Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-09-05
Modern Instances Of the Passage Of the Cen.
tury Mark.


The Scriptural limit Of human life Is
threescore years and ten, but II by rea.
son Of strength the period Is continued
until fourscore years, this strength Is
labor and sorrow" says the inspired
writer. OF the 1000 cases Of centenari.
ans given by Haller, only Is attained
the age Of 130 years, 20 exceeded 120
and 62 11O years. The case Of the York
shire fisherman, Henry Jenkins, who
died in December, 1910, at the age OF
1863 years, is one Of the most remarka,
BILE in modern history. Thomas Parr
who died in 1886, at the age Of 162 years
approximates his contemporary in in
terest, the latter being 1874 years old al
the time of PARIS demise; but the
great difference in the actual number
Of years that each Of them lived, easily
gives Jenkins the pre- -eminence. ParI
was 80 years of age when he was first
married. His second marriage was
contracted at the age of 122. He re-
mained a farmer until he was 130. be-
ing able, until that period, to plough
and thresh. The last Of his days were
spent in the luxurious court Of Charles
| I, and it is supposed that the change
in his mode of living hastened his
death. His remains were dissected by
the noted Harvey, and showed no de-
cay in any organ. There are satisfac-
tory records of two or three older men
than the ones selected, but they are
not in themselves characters Of sc
much interest. In 1924. Petrarch Gar
tau died in Russia at the age of 1s5
years. A few days prior to his death
he was able to walk with the aid Of a
staff. In 1741, the Hungarian, John
Roven, died at the age Of 172. His wife
whose death occurred the same year
was 164 years old. The couple had been
married 142 years, making them the
oldest married pair in the world. Their
youngest child, who was living at the
time of their death, had attained 115
wears. Thomas Winslow, one Of Crom-
wells captains, died in 1855 when he
was 146 years old. Contemporary with
him and Of the same age was Jonas
Warren, or Ballydole. who died q years
later at the age Of 167. Jonas Surfing
ton, of Bergen, Norway, was living at
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triarchs, his death occurring ten y,ars
after Warren's, when he was 159. The
death of Demetrius Grabowsky at 169
took place in Poland 60 years ago, and
in 1S45 Bridget Devine died at 147. A
judicial inquiry was instituted at Cor
dova in South America in 1880 for the
purpose of ascertaining the age Of a
Negress named Louisa Truxo. She tes-
titled that she remembered Fernando
Truxo, the bishop, who gave her as his
contribution towards a university fund.
The bishop died in 1914, 166 years prior
to the judicial investigation. A Ne
gress, who was known to be 120 years
old, testified that Louisa was an elder
ly woman when she herself was child.
On this basis the authorities at Cor
dova concluded that Louisa must be, as
she asserted, 175 years old. In 1874,
there was living in Georgia a Revolu-
tionary veteran by the name of John
Hames, who was 1876 years old. He was
born in Mecklenburg county, Va, and
was 10 years of age when Washington
first saw the light. He had fought un-
der Gates at Camden, and with Green
at Hillsboro and Eutaw. He had also
ridden with Marion in many a gallant
dash into a Tory camp.