The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1881-11-01
CENTENARIANs.
NoTAsLE INSTANCES OF PERSONS ATT
TANNING GREAT AGE.

NoTAsLE INSTANCES OF PERSONS Ats
TANNING GREAT AGE.
Betsey Trautham, Of Tennessee.
died In 1884, aged one hundred and
hfty-four years. The following par
tlculars of this Individual are given in
the National Gasetts, from an account
dated Murfreesborough, Tenn. Feb
ruary ~, 1884: She was born In Ger
many and emigrated to the British
Voienies in American at the time when
the Arst settlement was made in North
carolina in the year ITO. At the age
OF one hundred and twenty " ars her
eyesight became almost extinct, but
during the last twenty years Of her life
she possessed the power of vision as
perfectly as at the age Of twenty
years. For many years previous to
her death she was unable to work,
and is said to have required great at
tention in her friends to prevent the
temperature Of her body from falling
80 low as not to sustain animal life.
AT the time of her death she had en-.
tirely lost the senses Of taste and herr
Ing. For twenty years before her
death she was unable to distinguish
the difference between the taste of
sugar and vinegar. At the age Of
sixty five she bore her only child, who
is now living, and promises to reach an
uncommonly advanced age.
Solomon Nabit, OF Laurens county,
N. O., died in 1890, aged one hundred
and forty-three. Nabit was a Lative
Of England, whore he lived until he
was nineteen years of age. He then
came to this country and resided in
the State of Maryland until about
tifty-fve years before his death, when
he removed to South Carolina, where
he passed the remainder Of his life.
He never lost his teeth or his sight,
and, few days before his death, he
Joined hunting party and actually
killed deer.
Henry Francisco, of Whitehall, N.
Y, Y, died in 1920, aged one hun
dred and thirty-four years. Francisco
is stated to have been born in France
in 1886, but at the age of five years
left that country in company with his
father, who fed from religious perse-
cution, and went first to Holland and
afterward to England. Me was pres
emit at the coronation Of Queen Anne,
and was at that time sixteen years OF
sge. He fought in the wars Of that
queen under the Duke of Marlborough.
In the early part of the last century he
came to New York with his father.
He was wounded In Braddock's defeat,
was carried to Quebec during the
Revolutionary war, and suffered much
from wounds.
Wonder Booker, negro, of Prince
Edward county, Va, died In 1910, aged
one hundred and twsnty-six years. TLis
individual was slave belonging to Geo
Booker, of Prince Edward county, Va
He received his name from the circum'
stances that his mother was in her fifty.
eighth year at the time of his birth. He
was Of great strength of body, and bis
natural powers, which were far superior
to those of people of color in general, he
retained in surprising degree. He was
q constant laborer in his masters gar.
den till within eight or ten years OF his
death,
The most extraordinary instance Of
longevity in modern times, with regard
to satisfactory evidence that can be
found, is that OF Peter Toreto, Of For
ten, a native Of Kafrock, in Hungary
he died January 5, l724, at the age O
one hundred and eighty-fve. A few
days before his death he walked, witt
the assistance of staff, some miles tc
ask charity of the travellers. He had
little sight, and his hair and beard wer.
of greenlsh white color, like moidly
bread, and few of his teeth remained
His food consisted Of pulse and breae
with little brandy.
John Rovin and his wife, also native!
Of Hungary, died In the year 174l-ths
former In the one hundred and seventy
second and the latter in the one hun
dred and sixty-fourth year of her age
having been married one hundred ant
forty-seven years.
The most extraordinary instance o
longevity in Great Britain was exhibited
in the person of Henry jenkins. HI
va anatiye Of Yorkshire, lived to tn,
amazing age of one hundred and sixt,
years, and died en- the 9th Of Deem
Der, 1910. Next to Jenkins We hav,
the famous Thomas Parr, who was
native of Shropshire, aged one hundret
and fifty nine, and died In 1765. jaime
Bowels, aged one hundred and fifty-two
lived in Killingsworth, and died on tn
18th day of August, 1866. Col. Thoma
Winslow, a native Of Ireland, aged on
hundred and forty-six, died on the 20t
of August, 1766. The Countess of Des
mond, in ireland, saw her one hundre
aud TO; tieth year. VIM. Evans, age
one hundred and forty-hve, lived i
Casrnavon, and In the year 1852 ssi
existed, and Dumiter Radadoy, age
one hundred and forty, lived In Ha
L tr,d ix.A an, "a lHiI daT 4