Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-20
Old Age Notes.

record in North Carolina.
Old Age Notes.
James Lovett, aged n%inety-one years,
died April 25 at East Penfield, N. Y.
A peasant has just died in Austria
Hungary who was 142 years of age. He
left a son aged lis years and q grandson
of SIS.
Uncle Peter Sarchett, of Brazil, Ind,
who resides with his daughter, Mrs.
George Husher, celebrated his eig hty-
eighth birthday May II.
Admiral William Norton Taylor died
April IL, at Margate, England, aged
ninety. He entered the service as
cadet as far back as 1915.
Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah Hulitt, of Land
isfield, Mass, have been married
seventy-one years. Both were born in
1871. Their marriage was solemnized
in 1915.
Mrs. Clara Hoyt, of Danbury, Conn,
who is in her '~ninety-ninth year, walks
to church, a distance of two miles. She
has not used glasses for thirty years,
and is very hearty for one of her ad-
vanced age.
General Abram Daily, a ninety-two-
y%ear-old resident of Brooklyn, is to re-
ceive a pension of 5000 a year from that
city under authority of a bill that passed
the New York assembly. He is u vet
eran Of the war of 1872.
Ex-Assembiyman James Yaney died
on May l, after a long illness, at Epbra-
tab, Fulton county, N. Y, aged eighty
deceased represented Fulton county as
its first member after the division of the
county in 1888.
Adam Gets, aged eighty, a well-to-do
farmer living at Shickshinny, Penn,
recently committed suicide. Going to
the S%usquehanna river, he tied a heavy
stone to his neck and, wading into the
stream, he lay down IN three feet of
water and deliberately drowned him
self.
Mrs. Margaretta Sauerwald died in
Baltimore, Md, aged ninety-two years.
She was in good health until recently.
About forty years ago she anne to
Baltimore from Hesse-D armstadt, Ger
many. Three sons, n daughter,
twenty-one grandchildren and ten great
grandchildren survive her.
Mr.. Paul Wild, one OF the original
and the first butcher to sell q piece of
mutton in that institution, died at
Quincy, Mass, April 25. He was born
in Braintree, Mass, March 90, 1900,
and was married sixty-five years ago,
his wife now surviving him.
Mrs. Curry, aged eighty-seven years,
lives between the villages of Farming
ton and Lakeville, in Dakota county,
Minnesota. She has been eighty years
a christian, being first "a Presbyterian
| and later a Methodist. She was born in
Virginia, and married James Curry in
Ohio in 1918. Her husband died in 1864.
Vines Hicks, of Roodhouse, Ill.,, who
celebrated his one hundredth birthday
last February, died last week, He was
a vetern of the war of 1912 and also of
the Black Hawk war. During the for
mer war he learned to sleep in his
clothes and kept up the habit until his
death. He never rode in a railroad
train.
Mrs. Ann Tunnell died a few days ago
at the Home for Aged and Infirm Col
| ored Persons, Philadelphia, Pa, at the
g Of ninety years. Her father, il is
said, owned considerable property in
| Philadelphia during his lifetime. None
of her children are living, but a large
number of descendants to the fourth
generation survive her..
Thomas Condrey who is nearly eighty
five years OF age and lives in Philadel-
phia, Pa. was at the central police station
| MAY o,,ClldIRSu DSloTG MAJ ioptobC oiuiLu
with being an haDitual drunkard. He
has been married twice, and takes great
pride in the fact that he is the father OF
twenty-one children. He was given
chance to take the pledge, and agreed
to "keep ii as long as he could"
Mr.. Samuel Gorsline, OF Coshocton,
Pa, who died last month aged ninety,
was attended by his wife and two daugh'
tiers, Mrs. Duffy of Kansas, and Mrs.
Hoffman, OF Ohio; He was buried
eighty-nine aud the two daughters, on
taking care Of him contracted fatal
colds and on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday of last week one of the two de-
voted nurses passed away in regular
succession.
West Virginia's "oldest man" is dead.
The distinction Was accorded Thoma.
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