapolis aged
l0I.
Tucson, Arizona, has two centenari-
ans, Mexicans. born in Sonora-Bascual
Cruz, ll0years old, and Jesus Ohledo,
100 years old.
Mrs. Margaret Dodson, of Houston
county, Texas, glories in the fact that
she has ffty-one great grandchildren
living.
After living ninety-three years, An
drew Shafer of Allegheny, Pa, was
strangled TO death by robbers, who en-
tered his dwelling in the night for
plunder.
Mrs. Margaret Kale, of Reading, Pa,
was l07 years OF age on a recent Wednes-
day.
The sixth ward, of Saginaw City,
Mich, claims French woman of ITO
years of age, who planted, cultivated
and dug two acres of potatoes last sea-
son.
Mrs. Sarah Moseley, of Madison, Ind,
is enjoying visit from her son, whom
she has not seen in forty-seven years.
Mrs. Moseley is Ill years old.
Sixteen soldiers met in Paris, KY,
recently, whose united ages were 1890
years, or an average of eighty-six and
sev"n-eighths years. The Oldest was
ninety-six, and the youngest eighty
two.
I'm not at all tired" said Alio, of
Tylersburg, Pa, as she sat down in her
sons house, after n walk of seven and a
half miles-and she is in her l07th
year.
Mrs. Eaglin, Kentucky lady of Car
roll county, was always a great lover OF
the circus. She is ninety eight years OF
age, but recently walked two miles TO
attend one.
Mrs. Hannah Cox, of Helderness. n.
H., has celebrated her lO4th birthday.
She goes all about the house without
assistance, and reads without glasses.
Mrs. Rebecca Frost. of Hart county,
Ga, tells stories of the Revolutionary
war. She is l07 years of age and still
/ splendid health, retaining all he fac
ulties.
When the grandmother of n.
Doak Of Stockton, Cal, was a century
old she made him a pair of woolen socks.
She died recently at Wythe county. Va,
aged l03 years.
With onIv N sorxans ne oo,,non;or
old Mrs. Hats6ed lives in her quiet
home in Philade lphia. She has passed
a century in years, is very feeble and al
most helpless. and likes seclusion.
Miss Mary Walker. of Phillipsburg, N
J., claims to be l07 years of age. and
says it is all owing to her remaining an
old maid. Family cares. she says. art
the ruin of the health of thousands.
Muskegon, Mich. is proud of Mrs
Honora Hogan, who is as lively as the
youngest. reads, knits and sews without
glasses. has splendid appetite, and
walks TO church regularly each Sunday
at the age Of ninety-6ve.
Benjamin Fish, of Trenton. N. j., al.
though ninety-iour years OF age, was AT
active business man to the day OF hi.
death. He died recently while eating
breakfast. He was the first man to burn
stove coal In Trenton.
Troy, N. Y, is the home of Mrs
Elvira Crabb. who although over eighty
years OF age, is still teaching private
school, over which she has presided for
the last fifty years. She has taught fouI
generations of one fami
karsac, the old French trader. died
in Bay City. Mich, aged 100 years. HI
was an old stager. knew the trails of tn,
Northwest when they ran through ar
almost unbroken Wilderness. and fought
on the staff of General Lewis Cass.
George Heisely, of Harrisburg, Pa.
died recently In his ninety-first year
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