The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-01
LIVED BEYOND THE
CENTURY ARK
Authentic Records Of People who
Passed the Hundreth miiestoas 81
life-one Who Attained the
Age Of tee Years

Age Of iss Years
Aunt Fanny Lomax the aged col
cred woman who only shcrs time
age, at her residence across the river,
near Georgetown: celebrated the 164fh
aTniy ersary Of her Eirth, said one OIL
washlngton's oldest inhabitants. us
true example OF longevity. Her
records are straight and her creden.
siais equallsss good. but she is al
Gaze among many thousands. i have
gwen much study to the subject OF
longevity continued the old gentle
man. and have NO hesitation IN say
ing tl3t nine out OF ten of these cen.
1ensrians we hear about, many of
Them in the aImshouse or in country
regions, supported by their friends
or descendants. do not know when
they we're born. and there are no rec
srds extant 70 show the date, and
Ehile many of them can remember
events that have occurred sixty or
seventy years ago they car carry
sheir mertal chances no further to
the rear
great many honors are attend
ant upon old age he went on to say.
and ! think the feeling of homage
Is as well exempiified by the Chinese
as by any other people In that coun-
try. II a man lives TO be more than
100, the universal impression is that
he must have been good man to
have been blessed with so many years
Of existence, and he has statues and
memorial arches and monuments
erected TO his memory 1t is to be
noted, however. that these mementos
are few and far between, for few men
arg SO good in their lives as TO get
70 he 100 years Old,
Ths old resident may have been
Substantially correct in his assertions,
but the truth is that very many peo-
pie have lived beyond the age of 100
yexrs In a census of Great Britain,
zaken about forty years ago, 1t was
shown that 80 persons within the
period of the census had lived to be
more than 100 years old, says the
Washington Star.
searching into statistics concern
ing advanced age, it is found that
Gaien The great physician, who died
somewhere in the early period OF the
Christian era, had worried along
through 40 years of earthly exist
szre As late as the year 1880 there
WIS woman slave in Jamaica who
Vas reputed to be 1876 years old. Her
nane was Cooba. She is of frequent
mention in books on longevity. Her
memory was perfect up to the time
2f hel, death, and she could see to
thread q needle until year of her
beng called to the other world. She
say four generations Of her masters
family
On 1872 Esmina Diamond died at
KING tom Jamaica, aged 100. Jamai-
"a must have been greet place for
1nHE Afs- At Port Regal, on that ISL
and, also In the year 1912, died Ann
Mignall. over whose head the sum
Isiarss OF i2a years had shed their sun
shinel Ann was a slave who was cap
zzred IN Africa aud carried to the
West Indies.
But these old folks were not all col
eEed people. In one of the census
reports Of Great Britain occurs the
following
ord Bason, in his History of Life
and Death quotes as a fact unques.
tEnner that a few years before he
wgote morris dance was performed
- Herefordshire, at the May games,
eight men whose ages in the ag-
gregate amounted to 500 years"
he Library of Health" an Eng.
liSh publication, many years ago rub.
iisiied this paragraph:
We were personally acquainted
Stth the late Donald Mcdonald. of
EqarreIsome memory who was sent
s, the House of Correction for a street
ssasl when he was los years old
When her 100 he enjoyed excellent health,
AAs iather lived to be 1877, and no one
knaws when he would have died had
he rot been accidentally killed"
lany women also have had a long
leaseson life. Mrs. James Simon died
~ london 119 years of ag..
Probably the eldest lnan since our
veil remembe Metlluselah. at leas,
the oldest man during the Christian
etn up to date, was Henry Jenkins
alahorer, who was born at Ellerton
orsslade. He was IL years old when
tale battle of Flodden Field was