Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-14
OUR CE~NTENARIANS.

1oAgazlpes and perlodlcals -
OUR CENTENARIANS.
People Who Have Optlived Three
score Years and Ten.
[Frsm the New York SUM-
Daniel Doubles died at PentieId
Pa., at LOG.
Mrs. Nancy Bailey, of Gallipolis
-O.,died at 102.
Mrs. Ann Collins, of Boyd county
KY, claims to be 116.
g The last word Of John NJ. Rebholds
ofReading. Pa, aged 10l, was "beer.'
: Mrs. lola Whitcomb. Of Cshasset
. Macs, died Just as she was complet'
ing 100.
- John Lev1nson. the oldest man il
Monmouth county, n. j., is hale and
hearty at 1O5.
The ninety-ninth birthday of Thos.
nRobeus, of Wilton. N. j., has been
sceiebrated.E
Mrs. Mary N. Brister, of Washing.
stsnsPa., will complete a century ii
she lives until June.
The oldest person in Charlotte. N.
c., is dead al 104. This was Esths
Wallace, colored.
SMYRNA, Del, has its ~centenarian
AinsArs.aAun DeRry, who has passed
hsf f02d birthday.
Margaret Dotterwich enjoyed lOC
years'o of single ~biessedness. and then
died at Paterson, N. j.
When$eightY-one, Ann Mchenns
emigrated from ireland. She lied al
los, q few days AGO., in this city.
Eli Reed, of Bridgew alter, Pa, is in
his m~nety-ninth year, and only re-
Gently lost q sister who was l09.
4 Mrs. Mary Jane Roselle,o of Oswego,
= n. Y, is as straight and symmetrical
l as q girl, Though she is 1O5.
After being residents OF New York
over thirty years, Phebe Davis died
At 1OS, and Caroline Levy at 100.
Welcome Cole, of Niagara FaIis,ex-
hibits with pride n wooden pillow
which he made in 1920. He is ninety.
Mrs. Fruits and her husband,
AGeorge, we're the oldest couple al
' Alamo, Iud. He died at 113 and she
last 1OO.Z
Hugh Ross, of North lebanon, N.
$H.. is cutting wood and doing his
own barn work, being hale at ninety.
John D. Stout, of Mercer county,
N. J.,<and Judith Ridlon, of Hollis,
Me, were each ninety-seveu at death.
After remaining in the ministry
over seventy years, DIR. Jacob lde, Of
West Midway, Mass, died at ninety
five.
Without experience of disease. and
ignorant Of the taste OF nostrums,
Mrs. Diza Richardson died at Chicago
ut ninety-three.
One OF the three oldest native
born residents of Concord, n. H.,
died in Mcpherson Of Mrs. Sophia
White, in her ninety-second year..
81 cast this, my last vote for de-
mscracy, aud right" said Michael
J Ryan, of Fonda, N. V. at the last
town meeting. He is ninety-nine.
Lewis Rockwell, of Green, Pa,
z after living over a century, has ap-
3 plied to the courts to compel his
Z sens, who are well.to-do. to support
5 Elm.
Dancing on her Tooth birthday was
Q feat by Mrs. Doziah B~loodgood, OF
Perth Amboy, N. J. She soon after
ward met her death through a fall.
Enoch Coffrin, Of Waterbury, W.,
danced all old-fashioned breakdown
on his Seth birthday with agility. A
recent feat was to saw a cord of
wood in nine hours.
Jane Weaver died at Maidstone,
England, aged lO5. Her husband
! died ten years ago, aged 100; her
father was fO3 at deaths and her grand
father lived to 105.
III France there are 1874 individuals
ever 100 years old. There are ia
widows, forty widowers, twenty-one
- HmAvhoztnI HrCoa- fhroA hIshQnl0 mud
i've bachelors.
Although Mrs. Mary Way, of Lam
Aingburgh, N. Y, had completed a
sewing without the aid of glasses a
few days before her death.
Robert, Wallace, of St. Johns, N.
B., was 102 when he died. He joined
the British army at the time of the
to Waterloo in 1915.
At leap year ball Gov. Roberts,
Of Texas, danced in homespun with
seven young ladies, and the next
day COMMITTED two death sentences.
He is nearly eighty.
al Mrs. Mary M. Brister, of Washing
ton, Pa, is entering her centennial
year. Her father walked from Phil
iadelphla to Cincinnati to visit a rel
ative whom he was 103.
Conrad Hayer was the first male
white child born in Waldoboro, Mo.
He walked to a village, distant five
miles, when he was 103, and was
closing his 107tn year WREN he died.
EBMrs. Eleanor McGrae, of Keene, N.
H., took q husband in 1872, and part
ed with him three years ago, when he
died at ninety. She had a fall the
other day, which caused her death at
ninety-four.
The last p%ensioner on the rolls
known to have been with Commodore
Perry at the victory on Lake Erie
has just died. He loved military life,
aud was buried with the honors OF
war.
Sir Moses Monteflore, the eminent
Jewish banker, has celebrated his
ninety-sixth birthday. He was
knighted by the Queen in 1887, the
year of her accession to the throne
and made a baronet ten years later.
At the Harwinton Comm fair
last year, Mrs. Ursula Humphreville
drove a moving machine after riding
: eight miles in a wagon. She Wa.
then just closing a century. La hel
youth Sne was the Ak OF sever
sisters.
Mary Jerome, of New London
: Conn, vas SCI away for safety dur
ing the war of 1872, when British
ships blockaded Decatur's fleet in tn,
harbor !; but that was the only tim,
she was beyond the town limits. Sh,
is just closing a century of life, ant
was never i'll a railroad car.
Jeremiah Anstill, who died il
Clarke county, Ala, a few days ago
aged ninety, was the hero of a tigh
with the warriors of Tecumseh. Il
1913, while boating on the Alabam
river, eleven Indians shot out fror
the shore i'll a canoe, and a hand-tc
hand fight ensued with the butts c
the rifles. The story runs that All
still Drained the chief and browne
the ten others.
The Delaware peach crsp this seaso
will, it's estimated, reach 4 ,OO0. 900 ba:
ksts, and the growers will make a pro
- ovor q S0A 00O The orop tor 1ST;