The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-09
LIVING A CENTURY.
Notes ON People VINO Are i'm the Scar
and Yellow Leaf.

In Gainesville, Ga, Father Williams
died, aged 80.
At 104, Ann Carroll departed this life
at Ovid, N. Y.
Lucy Scott 10S years of age, died in
Newark, Ohio; on Wednesday.
Mrs. Ann Denny, of Smyrna, Del, has
Just celebrated her 102d birthday.
"Old Aunt Hagar," of North Adams,
Mass, has been gathered in at Ill.
At Matamoros, Mexico, groom of 95
led his bride of 9S all blushing. to the
altar. ss 5A1is.i s.,at
An old soldier, William Wicks, Of Big
Grove, ILL.,, lay off his armor when 90
years Of age. I,,
At Lancaster, Pa, oldest inhabitant
hasjust died in the person of Joseph
Rogers, aged "a. ~ -
After living l12 years Jack Bandy, a
colQred man, of Union Springs, Ala,
wasburned to death. ax5t 4
A brilliant guest, who led the German
at recent wedding in Boston, was DR..
John ]. Brown, aged "a.
Lizzie Lowe, of Savannah, after living
Baptist for more than acentury yield
ed up her lille on Monday ~
At Toronto John B. Soullierer recently
died in his 92d year, after being. permit
ted to see the fourth generation Of his
offspring. ..., -. a. h;
A veteran of the war Of 1919 recently
died in Marion County, Ohio, in the per-
son of Samuel Scribner, in his 97th year.
At the recent town election in Rollins
ford, N, H., Mrs. Loyey Wentworth
cast her maiden vote, although. she has
passed her Goth year. @%.~,
Two orphans at Elkader, Iowa, re-
spectively so and rs years of age, have
just buried their old mother, Mrs. Pen
dleton, who died in her 10th year.
The only survivor of the battle Of
New Orleans is V. I. Dalton, who cele-
brates the anniversary of that event by
entertaining friends. He is now over
ninety.
The obituary column of the London
Times recently contained twenty-six
names of persons whose ages averaged
eighty years, remarkable record Of a
single day. ....... F.:
Old Uncle Billy Calvert handled every
stick of his tobacco crop himself, al
though he is totally blind. He lives near
Carrollton, NO., and is in the nineties.
The only child of Henry Clay still liv-
ing is John B. Clay, who enjoys COM
Portable dwelling and two hundred acres
of the paternal homestead near Lexing-
ton, Ky.
! An old Delaware slave, Mary Gross,
has Just completed her one hundred and
fifth year. She is remarkably bright,
maintains her mental qualities and is
the Oldest woman in Chester County.
The Rev. John Salmon, an old Baptist
minister Of Alexandria, Mimi, preached
his last sermon on his eighty-ffth birth
day. He never received or asked one
dollar for ministerial labor.
Old Jack Mowery, an exslave, is
spending his last days in ease and lux
ury, supported on his masters estate, in
Oxford Township, New Jersey. He is
believed to be one hundred years Of age.
The first white settler in Northern Iii
nois died in Iroquois County recently at
the age of eighty. He went there in
1916, and resided there until he died.
His name was Noel lie Vasseier.
l
Calling personally and renewing his
newspaper subscription for the sixty-fifth
| time is the experience of the Hon. Arte-
mus Hale, of Bridgewater, Mass. Al
though ninety-six years of age, he retains
all his faculties.
| Mrs. Mcleod, of Valleyfeld, Prince
Edwards Island, is one hundred and
three years Of age. She spent great
Zeal Of time in the harvest field last sea-
son, reaping. Her mental faculties re-
main good, and her sight is unimpaired.
| A curious party was recently held at
John 7. Kings, Peoria, ILL.,, where none
Of the guests were under seventy years of
age. Twenty-three sat at the festive
board talking over old times whose age
ranged from seventy to ninety.
4 Vending across a prairie in an open
wagon on mission of charity was the
recent experience of the venerable So
journer Truth, of Kansas. She is one
hundred and five years of age, and her
trip of one hundred and seventy-fve
miles speaks for her physical vigor.
Of the eight hundred members Of the
Rev. D. Jacobs Ide's original congrega.
ton, Midway, Mass, he conducted the
funeral services of all except one. Death
called him on Monday just as he was
finishing century of life.
After giving $1,000, in the shape Of 9
farm at Utica, to the House of the Good
Shepherd, Mrs. Mary Wetmore of Oneida
County, N. Y, knit two hundred pairs Of
stockings for the orphans in it in the last
year, She died on Monday in her eighty
fifth year, and in her will she gives S. ,0O(
more. .... ...... y..-.s
Mrs. Rebecca Ostender delights hel
visitors with incidents Of sleigh ride
|, that she had with her parents in jam
ory 17Q0 tho 1enUth, Of SaratOpa ,aXV!