The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
-S0ME yEBY OLD
Psrsom wso Have Lived 4 csnturs And

who died recently, enjoyed lCs years OF
this life.
One of the pioneers of Genoa, Mich,
David Hight, died as he was closing a
century OF life.
Mrs. Eunice r. Sweat, Of Belmont, n.
H., Is lOi years old, and has lived ! IN that
town ninety years.
The oldest person in Washington
county. Pa, is Mrs. Mary Newman, who
will be 100 j. ars OF age in jane.
Mrs. Ellen Hanly celebrated the AN.
niyersary of her Tooth birthday in Chi
cago. She has never worn EYEGLASSES.
At the age Of 1906, Philip S .Gcorgc, Of
Crosse Point, Mich, went in a wagon 10
Detroit to draw his pension as Il yetcra"
Of 1912.
Ever since the indian war Nathan
Cook has lived in Terrell county, Ga.
He is lO2 years old, and yet he earns his
daily bread.
Old Uncle Abe was a negro who was
found dead ina garden at Point Pleasant,
West Va, recently, and believed to BE-
ll2 years of age.
Mrs. William James, OF Brampton,
Ontario, celebrated the close of a cen
tury of life 10y a grand reception, and
died five days later.
A colored woman OF Chester, Pa, aged
ninety-six, went TO Salisbury, Md, to
attend the funeral of her mother, who
was III years of age.
Pompey Crab: nj, of Ncwburg, N. Y,
deposited his vote as usual at the late
election, and he is in good health, yet he
is said TO be III years Of age.
Nine. Louise Luccnc, once a social
celebrity in Paris, has just celebrated tie
Tooth aunive sary of her birthday. She
was the rival in beauty of Nine. Re
camier.
In Mechanicsville, N. j., Jane Thomp
son, n ccn~tenarian, does the housework
c%heerlully and correctly, and for five
years has cared for the seven children OF
a daughter.
Gardner Sloan. of Richfield Springs.
n Y, is still hale and hearty at l03
years OF age, and Joseph Strickland, OF
Gainesville, Ga, has laid off the harness
at lOj years.
Margaret Gallagher, of Philadelphia,
was paralyzed just as she had closed :;
century of life. Nine children, thirty
seven grandchildren and twenty-five
great-grandchildren survive her.
4 The first paper manufacturer Of Lte,
Mass, WAS Stephen Thatcher, who dict
recently at Saratoga, N. Y, in the lO)u
year of his age. He made powder anc
wire at Ice prior to the war Of 1912
William .ummer, ofDover, Ne mad
his own coffin several years ago, an
placed it in his stable loft. He got tbr
dimensions wrong, however, and il
could not be used. He was just closing
a century Of life.
There has not been a death in The OLE,
fimilylof J. w, Mize, sheriff of Sumter
county, Ga, in sixty-three years, and
lac has six uncles and three aunts whose
united ares are $50 years. His uncles,
his cousins and his aunts number, al
told, 1856 That live in sumter county.
Nancy Scarlet's chief delight VISA
good ne spaper and a talkllive friend
She was born at ScarleL's Mill, Bclks
county, Pa, December %, l778. She
died recently. Although in her lO3l
year, she was recently a guest at a cen
tennial birthday party Of a near friend.
A rcmarkable feature in the history OF
William Smoak, ofCharleston, S. c., is
that he has lived to see his youngest
and t~hirteenth child a grandmoihcr. H.
has Just el tered his nincty-seventh year
has lC4 grandchildren, 39l great-grand
children and 20 ereat-grcat-grant-
children 0-L
"Uncle Joe" Cooper, CT Dryden, N
Y, hada cancer forty years ago, and he
summoned his friends and told them
his remaining days would be few. But
it did not reach a vital spot, and after
ivhealed he eejoyed good health until
he had a paralytic stroke recently in
tile l03d year of his age.