The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-16
opo,,D OF his OLD AGE.
ANY the Centenarian of Lin
nes 1e1 PARK street
r-am the Boston Herald

le ~ q3 Linden PARK sIreeV. '
ana! % So - months longer he VIII nave
ye5 d ,o95 milestone IN the journey OF
ash Luo 90 1O1 years old a few months
fs. e. ror over forty years he has Deen
g. IU - Boston, and for about SIXTY
esla9I. has been a citizen of the United
e'Is I0 H as born in Ireland over lOI
Etaies. 4 he came TO this country, as
ars as'; o,,,saIf when he was "a young
Font 40 years of age. %
al, a. ~, - ranorter who called at NO. %
lle ne p e. street yesterday afternoon
inden 1+rv Young woman IN the olu
1nd Icy chatting VITA nelgnDor
ool9n This girl is a grand-nlece OF Tue
Ell IN " funny, and she and Marga-
Ir Il. q. ~ old mans wife, welco1led tne
nan with genuine o4d country noS
~ The house IS "ooden gu us st
'a am the old couple have liVen Ior LGIUS
ami it was an ancient nouso "nen
ears al III into if. The district IS not at
hey lAI'e' ,,1nnlated. and the centenarIans
tllcAi i,,aailin, is not a stones throw from
fuIiU ~. ~ If nnoccupied and uncultlVated
Di7 ,rbich are a good many trees ana
a1u oH TIVE waters of q go0d-slz d stream
81 rus IL over dam of stones under an
& u u1is lIa1 bridge beside Mr. Tunny's
"a oas7; o,,lock Yesterday afternoon, IN the
~ 80 h0Il,1 that opens to the street
o9 ,I' - as kitchen and parlor, the Oil
lI 81. on = lounge with his head to the
ian 10 He was wrapped IN warm
'5n and a heavy shawl, although the
~. nos as hot as the average July day.
'a,T ~. a~a-vO~n face was mosquito net
Il a a-l, IN chair by the side of tue lounge
Ill., C,ood wife. Margaret, induStriously
~ nslu-leaf fan. Anybody looking
s. 1 VA 7-,rostrate figure would have said 1t
w tsa+ If an old man much broken in
oslrb. but hardly anybody would have
,,rIrai tine opinion, on cursorv examlna-
Nj the old man had passed his hun
r,3,b vpar. iii, head was slightly bald on
-, buf the sides were well covered with
{ 4 me- Brown hair, and his square beard and
s,n>tache were turned WHITE. Inc eve
l.L1s Icera zone. and the skin had lost
"a mewbat the freshness OF vigorous man.
1aI Nevertheless, there are SEQ eS of
1or Looking men in Boston who have not
Fef rounded the threescore years and
an allotted by the ancient chronicler as
be-
NATURAL TERM OF HUMAN LIFE.
The features of Mr. funny were firm, and
although the jaws mumbled with each la
zborei inspiration Of breath through the
nosrrils. there was absent from the face the
,ritbered desiccated look of extreme old
Zsge. The limbs were very much emaciated,
however. aud the position of the body in
Sdicated great feebleness. The figure re-
sbaiued ImmOyable on the reporters en-
~ ance and after the announcement of
mission but the OLD man responded read
sily toh,s wife's remarks. He could near
*ysry well, and his answers were Intelligent
land often witty. but he seemed to utterly
ignore tie intruder's presence, and he
Hnoaned repeatedly, and uttered to Marga-
3 ret, his wife, I'm very sick manw Mar
4 garet, though uuch stronger than her hus-
Hand, is nearly as Old. and looks a good q 3al
sDder. While James teeth are quite sound,
H5largaret hasn't a tooth in her head. al
Though she talks in a loud, clear voice,
{ (Which is, if anything, a little mascui le-
4 Bier face is wrInkled, a I'd the skin, which is
Efhe color of century Drowned parchme ut,
sla IS in shrivelad folds She is very proud
5Of her aged consort, and particularly Of the
fact that Ee has retained his vitality aud
|.aculties through nearly 103 years. She
Stroke his beard alfecuonately as he lay
ON the couch, and explained all about his
methods Of life, his religious principles, his
tastes and fancies and his past experiences.
But she wouldn't tell her own age. She said
|she didn't know it; and when the old man
was asked about it, he remarked with drv
Lumor, IN very feeble voice: "She's old
|enough to be good enough"
After little while the reporter got Mr.
|Tunny interested in the conversation. and
i the old gentleman took an active part in the
proceedings that dated from this point. He
was born in BallyShannon, Ireland, in 1887
Ot peasant parent. His father died Young
and ms mother was not old enough at her
death to secure any fame for longevity.
lbs aunt, however, lived to a very old age
hoy old, he didn't know; but he rene N
bers well that when she was over 100 wears
at age. she walked three miles with a
lgnted candle over a rough country ROAD
10 attend midnight mass in the parish
chapel. In 1881 Mr.. funny left old Ireland
Tor the new world. II was nlver a schoI~
ard, he said sadly to the reporter, IAN me
menu fails me o the ould times. but 7
moind well
TIL DAY I KIM TO ADIERIKY.
IL had only known" he weat on with
quaint pathos, that I'd live to this age. I'd
9a mad 4arnln' to-day. Nawthin' kin be
ugne Wldout eddication, an niver had no
e9tulG&tion;" Mr. funny is proud enough
u ms Old age, but he is modest in
Ssp7aklng of his scholastic attainments
me TACT is, he could read and write verv
wen once, but he has forgotten n3w
ne says, how to do either: but Mar,
$aLet, MS wife, says that up to only a
lew 4w months ago he read his Bible every
When Mr.. funny came to this country
neyer 40 IoI III business as a peddler, and he
H. H. I ulu hucn OF any other kind of work.
-Io nas uIhe little or nothing since the war
"a :. pC "hat household labor he performed
..S way OF saving wood, etc. When the
ioin tI ,oAo ouI ne made an earnest effort to
srtbo oua union FORCES, but he says that the
gronr,a I.les refused to accept him On the
e. e. ou 'il Unat ne was too old. He saws that
III! memory is all gone. but he has an oid
ne1gnoor' 81 years of age, who visits him
every day and these two veterans arc eaid
~ ieAChange "reminiscences of events that
lana pace when young America was in the
said ,,a,. W Dc l was broth of a b'y.n he
a. yesterday. "whin the Frlnch landed in
tbr rri@au IN 9S, an l remember th'
car,G tO nus tonnes O. thin DAYS. Bnt Oi
yarn -, 'eli tllm t yer, Oh can't tell thin r
and de INA married his wife over fifty wears ago
s r,u 1uey have lived in the same 6ousa syer
died ,o One BOY was born to them, bat he
smals dd'any years ago. Mr.. Tunny has
was ,s@su ao, ana drunk liquors ever since he
ipts s young man, but he never drank 70
that b s ,,sa He still retains an old pipe
wears ~ uses once in while, but of late
the sto yue use OF tobacco made him SICK to
sawed tba H. In the last few weeks he ha.
Of the t~o "oon used in cooking the meals
able to D ,9o ana there are days whom he is
week or - ta aoout with the aid of cane. A
there was '"o ago he received a fall, and
Viii" Vas sore over his eve for few davs
refnso.' ue evidences of his fall remainad he
to his 20 permit anybody to be admittad
usnoi AZ =, esence, aud would not take HE
even aa exercise. His temper is verw