Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-07
CENTURY RUNS.

Robert Bell, the oldest resident of Du-
buque county, Iowa. was 100 by the rec
ords when he died last winter.
Mrs. John Quark, 100 years old, died a
| few days ago at her home near Galena, H.,
where she had resided for eghtyfve years.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, had a centenarian
| in the person of James Mcdonald, who re-
| Gently died in st. Josephs hospital, 1902
| years old
William thinner of Clinton, Ia. has just
| celebrated his Tooth birth anniversary. He
| is still hale and hearty and is seen walking
| in the streets every day.
| Mrs. Mary Stotler of Chirlicothe, Peoria
county, H., by her own method of compu-
tation is 115 years old She does not re-
member the year in which she was born
Sarah Terry celebrated the 1OSth anniver-
sary of her birth by joining the Daughters
of the Revolution in Philadelphia last No
vember. She personally knew George Wash
ington and Lafayette.
Jonathan MCGEE of Ann Arbor Mich, a
colored veteran of three wars, who places
his age at 110 years, was a short time
ago married to Mrs. Amelia Day of Ypsil-
anti. The youthful bride was still in her
fifties.
Mrs. Catherine Watts of Sellersvile, Pa,
celebrated her l0Sth birthday anniversary
in October and told her friends that she
managed to keep happy and busy doing a
little housework and reading without
glasses.
In Franklin, Pa, the other day, two CEN
tenarians skipped blthely up to the church
altar and plighted their troth in marriage.
They were John Clews, a sprightly boy of
102, and Sarah Jennings. who is getting
well on toward her 10lst birthday.
Michael Mooney of Philadelphia is 1O6
years old and almost rugged enough to play
foot ball. His greatest trouble Is that he
often dreams OF fights with mad bulls in
which he occasionally has pretty close
shaves, but as he always wins out eventu
ally he doesn't mind this SO much.
Ohio has a resident who long ago passed
the century mark. The person referred to
is aunt" Mirah Davis, coored, who is re-
puted to be l25 years old and lives about
four miles from Swiss Elm, Highland county.
She is still spry and does her share Of
housework. She never INDUCES in stimu-
lants, like Sarey Camp, but occasionally
smokes a cob pipe
Mary Mcdonald, born in 1870. is an in
mate of the Home for Aged and Infrm
Coored Persons in West Philadelphia. She
has certificate attesting 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 tobacco 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.
There seems to be some peculiar quality
in the Hooser air which is conducive to
longevity. Alexander Ferguson, aged 107
years, and his wife, aged SO, are living near
Munce One day in March the old couple
went to Muncie and together climbed three
flights of stairs in the court house unas-
sisted, to defend themselves against charges
of insanity which had been made by 75-
year-old daughter.
Grandmother" Medarls OF the town of
Brooklyn, near Martinsville, Ind, celebrated
the Tooth anniversary Of her birth last
June. At last reports in March she was
still in good health, having recovered from
the grip and there was good reason to
believe that she would succeed in her deter
mination to live a few years longer so
that she would be able to say she had lived
in three centuries
Should his life extend through the year
1900 Walter Kerr, who has resided on a
farm in Dearborn county, near Aurora Ind,
since 1916, will be entitled to the distinc-
tlon of having lived in three centuries. He
was born in North Carolina, April 20, 1890.
His life has been active as a hatboatman
and farmer. He married in early manhood
and is the father Of ten children, all living
except one son, who was killed during the
| siege of Vicksburg in 1863. His youngest
| son is "a and his eldest daughter rs.