The sun., 1899-04-30

| aged 115 His daughter Pauline is still living.
! aged o2 John Broz. OF Bohem ian nativity. de-
scribed as one who never got tired Of ex-
istence." died in Chicago. April 5. after ninety
eight years OF earthly pilgrimage. Never in
| his life was he cross" said an old neiRhbor
He always had good word and Joke for
every body. He smoked necessarily from early
morning until night. and as long as his pipe
was going he was laughing with some one Is
the aecret Of long life in these qualities ?
Iowa. the Hawkeye State, Ia the home OF cente-
narians. William thinner OF Clinton has Just
celebrated his Tooth birth anniversary. He is
still hale and hearty and is seen walking in the
streets every day. Robert Bell, the oldest res
ident OF Dubuque county. was 100 by the rec
ords when he died last winter Mrs Lucy
Alexander, coored. lied last fall in Keokuk.
aged 127 years. She had records which were
held to prove her statement as to age. and was
called the oldest person in Iowa. Recently an
Iowa pair OF lovers each 80 years old. sur
prised the people of Waterloo by getting
married. Where persons OF 81 still contem
plate marriage the cror OF Methuseahs ought
to be unusually large.
Over in Michigan. the State OF pingree.
Adam LANCER OF Royal Oak. who lacks five
years Of being a centcnarian. is still earning
his bread and butter by driving milk wagon.
Jonathan MrGee of Ann Arbor. a coored vet
t1in VI luIfc wars, WHO pIHctS nlb age at llV
years. was short time ago married to Mrs.
Amelia Day of lpsilanti The youthful bride
was still in her lftes. Out in Omaha. Neh,. a
colored patriarch named Lewis Washington
passed away in sleep Il few months ago. with
out symptom of pain. at the age of 100 years,
as his friends estimatcdit. His wife had taken
passage for the other shore slightly in advance
Of him at the age Of 104 years Herman Grun-
berg died In December al tho Pacific Hebrew
Home. San Francisco. aged lO2 years. Nineteen
years previously. not expecting to live so long.
he had bought a coffin. had his shroud made.
and selected his pallbearers He was buried in
the coffin he had kept 80 long. but only three OF
his chosen pallbearers survived to take part in
the funeral services
Never too old to learn" was illustrated by
"Grandma" Green OF Hebron. Wis. Who on the
nnetieth anniversary of her birth. lately cee-
brated. delighted her ncighbors and friends by
riding a bicycle several times about the homo
grounds. apparently with the ease OF one not
half her age. Chippewa Falls. Wis. had n cen-
tenarian in the person of James Mcdonald.
who recently diod in st. Joscph's Hospital. 1O2
years old. Mrs Elizabeth yieau of Depcre.
Wis. lacked only six years OF completing her
century when her life lately closed in that
town. 1t was Wisconsin veteran j. A. Rappe
of Marinette. aged s3. who distinguished him
sell last year by walking 800 miles to the Grand
Army encampment at Cincinnati.
Ohio has resident who long ago passed the
century mark. The person referred to is
Aunt" Mirah Davis. colored. who is reputed
to be 125 years old. and lives about four miles
from Swiss Elm. Highland county. She is still
spry and does her share of housework She
neverindulges in stimulants. like Sarey Camp.
but occasionally smokes cob pipe. She re-
ceives many visitors who have heard OF her
nyfr nr1i ID.
vania is an easy transition when discussing
longevity. Michael Mooney of Philadelphia is
lO6 years old and almost rugged enough
to play football. His greatest trouble ia
that he often dreams of fights with mad
bulls. in which he occasionally has pretty
close shaves. but as he always wins out event
ually he doesn't mind this so much Mary
/ Mcdonald. born in 1770 Is an inmate of the
Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons
In West Philadelphia. She has certificate at
testing the date of her birth. and her picture
has been published in the papers as that Of the
oldest woman in the world. Mary has used to-
bacco all her life. and her pipe is her chief
solace. from which fact the opponents OF the
weed may take such comfort as they can get
Mrs. Catherine Watts OF Sellersvie. Pa. cele-
brated her 1OSth birthday anniversary in Oc-
tober. and told her friends that she man.
aged t. keep happy and busy doing a little
housev 'ork and reading without glasses
Miss lester Parker. who was housekeeper for
Presto ent Buchanan. In Lancaster died in Feb
ruary in her ninety fourth year. Sarah Terry
Celeb rated the 10Sth anniversary of her birth
Ivy u lining the Daughters Of the Revolution in
Phl adephia in November. She personally
kns George Washington and Lafayette. In
FRI nklin, Pa. the other day. two centenarians
sS .pped blithely up to the church altar and
~ lighted their troth in marriage. They were
, ohm Clews. sprightly boy OF 102. and Sarah
| Jennings. who is getting we'll on toward her
101st birthday.
| Mrs Nancy Cloes Ray OF Rochester, y. Y,
| was 1902 years and 8 months old when her
death occurred at the beginning Of this year
| She was the Oldest resident OF that city and the
| daughter OF Charles Cloes. a Revolutionary SOL
| dier. Along In January the State Board of
| Health at Albany received from Ledyard,
| Cayuga county. a certificate announcing the
death at that place OF Margaret Fallon. at the
| age Of ia years. The woman was born in Ire
land and had been In this country forty four
| years. Mrs. Judith Tormey died last summer
In Newark. N. j.. In her ninety ninth year. She
| was also born In ireland. Mrs. Tormey was
stricken with blindness In 1894 while taking
q farewell look at her son in his coffin.
New England has old people. some OF them
record-hreakers. John McDougall Of Maine.
.I | WIZ NdS dccuSlOHleu 10 uTlnklnS scotch WlllS-
key whenever he had the money and to smok-
Ing cut plug tobacco the year round. died a
short time ago on his small farm near Easton.
He was born in Dumfries. Scotland. and served
under Wellington In Spain. He studied his
Bible faithfully and could repeat whole chap
ters from memory. The oldest resident OF
| Portsmouth. n. H., Is James Wood. who has
passed the 1O2d anniversary Of his birth.
Wood Is an Englshman by birth and a
tailor by trade. The most remarkable collec-
ton Of aged sisters ever assembled in
Maine met at the house OF Mrs. Olive
Penney. at Clifton. in Septembe when the
Smith sisters held their annual reunion. There
were nine survivors OF family OF twelve sis
ters. whose united ages amounted to BS4
years. an average OF rs each. The united ages
OF nine Hewitt brothers and sisters. at a re-
union recently held in Vittoria. Canada.
amounted to 50S years. The grandparents OF
these Hewitt children were 1Oi and 104 years
old at their death. so that longevity was a
family trait The father lived to be over 40
and the mother nearly 3d.
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