The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-08-10
SOME OLD PEOPLE.

RoDeFl Dell, lTe OlQeSt resident OIL
Dubuque county, Iowa, was 100 by the
records when he died last winter.
Mrs. John Ozark, 100 years old, died
few days ago at her home near Ga
lena, ILL.,, where she had resided for
eigtyfive years.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, had centenar-
ian in the person of James Mcdonald,
who recently died in St. Joseph's hos
pital, 102 years old.
William thinner of Clinton, Ia, has
just celebrated his Tooth birth anniver-
sary. He is still hale and hearty and
is seen walking in the streets every
day.
Mrs. Mary Stotler of Chillicothe. Pc
oria county. H., by her own method of
computation, is 115 years old. She does
was born.
Sarah Terry celebrated the 10Sth an
niversary of her birth by joining the
Daughters of the Revolution in Phila-
delphia last November. She personally
knew George Washington and Lafay-
ette
Jonathan MCGEE of Ann Arbor, Mich.
a colored veteran of three wars, who
places his age at ITO years, was short
time ago married to Mrs. Amelia Day
of Ypsilanti. The youthful bride was
still in her fifties.
Mrs. Catharine Watts of Sellersville,
Pa, celebrated her 1OSth anniversary
in October and told her friends that
she managed to keep happy ard busy
doing little, housework and aiding
without glasses.
In Franklin, Pa. the other day, two
centenarians skipped blithely up to
the church altar and plighted their
| troth in marriage. They We're John
Clews, sprightly boy of 1902. and
Sarah Jennings, who is getting we'll on
toward her 1O1st birthday.
Michael Mooney of Philadelphia is loo
years old and almost rugged enough to
play football. 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 eventually 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, col
ored, who is reputed to be 1875 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 stimulants, like Sairey
Camp, but occasionally smokes a cob
pipe.
Mary Mcdonald, born in ITO, is an in
mate of the Home for Aged and Inf1rm
Colored 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 week may take what
comfort they can get.
There seems to be some peculiar quail
ity in the Hoosier air which Is condu-
Give to longevity. Alexander Fergu-
son. aged LOT years, and his wife, aged
%. are living near Muncie. One day In
March the old couple went to Muncie
and together climbed three flights OF
stairs in the court house unassisted, to
defend themselves against charges OF
insanity which had been made by rs
year-old daughter.
Grandmother" Medaris of the town
of Brooklyn, near Martinsville, Ind.
celebrated the Tooth anniversary of hel
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 determination
to live 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 farm in Dearborn county, near Au-
rora, Ind, since 1916, will be entitled tc
the distinction Of having lived in three
centuries. He was born in North Caro-
lima, April %, $780, His life has beer
active as fatboatman and farmer
He married in early manhood and IL
| the father of ten children, all living ex.
cept one son, who was killed during the
siege of Vicksburg in 1863. His young,
est son is "a and his eldest daughter 70