Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-20
THE OLD PEOPLE.
a Centenarian at Granby-Others Get.
cling ON TO tho Same Limit.
from tina Hartford Courant :.

cling ON 60 tho Same Limit.
[From the Hartford Courant] :.
"Aunt" Sallis Brown will be 100 years old
On Sunday. March 90. She lives at present
ut North CRANKY, In quiet, little farmhouse
with her daughter, Mrs. Jane Latham,
sprightly young lady Of seventy, who does
her own work with the help Of her mother.
Mrs. Brown IL 90 hale and hearty to-day %
many women of fifty. She retains all OF her
mental faculties perfectly, can see to read
with glasses. sings, goes up and down stairs,
makes beds, washes and wipes dishes, and
can take good long walk. She was born at
Windsor, "Half Mile" March 20, 1870, and
has lived there and at East CRANKY all of her
when she has lived ct CRANKY. Her father
was Jonathan Brown Of Windsor, and her
mothers maiden name was Roxy Combs,
from Scotland. She had one brother and
three sisters, one of whom, KsEiah, was killed
when Q little over seventy ct Bloomfield by
having her head crushed by heavy loaded
wagon. In speaking of herself recently, she
said: ~ feel just a. young a. ever did, but
II makes me feel sad to think that all tho
young people whom used to know are dead.
There were Captain Bacon, Harlow Moore,
who kept the tavern down ct Rainbow. and
his brother Orson, and Benjamin Case, who
lived Just this side of Harlow Moores. They
are all dead now. Then there was Squire
Horace CLARK up at East CRANKY, Captain
Joel CLARK, Lawyer Bates and others of his
family, besides Deacon David Sheldon and
his father, who was hundred years old when
he lived with them at West Suhasld. He
from there. Squire Niles used to be around
en0T0.
remember arst rate how people from
Turkey Hills and all around there ran their
horses the night his paper mill burned over
across the river In Poquonock. We. used to
have great times In those days at balls"
She then told about the war of 1912, and
spoke Of several people in Windsor and Pc.
quonock who went to that war. and oharac-
terized those times % Exciting"
Mrs. Brown had the typhus fever about
thirty years ago, and has had the rhsuma-
tism since, which has left her little lame.
With the exception of these she has always
been we'll. She is looking forward with great
expectations to party which the nsighbors
have promised her on her one hundrsdth
birthday.
There are several other quite old people in
CRANKY, among whom are Mr.. Chauncey
Holcomb, the oldest man in town, who will
be 90 the 18th of next August; Mr.. Allen
Psttibone, SO next July; Miss Lydia Dibble,
sister of Superintendent Dibble at the capt.
toll. 90 September 20; Mr.. Francis Clark, 81
In October; Miss Julia Holcomb, 80 April 30;
Miss Elizabeth T. Smith, SO; Mrs. Riley Dib-
BILE, SO November 20; Philo Phelps, SO in Juno;
"Uncle" Julius Hayes, SO In July; Mrs Oliver
Beach, 80 the 14th Of this present month, who
remembers distinctly having seen seven gen.
srations In her own family-her great grand
father, grandfather, father, hef brothers and
sisters, her children, grandchildren, and one
grsst-Rrandchild, now q little over a year
old; Deacon Arson Cooley and Deacon viii.
liam Dewey are each about eighty years old.
There are quite a good number Of people in
CRANKY between seventy and eighty years
old.
The past winter has been trying one with
the old people in CRANKY as we'll as in other
places.