The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
VERY OLD PEOPLE.

NefV.e 0flSWOld, tennessee, claims
to be 10.
Grandpa Murphy, of O'Fallon, No.,
is in his l02d year.
a mulattO woman in Brazil is said
to be 187 years of age.
Eunice Sweat died in Belmont, n
H., recently, aged 105 years.
L. S. Payne died not long ago in
Stafford county, Va, aged I02 years.
Mrs. Dina Rau, who died at Little
Rock, Ark, on the 1st inst, was 102
years old.
Near Blountville, Tenn, lives Betsy
Dyer, aged I04 and Mrs. Goodman,
aged LOO.
Caleb Ferris, of Galway, n. Y, cell
ebrated his Tooth birthday by walk
ing a mile on wager.
Mrs. Julia Melan, for six years an
inmate of st. Joseph's hospital, New
York, is ITO years of age.
Michael O'Brien, of Darien, Wis, is
now living at the aye of 106. He still
enjoys his pipe Of tobacco.
Mrs. Miller, who resides at Nine
teenth and Tosker streets, Philadel-
phia, claims to be 105 years old.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harden, a colOred
woman, lately died at the house of her
son i'll Troy, n. Y, at the age of 104.
A colOred woman in Louisville,
named Rosette Washington, was born
in 1864, and is therefore in her 18th
year.
Michael Ganvue, living with his
sOn-in-law, George Muir, in Roches-
ter, n. Y, is los. He is an inveter-
ate smoker.
Old aunt Fannie Walker (colored),
of Kansas City, is in her 10th year.
She is living with her great-grand-
children.
Mrs. Margaret Freeman, of Bath,
Me, is in excellent health at the, age
of 100. She has sound teeth and
reads and sews.
The relatives of Lewis Rockwell, Of
Honesdale, Pa, celebrated his centen-
nial birthday not long agd by sending
him to the poor house.
Nathan Whiteley, of CoviRgtO Ga,
is 102, as shown by the record in the |
old family Bible. He is as hale as a
man of go, and appears to take the
world easy.
Archibald Macarthur died a few
days ago at Dussoon, Scotland, at the
age of 105. For many years he car
Tied on Evangelistic work among the
Gaelic population.
Nicholas Singley, of Ventura. CALI
said to be 104 years of age, and It is
claimed that both his father and mo-
ther lived to be over a century old, and
that his brother, recently deceased, was
los.
Mr.. Mauch Abney, of Red Oak, o.,
is lO2, and has sister only two years
younger. They moved to Brown
county, South Carolina, 40 years ago,
and have never been out of the cOun-
ty since.
Mrs. Sarah Mosely was Ill years
old at the time of her death, at Madi-
son, Ind, November 9Th. She was
native of North Carolina. Her daugh-
terS, of whom there are several in that
vicinity, range i'll age from fifty-1ive
to eighty-seven years.
Mrs. Emma w. shelton died in Bos-
ton last week, aged I03 years and ten
months. She was born at Ashburn-
ham, and married Rev. Thos. Shelton,
a graduate of Harvard and Pastor of
a FoXbOrO church. She had been in
good health until recently.
The father of Rev. Richard Jordan,
Of Rhea county, Tenn, is still living
at the age of LOG. His son is IS. His
wife is 81, but looks older than her
husband. He appears very much
younger than he really is, and bids
fair 10 live number of years longer.
Mrs. Rachel Conkline, of New
York, is now 100 years, one mouth
and few days old. Her husband
and son-in-law were soldiers in the
war Of 1912, and her brother cstab-
lished the first ferry between Ho-
boken and New York Her activity
is slightly impaired, and she has
only had two weeks sickness during
tie last twenty-five years.
Mrs Maria Huff, of Clinton, Wis,
celebrated her Tooth anniversary on
the 10th of August last. She was
married in 1899, and is the mother of
seven children, four of whom are liv-
ing. Their respective ages are 81, 73,
81 and 63. Besides the four children
living, Mrs. Huff has living twenty
six grandchildren, forty great-grand-
children, and eight great-great-grand
children.
Mrs. Nancy Sims, of Jackson, Tenn.
is said to be not less than 120 years
old. The old woman retains her
memory well. She claims that her
husband and father were both soldiers
in the Revolutionary war. Many of
her grandchildren and great-grand-
children are living in the counties of
Madison and Hardeman. a clay pipe
has been her constant companion since