The Osceola times., 1883-01-20
LIFE Is But A span.

Aisle Knight died at Sandersvillc, Ga,
the other day aged l05 years.
John Walford, aged 1903 years, voted
at the recent election in Pike county,
Ky.
Aunt Teresa Pitt, colored, aged 100
years, lives at Fairliell |, Nelson county,
Ky.
Mrs. Yother, of Buford, Ca, is cutting
her third set of teeth. She is 81 years of
age.
Mrs. Mary Alfred, who died in Floyd
county, Ga, on the 18th, was l03 years
and days old
Hosea Parvin, aged ninety-two years,
was drowned by falling into n well, at
Mckinney, Texas, last week.
Mrs. Maria Appleby, of Morristown,
n. j., died on the l3 instant. She was
in her l05th year,
Among the curiosities in Boyle county,
KY, is woman 70 years old who has
not been off her farm for seventeen years
and never rode in carriage nor saw Il
train of cars i'm her life.
Fourteen hundred citizens beat off the
boats of the British feet at Bath, Me.
during the war of 1872. The death of
one of the number, Israel Eastman, aged
90 years, at Bath, last week, leaves only
two now alive of the 400.
Mrs. Arcnoth Bristol, of Cheshire.
Conn, nearly 96 years old, on Thursday,
November 50, rode with her son five
miles and partook of a Thanksgiving
supper with a number Of relatives of the
second and third generations.
Philip Pcvear, Il native Of Hampton
Falls, n. H., where he was born Deem
ber s, 1881, is living at Sedgwick, Me,
and is able TO read without spcctacles
He was q cabinet maker, serving his time
in Salem, Mass, and followed the sea for
many years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fowler, of Joncsvillc,
Union county, :. C., celebrated her Tooth
birthday anniversary on November 20
She became bride in 1902. She has p
grandchildren, but her great grandchil-
dren are so numerous that she cant
keep coun' of 'em,"
Sixty years ago, in the town of Sum
NIT, Shoharic county, n Y, there lived
a family named Hicks. consisting of
father, mother and eleven children
nine girls and two boys. The ather's
name was Isaac and the mothers Sarah.
The remarkable history of this family is
that every one of the eleven children are
still living although the Oldest was born
before the beginning Of the present cent
urv and the youngest is now cver64 years
old.
Mrs Sarah Wood, aged l2l years. died
at Buford, Ga. She was born in Cabar-
ras county, \. c., in the year 1852 or '63:
went TO South Carolina, near Spartan
burg, in l1.3 OF ~; was married there
to Mr.. Wood was the mother of eleven
children, two Of the youngest living near
buiord. She has others in Tennessee.
Ohio, Missouri and Texas. Her husband
was in the battle of Kings Mountain.
North Carolina, before they were mar
ried.
Mrs. Mary Larkin died recently at the
residence of her son-in-law, James Fahev
of Baltimore, in the one hundred and
third year of her age. She was native
of comfy Roscommon, Ireland, and
came TO Baltimore thirty years ago, to
live with some of her descendants Her
husband died many years ago. Mn.
Fahcy is her only living child, but there
are about twenty-five grandchildren and
nearly as many great grandchildren. |
Mrs. larkin retained her faculties TO the |
last, had good eyesight and was rarely |
III. She returned 10 Ireland twice after
em'grat'ng to the United States. Her
asst trip was made when she was eighty
i've years old,