Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-11-02
VERY OLD PEOPLE.
Many ef Them showinG Bemaskasis
Preservation Of Both Body and Mind.

Many Of Them showinG Remarkable
Preservation Of Both Body and Mind.
James Stone is Louisville, KY,
man, lo3 years Of age, who has had
eleven wives.
Mrs. Thomas Adams, OF Bloomington.
H., has descendants TO the fifth genera
ton, and is ninety-seven years Of age.
joseph Muncy died at Little Wash.
ington, Pa, just as he had completed q
century life.
Mrs. Lille Peabody, OF Quincy, ILL.,,
was ninet y one when she died, and Ben
jamin hickey OF Ten Mile. Pa, lol.
In 1893 Julia Wilson was a slave in
Philadelphia, and thirteen years of age.
She is therefore one hundred years OF
age.
Near Saratoga, in Corinth, N. Y,
Abigail Bramer recently met her death
by an accident at the age OF ninety
eight years.
Mrs. Joanna Boulger died recently in
Chilicothe, Ohio, aged ninety-two, and
Abraham Stewart at Indianapolis aged
l0l.
Tucson, Arizona, has two centenari-
ans, Mexicans. born in Sonors-Bascual
Cruz, ITO years old, and Jesus Ohledo,
100 years old.
Mrs. Margaret Dodson, of Houston
county, Texas, glorics in the fact that
she has ffty-one great grandchildren
living.
After living ninety-three years, An
drew Shafer of Allegheny. Pa. was
strangled TO death by robbers, who en-
tered his dwelling in the night for
plunder.
Mrs. Margaret Kale, Of Reading. Pa,
was l07 years OF age On recent Wednes-
day.
The sixth ward. OF Saginaw City.
Mich., claims French woman of ll0
years Of age, who planted, cultivated
and dug two acres OF potatoes last sea-
son.
Mrs. Sarah Moseley. of Madison, Ind,
Is enjoying visit from her son, whom
she has not seen in forty-seven years.
Mrs. Moseley is Ill years old.
Sixteen soldiers met in Paris, KY,
recently, whose united ages were 1890
years, or an average of eighty-six and
sev'n-eighths years. The Oldest was
ninety-six. and the youngest eighty
two.
"Pm not at all tired" said Alio, OF
Tylersburg, Pa, as she sat down in her
sons house, after walk Of seven and q
half miles-and she is in her lO7th
year.
Mrs. Eaglin, Kentucky lady of Car.
roll county, was always great lover OF
the circus. She is ninety eight years OF
age, but recently walked two miles to
attend one.
Mrs. Hannah Cox, OF Helderness, N.
f., has celebrated her lO4th birthday.
She goes all about the house without
assistance, and reads without glasses.
Mrs. Rebecca Frost, of Hart county,
Ga, tells stories of the Revolutionary
war. She is l07 years of age and still
Ia splendid health, retaining all he fac
ulties.
When the grandmother of N. B
Doak Of Stockton, Cal, was century
old she made him pair of woolen socks.
She died recently at Wythe county, Va,
aged lO3 years.
With only a servant as companion.
old Mrs. Hatsfeld lives in her quiet
home in Philade lphia. She has passed
acentury in years, is very feeble and al.
most helpless, and likes seclusion.
Miss Mary Walker of Phillipsburg, N.
j., claims to be l07 years OF age. and
says it is all owing to her remaining An
old maid. Family cares. she says, are
the ruin OF the health Of thousands.
Muskegon. Mich. is proud Of Mrs.
Honora Hogan, who is as lively as the
youngest, reads, knits and sews without
glasses. has splendid appetite, and
walks to church regularly each Sunday,
at the age of ninety-fve.
Benjamin Fish, Of Trenton. N. j., al
though ninety-four years Of age, was an
active business man to the day OF his
death. He died recently while eating
breakfast. He was the first man TO burn
stove coal in Trenton.
Troy, N. Y, is the home Of Mrs.
Elvira Crabb. who although over eighty
years of age, i, still teaching q private
school, over which she has presided for
the last fifty years. She has taught four
generations of one fami
Marsac, the old French trader, died
In Bay City, Mich, aged 100 years. He
was an old stager, knew the trails OF the
Northwest when they ran through an
almost unbroken wilderness. and fought
on the staff of General Lewis Cass.
George Heisely, of Harrisburg, Pa.
died recently in his ninety.frst year.
He, with his brother, was drafted in the
war of 1912, and marched to Baltimore
to defend that city. He was an active
business man, and the last surviving
soldier Of the war Of 1912 in Harris