Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
OLD PEOPLE,
From the New York SUM-

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died in he 92d year.
Mrs. SUSANNA Foil, of Greencastle,
Pa, died recently at the age of 81 years.
Mrs. BETSY MASON, of Mt. Morris,
N. Y, is just rounding a century of life.
DAVID LoPEs, veteran of 1912, has
just died in New York city, aged 80.
JOHN j. MARSHALL, great jurist and
writer of Cape Breton, has just died,
aged 81.
Mrs. MARY d. MAXWELL, of Blooming
ton, ILL.,, was in her 93d year when she
died recently.
LAUREL, Del, has lost it's centenarian
in the person of Grace, negress, who
has just died, aged lis.
AT Kingsbridge, N. Y, Mrs. Elizabeth
Berrien died recently, aged go, and Sam
uel Haviland at Rye, aged 81.
Mrs. BETsEY E. WRIGHT died at West
field, n. Y, in her 93d year. She was
the Oldest Presbyterian in the town.
Mrs. JANE G. BrrToN, of New York,
has been buried after busy life of SO
years.
MRS. GILLESPIE, of Morgan county,
KY, is 103 years old, and walks two
miles to church every Sunday.
AT the age Of SO Mrs. Sarah W.
Schureman, sister of the late Senator
Garrett d. Wall, died at Shrewsbury,
N. J.
MRS. SARAH MosE1Y, of Madison,
Ind, was born in North Carolina, Feb
ruary Is, ITO, and is therefore in her
111th year.
MATILDA STEVENSON lived to be 105
years of age before she made a profess
sion of faith, and was baptized at Paris,
KY, recently.
AN old lady, aged So, of Carmel, n
Y, was the chief mourner, and went to
the grave at the funeral of her daughter,
aged 76.
HARRY SKINNER, of Powell county,
KY, has thick hair coming on his bald
head, and has lately cut several teeth, al
though he is nearly 80.
JOHN McREA, of Towanada, had I'M
impaired eyesight up to the day of his
death. He was the oldest inhabitant Of
the village. and died at go.
"AUNT BETTE" LANGHoRN died in
Lexington, Mo-, and Drury Petty in
Benton township, recently. Each had
passed century.
The oldest Mason in the United States
has just died, after enjoying century of
life. John Best, of New Concord, Ohio,
was " years Master Mason.
MARSHALL COUNTY, Tenn, has resi-
dent who has lived within five miles of a
railroad many years, hut has never seen
train or steamboat. He is nearly 60
Mrs. JULIA A. SHARP died recently in
Mannheim township, Pa, IN her 99th
year. She was most happy and cheer
full woman, and a pleasant companion.
The mental vigor of Andrew Norton,
of Elmira, New York, was remarkable to
the day of his death. He was pensioner
of the war of 1912, and died aged SO.
Mrs. JULIA SMITH PARKER, of Glas-
tonbury, Conn.,, celebrated the first
anniversary of her marriage in May,
although she is 88 years of age.
RUTHA SHIPPERS died in the Elkton,
Md, almshouse, aged ITO years, She
was born slave, but had enjoyed fifty
years of freedom, having been manu-
mitted
Mrs. WATY CLARK, of Oswego, n. Z,
still lives at the age of 106 years. She
has been the mother of twelve children,
and, until very recently, had her facul-
ties unimpaired.
BALTIMORE loses another centenarian
in Sarah Springer, who died recently,
aged 103. She leaves thirty-one grand
children and twenty-eight great-grand-
children.
A VIOLENT fall killed, recently, the old
est Indian of the Allegheny reservation,
named John Lewis. He died at Sala-
manca, just as he had completed CEN
fury of life.
The oldest lawyer in Scotland, Charles
Winchester, died on March 81, just as he
had entered his Tooth year. He was born
at Echt, in Aberdeenshire, on February
%, 1871.
EDWIN JACKSON, of Toms River, n. Y.
has just passed his Goth birthday, and
has always enjoyed good health He
was for many years boatman, but has
never been In railroad ear.
ANDREW A1MERs, who was supposed
to bethe oldest printer in Great Britain,
died recently in Edmburg. He quit
work only two years ago, after having
been compositor for seventy-two years.
OLIVER ABEL, SR., is just now suffer
ing with congestion of the lungs from 6
cold caught while ehopping wood on {
mountain lot near his residence al
Elizabethtown, N. Y. He is 81 years old
ADA township, Mich, sincerely
mourns the loss of Ebenezer Swami,
| e. L Il L.
has just died aged los. He was native
of Maine, but one of the oldest settlers
of Michigan.
AT the age of 80, Stephen Thatcher, o
the inventor of the endless apron in pa
paper making machines, and paper wa
first made in continuous sheet In hi
paper mill, and the first order supplie'
from it was that of the Albany Gazette