The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-05-24


Vim. A: Berkeley, Charlotte, 1926 Ill
VIM. Wooten, Charlotte, 1873 III
"a Negro, Richmond, 1878 1876
VIM. Harrison Brunswick Co., 1905 10
J ohm Cuffee, Norfolk, 1886 100
John, "a negro, Washington, D C, 1888 1l5
Gilbert, "a nsgro), Augusta Co.. 1914 112
Wonder Booker, Pr. Edward Co., 1915 126
The last named was slave belonging
to George Booker, and received his name
(Wonder) from the circumstance that his
mother was in the 58th year of her age
when he was born.
We learn from the Bible that Moses
lived to the age of 120, and Joshua to
that of ITO. AS an instance of heredi-
tary longevity may be mentioned that OF
Abraham, who lived to IT'S, Isaac to $50,
Jacob to l47, and Joseph to ITO.
AS a class, clergymen are said to be
the longest lived of any in England.
Poets, as a rule, are not as long-lived as
philosophers, although Sophocles is said
to have lived 90 years. Of the old phil
osophers, Zeno died at 90, Demosthenes
at SO; while Hippocrates, the father Of
medicine, lived to upwards OF 100. Many
medical men have lived to an advanced
age, but it appears from statistics that
physicians are, as class, shorter lived
than members of other professions. The
Apostle John is supposed to have lived
tn the age of 100 Both Button and Hal
Ter placed the normal term OF life between
~ and 100 years. They afterwards, by
the collection of Instances, placed its ex-
IRENE limit at little less than two CEN
turies. The late Sir He-.y Ironanu pc
Iieyed tbat Cnere was sufficient proof of
she prolongation of human life to no,
and even 140 years.
In a work entitled Human Longev-
ity," by James Easton, published in Sal
isbury, England, in 1899, there are re-
corded the ages of 1712 persons who
were said to have lived over 100 years,
divided into the following periods Of
males and females which lived from 100
to ITO years, both inclusive, the instances
have been 1910; from ITO to 100 there
have been 277; from 120 to 100 there
have been &c; from 140 to $50 there
have been 7 from $50 to 100 there have
been 8; from 160 to ITO there have been
2; and from ITO to 185 there have been
The following are amongst the names
and ages mentioned by Easton St. Pat
rick, 1872; Attila, 124 Lywarch Hen,
350 ST. Keevin, 100; Piastus, King of
Poland, 100; Lewis Cornaro, 104; st.
Anthony the Great, los; Jane Schrim-
shaw, 127; Alexander Stevens, 1O8;
Donald Cameron, of Scotland, $50, (who
married at the age of 1907; Mrs. Carter,
l0l, (who could walk 5 or miles day
with ease till within few months of her
death) Mrs. Keith (who retained her
senses till within IA days Of her death at
the age of 1873, and who left three daugh-
ters, aged respectively Ill, ITO, and
1O9); Peter Mcdonald, 100, (his father
died at 116, and his grandfather at 1O7) !;
Thomas Winslow, 146 Mr.. Dobson, 139,
(leaving 81 children and grandchildren,
all of whom attended his funeraI An
drew Vidal native of Brazil, 124, Che
had 30 sons and 5 daughters and in 1878
was living in the same house with his
children and grandchildren, who num-
bered 149); John Weeks, ia, (who mar
ried his tenth wife when he was LOG
years old,.a girl Of 16). Then we have
a we'll authenticated account of Betsy
Franklin. who died near Murfrees-
borough, Tenn, at the age of 154, Cat the
time Of her death she had entirely lost
the sense Of taste and hearing) Solomon
Mabit, Of Laurens county, S. O., died in
1920, at the age Of 143, (who never lost
his teeth or his sight, and few days
Before his death joined hunting party
ssnd actually killed deer); Henry Fran
CISCO, of Whitehall, N. Y, died in 1920.
aged 136'years. Hungary has produced
three remarkable cases Of longevity.
thought to be the most extraordinary Of
modern times, viz: Peter Torten died
January 9Th, 1874, at the age of 1851
John Rovin and his wife died in 1744,