The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-10
SOME OLD ALABAMIANS.

It is rare indeed to find a living human being who was born in the eighteenth century and who has been an inhabitant but Anniston, Alabama, has one of these rare instances of longevity in the person of Mrs. Peggy Pendergrass. who was born. according to the records. on Nov. 6, 1795. She comes from what In human life Is looked on as the days of the an cients, and brings with her the flavor of events which are merely historic to most people.
 When she first opened her eyes to the l light, George Washington was closing out his term of office as first President of the infant nation which had but lately emerged from a long war, and which, at her birth had hardly become accustomed to walk in garments of independence. It was a small and sparsely settled, but sturdy and independent, nation when she came on the scene. The arts and sciences were in their infancy in America. No stea mboat had ever disturbed the waters and no railroad train had ever awakened the echoes of the primeval forests The electric telegraph was half a century ahead, and all the uses of steam and cleo tricity which are now so common were hidden in the future. She was a young woman when her father fought under General Jackson in the last war with England. and was looked on as an old woman when the Confederacy sprang in to existence.
 When Mrs Pendergrass was born, the Alabama which has been her home for so many long years, was practically a territorial wilderness, and she was ma ture woman when our State entered into the growing family of States. The region about where she now lives was the home of wild beasts and the hardly less wild | Indian. The great Creek tribe or nation held the country and it's warriors were | lords of all the woods, the valleys and the hills which are now the homes of the
 white man. She saw a nation in its in- fancy and has grown with it and has seen 1t become one of the mighty powers of the civilized world. And the State which was christened when she was a grown woman has risen and hourished and become one of the most prosperous States of the Union. It Is given to but few human beings to see the close of two centuries, and to be present at the open ing of third. and who, according to The Anniston Hot Blast, is still a bright and active woman, who may add several oth- CT birthdays to the many which she has celebrated during her long journay of one hundred and five years.
 And. speaking of old people, The Green vile Advocate has this to say of another Alabamian:
 Uncle Weley Langsdon, living near Pigeon Creek, celebrated his one hundred and first birthday last Friday. The old gentleman suffered considerably last spring from a severe spell of grippe, but has recovered and was few days since in excellent health. He wanted some | boards and not being able to get some one to get them out for him, took froe and mallet and went into the woods and rived 1000 boards in one day, which
 man in his prime. The work did not | hurt him in the least.
 Here is another citizen who came into
 the world almost with the birth of the last century, and who has been an eye
 witness of all the important events which
 have marked the growth of a great State and a great nation. May they both cele- | brate many more birthdays is the wish of The Advertiser