The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-04-05
NINETEENTH GEN FURY GIANTS.
T.7o Remarkable Southern Families OF
Immense Physical Strength

Immense Physical Strength
From The New York World.1
! The World published short time
| ago Il record of the remarkable Tag
CART family, of Newberg. II the noun
tain sections OF Tennessee and North
Carolina there are a number OF fam
lilies presenting quite as interesting a
study.
The Walker family. diving in Mitch
ell county, n. e., is composed at pres
ent OF Il flther and mother, seven sons
and Il We daughters. The father is the
last Of a family of nine brothers. He
IS seven feet two inches high, and
among the nine was next to the short
est, who was seven feet, while his tall
est brother was eight feet in height.
lis wife. mother Of the twelve chill
dren mentioned, is five feet eight
inches n height. Her daughters range
from six feet one inch to six feet three
inches, and her sons from six feet eight
inches to seven feet nine inches.
The combined height of the twelve
would make seventy three feet six
inches. They are d 1Ong-livcd race, are
sturdy and healthy, and their anceS-
tors were generally of large stature.
The TenneSseeans are in some re-
speCts even more remarkable. Curl
OuSiy enough their name is Large.
They dwell in the house where An
drew Jackson died, by the banks of
the beautiful Wautaga, and in an air
line are not z great many miles from
tile Walkers, OF Mitchell county,
North Carolina. The same ntain
air and freedom Of outdoor life have
tended 10 the Development CT family
characteristics in both cases.
Captain Large is now sixty two
years Of age, is six feet one inch in
height and weighs PA pounds. His
wife, sixty years of age, is short, being
five feet four inches tall, and weighs
204 pounds. She has borne nineteen
children 10 Captain Large, and of
these sixteen are living. Two OF her
sons died at three months or younger
and one at the age of thirty. OF the
remaining sixteen seven are daughters
and nine are sons. The tallest OF the
sons is six feet and seven inches, and
the heaviest weighs 254 pounds. The
tailest Of the daughters, Polly, is six
feet in height and weighs l75 pounds.
Cora, fifteen years of age, comes next,
and bids fair to OutgroW her eldest sis
ter. Size IS five feet ten inches in
height and weighs l45 pounds. Ellen
is five feet eight inches and weighs
200 pounds. The remaining daughters
are not remarkable for size.
! William Henry, the twin brother of
| Ellen is feet tall and weighs $50
POUNDS. Isaac. OF the same weight, Is
6 feet ! inches in height. Robert is
! 8 feet I inches in height and weighs
POP pounds: John is feet and weighs
| POI pounds; Tom is 6 feet and weighs
POI pounds: James is feet inches
| and weighs 202 pounds, while George,
! the taIicst. and only 20 years Of age, is
6 feet inches and weighs 100 pounds
| The other sons are ali above medium
height, but none are remarkable for
! weight or stature.
! Taken all together, this family may
we'll he STYLED as Large in name, large
| in size and large in number. Captain
| Large sometimes rides into town with
| a boGyguard OF seven sons, none Of
| them weighing less than $50 pounds.
| Captain Large's oldest child is less
| than forty years old, while the young
est is fifteen. He has thirty-three
grandchildren and one great-grand-
! child.