Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-07-22
VERY OLD PEOPLE.
Some Remarkable Ages and Still More Re.
markable Facts.

markaDl0 Facts.
Mrs. Betsy Mason, of Mount Morris,
N. Y, is just rounding a century of lite.
Laurel, Del, has lost Its centenarian in
the person of Grace, a negress, who has
just died, aged 115.
Mrs. Gillcsdie, of Morgan county, Ky,
is 1916 years old, and walks two miles to
church every Sunday.
Matilda Stevenson lived to be 1O5 years
of age before she made a profession of
faith, and was baptized at Paris, KY, re-
Gently.
Ruthia Shippers died in the Elkton,
Nd, almshouse aged 10 years. She
was born slave, but had enjoyed fifty
years of freedom, having been manumit-
ted. g..
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.
Baltimore loses another centenarian in
Sarah Springer, who died recently, aged
103. She leaves thirty-one grand-child-
rem and twenty-eight great-grand-chi
ren.
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 GEN.
tury 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 Feb
ruary %, 1881.
Ada Township, Mich, sincerely mourns
the loss of EbeneZer Swami, farmer, and
most estimablc man, who has just died
aged 105. He was native of Name, but
one of the oldest settlers in Michigan.
The proud mother of seventeen chll.
dren, the eldest of whom Is eighty two
years OF age and the youngest forty eight,
Mrs. Brassett of Grand Rapids, Mich, Is
just rounding a century of life. She Is
in good health, with unlmpaired intel
lect.
According to the Iait, an actor who is
acentenarian maybe nightly seen at Toul-
ouse. He is comic actor namen Graffe-
tot, ana was born on the second OF July,
1850, 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 Baltl-
more city the family of Streets sincerely
mourned. She had long passed the CEN
tury line, and had been faithful serv-
ant, nursing the whole family from their
grandfather down. When the proclama-
tion 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.
The Madrid Epoch announces the death
at Gijon, in Northern SPAN, of gentle.
man who was liz years old. He success
fully withstood 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 a
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 alli-
ances. Once at the early age of fifteen,
he was i'll of fever, since when he has
known NO malady or even incOnsiderable
ailment. For many years past he has
eaten but one solid meal, at mid day, in
every twenty -fours, his breakfast and
supper consisting OF gill of raw spirits,
swallowed at draft, a. d 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.
ten. He died subsequently of smallpox,
and the pay due hlm was never received
by his family, fact that still worries
Mrs. Mosely. Mrs. Mosely was playing
with dolls when she was married, which
as In her thirteenth year, and two years
latter with 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, iRjuring ner thigh
and has since been unable to walk. Ir
/ her youth she was the belle of Kentucky
Two years ago her haii, which at tha
time was whitened with age, returned Il
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