Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-12-24
BREATHING salc-A-saAc.
which Refers 90 she Good Cid Peopl
.Who Have 6een a Century or Yesrx.

Which Hefers 10 the GOOD oio People
who Hsycse . Century OF Yesrs.
Mrs. Polly Hendricks, of Somerset,
KY, has passed her ninetieth year. -
Aunt Polly Baily, Of Clark county,
Kentucky, is ninety -four years Of age.
Aunt Lucy Strokes died near Vieks-
burg, last week at the age of ninety-five
years. yatssgfs lt%l ~ .Yl
Charles Class, over ninety years of
age, and probably the oldest man in
Greene county, Tenn, died last week.
Gabriel Duncan, the oldest man in
Crittendon county, KY, died last week
at the age of ninety-fve yeats.
II, w. Davis, of Sumter county, Ga,
Is as lively as. cricket at the age of
hinety-three years, and reads without
glasses. - ;e's
! Capt John r.. Gay, aged ninety-nine
YEAR,, is q resident Of Frankfort, Ky.
He is quite hearty, and promises to
live several years longer.
VIM. Burdett, living thirteen miles
below WalhaIla, N. g., is the oldest
man in that State. He has reached the
ripe old age of l05 years.
"Old Mother Hendrick," who lives
in Marion county, Ga, celebrated her
ninety first birthday last week, and
cooked the dinner to which she treated
her guests.
The mother of VIM. Trulove, of Har-
nett county, n. c., is 103 years old, hale
and hearty, has eight children; forty
five grandchildren and lightweight
great grandchildren living.
Jesse Hall, q wealthy and prominent
farmer of Bourbon county, died last
week aged ninety, one years. He was
six feet two inches in height, weighed
200 pounds, and was a progressing
looking man. ..
A female. inmate of the, Vicksburg,
Miss, poorho,lse died last week at the
ages.of III years. She was born In
MARYLAND, and related historical incl
dents which she had observed which
authenticated her great age. -
Joseph Revere, born at the British
garrison at Detroit In lit, is now living
| at Batavia, o., an inmate Of the county
| infirmary. He fought in the war of
1872, and was q worthy soldier and o
lannon's boxer and athlete in his younger
days.
Uncle Jimmy Figg, aged ninety-one
years, a soldier of the war 1872, lives In
Shelby county, Ky. He Is well pre-
served and does as large a days work
as the average man of fifty years. Uncle
Jimmy recently had the whooping
cough.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fo Wler celebrated her
centennial at Jonesville, \. c., Nov.
30. Her faculties are all preserved,
and from the store of her wonderful
memory she relates many interesting
tales of eighty or ninety years ago.
The house she lives in is as old as her
self
Mrs. Sarah Small celebrated her Tooth
anniversary of her birth on the 18th
day of last month at Bowioinham, Me.
She has had five children, all of whom
are living. The youngest is seventy
one wears of age and the Oldest eighty.
She was mrrried at the age of nineteen
wears, and has lived Oh the same farm
every since.
Martha Anderson, colored, died at
Paris KY, last week. She was l2O
wears old at the time of her death, was
as spry as woman of fifty years, could
thread needle without glasses, did all
her own work, and, of course, had seen
Washington. Her great age is vouched
for by many who know her history. she
was native of Virginia.
Portsmouth, r. l., Is rated with .
population of 2, 900 in the census oflS7O,
and is probably no more populous now.
| Within her borders, it is claimed, live
more nonogenarians than In any COM
munity of equal numbers in the country.
Here are their names and ages: VIM.
Manchester, l0l; John burlington, 81;
Elizabeth Brayman, SO; Cynthia Cory,
go; Henrietta Allen, 95; Mrs. Sarah
Gibbs, %; Mrs. Green, so; Bridget
Cogswell, 90; Peleg Almy, 90; Mrs.
Wilcox, 81; Ruth Barker, 93i Ruth
Cogswell, 80; Mary Slocum, SO; VIM.
Sisson, SO, and Margaret Sisson, his
wife, 02. The following were the ages
of some residents of the town who have
died within a few years: Sophia Sis
son, 81; Eunice Sherman, 9Si Mary
Sherman, 100; Annie Sisson, SO; Mrs.
Borden, 80; Peleg Almy, first, 50;
Stephen Slocum, 96; Mary Slocum, 80;
Hicks Cornell, 81; Peleg Thurston, 81;
Hannah Almy, 90; David Anthony, "a,
| and Caleb Cory, 81.