Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
AVERY FAMILY LIVING
TO GREEN OLD AGES
Angeenos Who Are Passing Into the
Scar and Yellow Leaf With
Younu Hearts


Young Hearts
Los ANGELES, April 12.-(Editor
Herald)-Noticing your request for the
names of oldest residents, 1 would like
to present the members of the Avery
family living in Los Angeles:
Mrs. Sallie Avery Kidson, s5 years.
Mrs. Mary Avery Lanphere, SO years.
Samuel Avery, 81 years.
Mrs. Deborah Avery Jones, 70 years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hicks, Sc years.
Two members of this family are liv-
ing in Wisconsin. Mrs. Martha Avery
Merrill, aged "a, of Oak Center and Mr..
John Avery, aged 40, of Fond du Lac.
Jacob Avery and Lydia Avery Shaffer
died several years ago in Wisconsin.
Both were over 20 years of age.
OF ten children born to Joseph S. and
Clara Avery in Lewis county, New
York, nine lived to be over seventy
years of age, and, if Mrs. Jones sur
wives her next birthday. four over so
years. George Avery died at IS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kidson came to Los An
geles twenty-six years ago, and, of
course, have seen many changes since.
Wonderful things have happened to
Los Angeles and her people during
that time. The best that happened
to them, however. is the fact that their
ranch of twenty acres. Forty-ninth and
South Main streets. purchased at low
figure over twenty years ago was sold
this year for $4,000. Had Mr.. Kidson
had the bad luck" to sell three years
ago when he offered 1t for $4,000 he
would have been just that much short
in his bank account today. Mr.. and
Mrs. Kidson reserved two lots, the one
upon which the house stands and the
lot adjoining and will continue to re-
side in the old home built by them
many years ago. 1t was In the old
home that the picture published in The
Herald was taken three years ago,
when Mr.. Avery and his four sisters
were together for the first time in over
fifty years.
Mrs. Kidson has always enjoyed
good health. She has always done her
own work and sewing until this last
winter when she became quite i'll all
though she was not confined to her
room.
Mrs. Lanphere came to California
from Iowa fourteen years ago with her
invalid husband, who lived eight years
after he settled in Los Angeles. They
bought little home on East Thirty
seventh street for 500. Mrs. Lanphere
sold it for $14OO, two years ago, and
went to live with her son. George o.
Lanphere at Strawberry Park, where
she keeps house for her son and
grandson. She is very active for
one of her years, for she is in her saith
year. She often comes to the
city to visit her brother ana
sisters staying a few days, return
ing by electric car, and, If her son does
not meet her, she thinks nothing of
walking out to the ranch, mile away.
She came up not long ago stopped at
a store, bought goods for waist for
herself, cut and made it in two days
while she was visiting her sisters.
Mrs. Samuel Avery came to Los An
geles three years ago from Pipestone,
Mimi, where he had resided since 70.
He is remarkably active for one of his
age. Although he is i'm his eighty
second year he does not look or appear
over 10. Soon after coming west he
purchased his home, 1925 Berendo
street, where he takes great pleasure
in attending to the flowers and little
garden, his roses being the envy Of all
his neighbors and of every passerby.
MIR. Avery enlisted at the beginning of
the war in the Forty-eighth Wisconsin
volunteer infantry and was discharged
June 6, 1866.
Mrs. Deborah Avery Jones, widow OF
Captain E. Jones, co. A. one Hundred
and Fourty-sixth regiment, New York
state volunteers. has for many years
resided with her daughter, Mrs. ID. M
Coonley in Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Coon
ley brought her mother TO Los Ange-
les three years ago to spend the winter
with her brother and sisters, some OF
whom she had not seen for many years
They returned to Detroit in the spring
and Mrs Jones had such a longing fol
California that they came back agair
last fall, and Mrs. Jones will remain al
least for another year If not longer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Avery Hicks, widow
;ppf the late Alonzo -. Hicks. sixteenth