Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-11-07
TaE OLDEST INHAairAST
Disciples Of Meihuseiah who
Have Been Going = GO-as-you-
Please Gait for q Century or
MOre-SOme Rare Old Boosters

Angus Mcdonald, whose cap wa.
shot of his head at the battle of Wa
%terloo, died in Montreal, the other day.
at the age Of LOG years.
Tamah Brooks, a oolored woman
living at Atlanta, Ga, is l23 years old,
and has given birth to several children
since her Tooth birthday.
George Lssard, an old French sol.
der, was living in Montreal a few
weeks ago, vt the age Of l05. He
married his fourth vile when he wa.
a century old.
Mrs.Lucy Picket diedat Saugatuck
Mich. last April at the age Of IFS
Mrs. Picket was born in Plattsburg,
New York, and had seen Washington
and Lafayette.
Don Santiago Ortiz died at Ysleta,
Texas, last spring, aged 1l3 years. He
was active in mind and body to the
last, and when more than 100 years
old he swan the Rio Grande river.
Charlotte On. CO. journal: Susan
Ingram (colored) died near the Ru
disill Hill mine on the outskirts OF
this city, last Tuesday night, at an
extremely old age. Her relations in.
sist that she was IA.
Isaac Newsbaum, ofSouth Wabash.
is dead OF old age. Mr.. Newsbaum
came to Wabash county in 1882, and
has lived there ever since. He was
l07 years Of age and was said to be the
Oldest i~nhaDitant of Indiana.
Jacksonville, Ella } Times: An old
colOred man, named Bristol BeDia
min, aged LOG years, registered for
the first time yesterday at precinct
No. 8, and proposes to cast his maiden
ballot at the coming election for
Bisbee.
Joseph Greene, a French citizen OF
Swanton, N. H., is l01 years of age,
and his wife is ninety years old. They
have lived together seventy five years,
and have had twelve children, all OF
whom are now living, the eldest being
seventy years old.
In Sewer county, Arkansaw, there
is a negress named Edna Goodman,
who is l25 years old. For the last
quarter Of a century she has frequently
talked about dying, each time winding
up her remarks with the wish that she
might live to see just one more cotton
crop.
Henry johnson was sold on the
auction block in King and Queen
county. Virginia, when eighteen years
old. He served General Dick Taylor
until he was transferred to General
Andrew Jackson's household. He was
With General Jackson at the battle Of
New Orleans. He is now living al
Oberlin, at the age OF 100 years.
Christopher Remmey, who is said to
have been the oldest survivor among
the veterans of The war of 1872, died
in Jersey City October %, at the
advanced age Of ninety-three years and
two months. Dir. Remmey was active
for a man of his years almost up to
the hour of his death, and was a
favorite among the children.
Paris Kentuckian: Uncle" Billy
Layton, although in the eighty-frst
year OF his age, has remarkable good
eyesight and reads and works at his
trade, that of bricklaying, without the
aid of glasses. He has been blessed
with extraordinary health, and says il
he ever took a dose of medicine he has
no remembrance of it.
The oldest woman In the State Of
Ohio lives at the town of Bakerville,
in Coshocton county. Her name is
Catherine Albert, and her age is now
l07. She was born in Reading, Pa, in
l775, her maiden name being Cutshell.
The old lady is totally blind, and she
has partially lost her speech. Up to
a few months ago she always enjoyed
the best Of health. She has now 10
subsist entirely on pap, prepared from
milk. She is visited by people from
all sections.
The l0lst birthday Of James Parks
was celebrated at Enetsville a few
days since and there we're present a
large number of the relatives and
friends of the centenarian. Mr..
Parks came to Indiana in 1915 and
has lived on his present farm sixty-two
years. He has eleven children. ffty.
six grand children, eighty great.
grandchildren, and FIVE great-great-
grandchildren, making him the repre-
sentative Of five generations.
The relatives Of Matthew Morrissey.
OF Milwaukee avenue and McGovern
street, Chicago, claim that he is l04
years OF age. They do not know ex
aotly when he was born, and the ola
gentleman has forgotten that, along
with the other events Of his life.
Having outlived all of his early asso
c%iates, his present companions are his
grandchildren, all Of whom are now
grown. These now treat him a. he
once treated each Of them-as a child
Slr. Morrissey came to Chicago TWEEN
ty-two years ago, at which time he had
a cousin living here. Both had come
rom County Limerick, Ireland. and
had known each other in their youth.
This cousin, a man named Sullivan.
who died nineteen years ago., knew his
own age, and knew that Mr.. Morrissey
vas fifteen years older than he. In
this way the age Of the latter was
arrived at
Chicago Times: Jas. Collins, Of
South Lawrence, Mass, is a lover of
tobacco and whisky, is probably the
Oldest mar 10 the State, reaching in
December his 10th birthday. Born
IN Ireland, he was left an orphan at
the age of six months. and buried the
last Of his five brothers owe sixtv
years ago.. After living ninety Eve
years on a farm in his native Erin. he
concluded to try his fortune in the
land OF the free, making the voyape
with little discomfort He buried bis
wife forty years ago, and is cared for
by five Of his children living in Law
renee. He talks, hears and sees well.
never took medicine and never was
sick, saws wood and walksfor exercise.
aud has still on his head locks OF
his own hair, of which the genuine
Irish auburn has never been silyered
by time.
Elias De Puy is n~inety-fvo years Of
age and still able to walk eipht mics
a day over rough hills. Hell, es neal
Lackawack, Ulster county, N. Y, in