The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-30
was SHE 1873 YEARS oLDs
Reasous FOR Relieving That q Negro woman
Lived TO See That Great Age.

HktNIouI IoE IDutcNuu AAN - -
Lived TO See That Great Age.
From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
NIcHoLAsvILLE, KY, Jan. 22.-In the pau
pers' graveyard in the town of Cynthiana, in
central Kentucky, silent and transformations
with no stone to tell who lies beneath, is a
newly made mound. The sleeper was q recent
inmate of the Harrison county poorhouse, some
times dignifed with the name Of infrmary.
"Mammie Mariah." an old negro woman, who
sleeps her last sleep in that newly made grave,
came to Kentucky more than 100 years ago
from "Ole virginny' with o family named
Innis. Soon afterward she was bought by
Thomas Hamilton and his wife, who were laid
Lexington. OF all the slaves in the household
in which she served there was none like old
pathetic ear, the troubles OF the schoolboy and
siF, d Words and III Kind dG saresses. and nd, even ns the n sol.
der boy, who SO Willingly, donned the gray to
fight for his loved Dixie land" would not 60
ing. For three generations she petted and
caressed, sc~olded.yes. and even spa1 * a. o1s
woman peacefully, without q struggle, without
a moments warning. Sitting in her old arm
chair; she she a arSppe swa aRta q gentle sleep from
The negress was a middle-aged woman when
bought by. the Hamiltons.. The older Hamil-
p 1Sos RaySe OF Miss SMasi Jane Hamilton, whom she had
| nursed. Miss Hamilton married James Carroll.
then remarkably old and wizened, lived. Mrs.
S Nam Maria had q chilli, tWenty;;aiSe, years
Ever since the Oldest inhabitant of Harrison
county can remember, she has been n dried.up
old woman Of the mummy order. and. natu.
rally almost n dwarf in size, she:appeared more
llfs t@e fyP% psstiS Mi!ee ae sssn during aas = tho fSn' iast 0i afty
years of her life, her eyesight was wonderfully
good, and right UP TO the time she died she g
nursed in the lap, Of Mam%ie Maria relate
anee Of Washington, and Of, the hnery Of the
relocated Britishers, and colonial customs, all
of which she distinctly remem9ered; ~, rorno
vi Who 'S was y raissd BY fhe cPETon family. T era has
t unSe I WISH Visited shG my az aunt t. Ma%mie Maria, was in
1860, and she then told me that sheswas over a
hundred hum years old B. ;5 and t,m l think III ba she ss %ds q hum
A. granddaughter of Mrs. Dorothy Carroll.
mother OF James Carroll, says; siS9 4
mother. who died exactly thiPty;twS years ago,
also grown and both the old women said that
the r neG Enns n was a M few yieasMg a .he s Sbaef. lao Gh AT
the time OF her death, n few days'ago."
flames Carroll, whose wife owned Mammie
Maria. died sixteen years ago; and at the time
OF his UehIn III -sIhlCu th'b a Nao - y
old. But the following affidavit. made by
Graves Carroll, former assessor, and one OF the
most prominent citizens of Harrison county and
son Of James and Jane Carroll: should prove q
clincher as regards tho age of this y, woman:
II, Graves Carroll. being duly sworn, state
that, to the best Of my knowledge and belief, tho
las years old at tho time Of her death. / com.
putc her age in tho following way: She was a
Dorothy Carroll. Mrs. Carroll died thirty
two years ago in the 105th year, Of her age.
UhGa IrnuIH huVa made MammiA Maria ADOnL
l30syears old wnen she died. Therefore, I feel
old. GRAVES n
Estate of Kentucky. Harrison county"
"Subscribcd and sworn to before me by
Graves Carroll, this 18th day Of January. 1898.
NOTARY Public. Harrison county, KY"
The CAROLS above referred to came from
MARYLAND and are descendants Of Charles Car
roll OF Carroilton. ono of the signers OF the Doc.
l%aration Of Independenoe., Other mombcEs Of
whom other facts In the above story were OBJ
tanned, will make affidayits as to their truth.
fulness, and that the old negress was. at least
1876 years old when she died.