Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23
Four miles south of Elkton, Mich.
there lives perhaps the Oldest married
couple in the world.
There have been several well au-
thenticated cases of men reaching q

greater age than the 1Os years which
Jacob Hitler has seen completed.
There have been many women who
have lived longer than Mrs. jacob
Filler, who is nearly LOG. But proi..
ably it has never happened to any
other youth and maiden, marrying
when the former was twenty and the
latter eighteen, to pass together eighty
eight years OF welded life; to celebrate
their golden wedding ani live on; TO
celebrate their diamond wedeing aRd
still have thirteen years of wedded
life together after that.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hitler were married
twenty years before the railroad came,
and fourteen years before "Witt Clina
tons Ditch" (the Erie Canal), across
New York State, was opened. The
United States, when they were married,
was puny little nation, on the point
of going to wal one moment with Eng:
land, the next with France and in3
suited and browbeaten by both. M
poleon was at The height of his power,
yet unsapped by the disasters in Spain
or the reir ,at from Moscow, the grisly
horrors ot- Waterloo, six years away,
and oil untor,: 3n.
Yes, it's long term of years for
man and wife to spend together, bnt
the old couple seem never to have tired
of it or of each other. And, sitting IN
their little house like veritable Dar-
by and Joan, they received New
York World reporter together as they
have lived.
"I'm los years old, ssaid Mr.. Hitler
from the depths of his capacious arm
chair. "My birthday was the 2Oth Of I
last October; so you see I'm pretty
we'll started going on 100. She"-here
he nodded toward Mrs. Hitler in her
easy chair opposite-"will be LOG next
March. I was about twenty-five or:
twenty-three whom the War Of 1872
broke out But we were on. the etthsssss:ss4
side, you know. We were born. at
Jamestown, back of Kingston, in Can.
ada, and lived there till we were DID,"
"Your children are scattered?"
eve have had eleven children, " re-
piled Mr.. Hitler, land seven of them
are still alive. The oldest Is eighty-fve
and the youngest is fifty-eight years
old. One of our daughters lives about
half mile from here, and once in
while walk over to call on her."
"You do not seem like so old
man," said the writer. And indeed
Mr.. Hiller's eye is bright, aud, though
his face is wrinkled. he has the ap-
pearance of energy such as one does
not attribute to age.
"Me?" said he with shrill laugh.
"Why, I was lightweight years old
before I lost my first tooth, and I've
cut two new ones since then. I've
never worn glasses in my life, and 1
can thread a needle as we'll rs you
can, if you are woman. I don't sleep
as we'll as I usel to, though. !"
"And you, Mrs. Hiller?"
GIVE kept house eighty eightyears,"
piped up the old lady, "but don't do
much work now. I'm pretty feeble,
pretty feeble. I can't walk and I'm
most blind nld can't read; but 1
dearly love to have people read to me.
T get lonesome sitting here so long.
Sometimes my grandchildren come
and read to me. Aud things are sent
to me for them to read, and I always
keep them" " =,
"What kind of reading do you like
best?"
''Poetry. Jacob, show them to the
lady
The old man promptly fished out of