The Princeton union., 1880-07-22
VERY OLD PEOPLE.
Some Remarkable Agesand Still More Re-
markablo Facts. H.

VERY OLD PEOPLE.
Some Remarkable Ages and Still More Re.
~ markable Facts.
Mrs. Betsy Mason, of Mount Morris.
N. Y, is just rounding century of lite.
Laurel, Del, has lost It's centenarisn in
the person of Grace, negress, who has
just died, aged 115.
Mrs. Gillasdie, of Morgan county. Kv,.
Is LOG years old, and walks two miles to
church every Sunday. .".0
Matilda Stevenson lived to be 1O5 wears
OF age before she made profession OF
faith, and was baptized at Paris, Ky.. re-
Gently. dr. :.
Ruthia Shippers died in the Elktou.
Nd, almshouse aged 10 years. She
was born slave, but had enjoyed fifty
years Of freedom, having been manumit-
Mrs. Waty Clark, of Oswego, N. Y,
still lives at the age of 106. She has been
the mother Of twelve children, and, until
very recently, had her faculties un-
impaired. ...r ......i i.-.- ,....
Baltimore loses another centenarian in
Sarah Springer, who died recently, aged
lob. She leaves thirty-one grand child
ren and twenty-eight great grand child
ren.
A violent fall killed recently the old
est Indian of the Alleghany reservation.
named John Lewis. He died at Sals-
manca just as he had completed a cen
tury of life.
The Oldest lawyer in Scotland, Charles
Winchester, died on March ~, just as
he had entered his tooth year. He was
born at Echt, in Aberdeenshire, on Feb
ruary %, 1881. 49,, 49,.
Ada Township, Mich, sincerely mourns
the loss of Ebenezer Swami, farmer and
most estimable man, who has lust died
aged 1O5. 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 eiqhtv-two
years OF age and the youngest forty-eight.
Mrs Brassett of Grand Rapids, Mich, is
just rounding century Of life. She ,s
III good health, with unlmpaired intel
lect.
According to the Pait, an actor who is
acentenarian maybe nightly seen at Toul-
ouse. He is comic actor namen Giraffe
tot, and was born on the second of July.
1880, and made his debut when fifteen
years of age, when the revolution was at
its height. He is said to be still anus
ing. . :
When Hester PresburY died in Balt1-
more city the family of Streets sincerely
mourned. She had long passed the cen
tury line, and had been q faithful serv-
ant, nursing the whole family from their
grandfather down. When the proclama-
ton OF the emancipation set the slaves
free, old Aunt Hester left the Streets and
went to SHIFT for herself. She leaves an
orphan infant aged eighty. Il.
The Madrid Ep0ch announces the death
at Gijon, in Northern SPAN, of gentle
man who was 10 years old. He success
fully wlthstood 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 q
comcly maiden Of sweet seventeen, whose
union with him resulted in adding
two sturdy boys TO his already numer
Gus family of eight and twenty sons, the
fruits of his previous matrimonial ali-
ances. Once at the early age of fifteen,
he was i'll of fever, since when he. has
known no malady or even inconsiderable
allment. For many years past he has
eaten but one solid meal, at midday, in
every twenty-fours, his breakfast and
supper consisting OF q Gill of raw spirits,
swallowed at draft, AID taken without
food.
Mrs. Sarah Mosely, of Madison, Ind,
was born in North Carolina, February
Is, ITO, and is therefore in her 111th
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 smallpox
and the pay due HIM was never received
by bis family, a fact that still worries
Mrs. Mosely. Mrs. Mosely was playing
with dolls when she was married, which
Y as 10 her thirteenth year, and two years
latter with a child OF her own. She
reared ten children, the Oldest living be-
ing eighty,six and the youngest fifty.
When she was 100 years old she rode
horseback and delighted in long walks.
In that year she fell, injuring ner thigh,
and has since been unable to walk. In
her youth she was the belle of Kentucky
Two years ago her hail, which at that
time was whitened with age, returned to
its original color-black.
A NAN who had o bad cold said he had