The Newtown bee., 1880-11-10
RICH IN YEARS.
Anecdotes of People Who Have Lived .
 Century or a Little Less.

] h oldest person in Boyd county, K ~ Ann Collins, a mulatto woman, aged ll0 years.
 M. Chevenil at the age of ninety. five is giving a course of lectures on the science of chemistry in Paris.
 Although in her ninety-ninth year, Mrs. Eaglin, of Carroll county, Ky, re- cently walked two miles to circus.
 Greenfield, H., boasts of citizen ninety-two years of age who has never tasted liquor and was never in a lawsuit.
 Columbia county. New York, names Dolly Sexton, New Lebanon Shak- cross. who is 104 years of age, as her oldest resident.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Walker died recently at Phillipshurg, Pa., aged I07 years. and Benjamin Heacock at Brazil, Ind ., at the age of 103.
 For forty years Betsy Taggart, of Mid dletowp, k. l., had been bedridden, with no semblance of disease. She died recently. aged ninety-one years.
 Annie Torrance, of Hickman, Ky, had closed century of life, but still kept her place as housemaid. She re- eentv dropped dead while washing dishes.
 Kalamazoo. Mich, is proud of John Bodette. who. although l03 years of age. is still full of vitality. He dances like boy, and recently walked twelve miles in four hours.
 graduate of West Point military academy in tbe person of Wright Mer- rick of the class of lS22 He is the only survivor of his class.
 Mrs. Frances E. Wyatt for eighty years has been member of the Metho- dist church. She has seen a century of life. and still lives at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
 The oldest member of the Masonic order living is Marcus Richardson, of Bangor. Me, who has belonged to the order enty-seven years. He is just closing century.
 Mary Welch, of Seymour, Conn.,, was the last of fourteen sisters; she was l07 years of age when she died @ short time ago. Thi, centenarian died of old age rather than any physical ailment.
 The. oldest man in Pennsylvania is Abram Johnston, why is hale and hearty Ut the age of l07 years. He has full possession of his faculties, and does con- siderable daily labor.
 Mrs. Phoebe Peck has celebrated her centennial at her home in Westfield, New York. Ot Ter thirty-three guests four had just passed ninety years, and all of the others were approaching that age.
 Mrs. Wyman Osgcod, of Warner, N. H., has passed her l0lst birthday, and Mrs. Sarah Ducas, of Voliua township, Cass county, is ll0 years of age, and believed to be oldest person in the State.
 David Smith, of Franklin, Pa, cele- brated his close of a century of life by dividing among his children his fortune. He died soon alter the act, but not until he was assured that the division was acc 'ptable to all concerned.
 The Hon. Mark Dennett, of Kittery, Me-, now in his ninety-fourth year, is the oldest surviving member of the legisla- lures of Massachusetts and Maine. He is in excellent health. and retains his mental and physical powers In a remark able degree.
 James Ludlow, of Bergen, New YoI k, recently took a trip to Oneida on Q visit to his daughter. He is l03 years of age, and Is a hale and hearty old gentleman He still saws wood, milks cows, and at- tends generally to outdoor affairs. His faculties are all preserved.
 Alexander Outlaw, of Laurens county, Is ninety-three years of age, but still takes his place daily among the cotton pickers. In a single day recently he picked no pounds He has been mar ried four times, and his youngest child is now only five years old.
 Miss Betsey Roath, of Greenville, Conn, celebrated the centennial anni- versary of her birth at her residence, which stands upon a portion of the grant ot four square miles made to Robert Roath, her ancestor, over two centuries ago. She is iu good health, and reads without the aid of glasses.
 James Clephane, ninety years of age lives il Washington and is the oldest resident there. He acted as compost tor on tue first edition of" Waverley," and also read proof with Sir Walter Scott. He came here in 1877, and ss member of the Washington artillery he helped fire salute when Lafayette left this cour try for the last time.
 In Woodhury, Md, lives woman who was born April go. I776. Her memory and hearing are excellent, but she has been blind four years. Her hair, once gray, is now turning black again. She has not tooth in her head. She has no fewer than twenty-five grand children and nearly sixty great gr nd children. her oldest great. grandchild being widow, aged twenty-four.
 Mrs. Mary Orem, aged l04 years, rode in one ot the processions during the Baltimore celebration. She was porn in Baltimore on April 22, l776, being a daughter of Robert Peake, who came with the British army to America but who deserted and served in the Con- tinental army as a drummer. She has twenty five grandchildren and sixty great-gran3children living.
 No place can produce a record of longevity .qualing that of the Berkshire hills. Berkshire, Mass, has at present twenty-eight persons ninety years old and upward, twenty-four over eighty and SIS over seventy. Egremont has citizens agCd ninety-seven and ninety two, Great Burlington one ninety-eight, Lancsboro one l02. Lenox one los, New Marlboro one ninety-six, Adams one ninety five and another eighty-six. Peru one ninoty-three, Richmond one ninety two aud Williamstown one ninety-five
 With the exception of his eyesight, Robert Gibson, of North Missouri, who IA years old, is hale and hearty. He married when forty-two years of age, and has been the father of sixteen children, ten of whom are living. His grandchildren number l30, his great grandchildren l25. and he has three great great grandchildren. He lives with his third son, who is the father of nineteen children.
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