The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-08-22
REMARKABLE FAMILY.
Five Generations and the oldes
Member Only So Years.

Little Miss Heron, the daughter d
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Heron, Of No
1854 Broad street, has the unusual
honor of having a great-great-grand
mother who is only SO years old, hale.
hearty and able to perform daily
household duties, with as much ease
and effectiveness as the little ones
grandmother. Many children through
out the world bear the no near dis
tinction of completing a span of four
living generations, but there are only
a few who can step into Baby Her.
ron's shoes-beg pardon, she doesn't
wear any yet, for she's only two days
over four weeks old, having entered
the world October 81. However,
Baby Herron's glory may be consider.
ed somewhat diminished by the fact
that she is not the first Of her family
to possess the honor, as her mother
had a Observation-Disclosures until
she was IL years old, sc that little
Miss Heron is a great-great-grand.
child of a great-great-grandchild,
which is truly a strange coincidence.
Mrs. Heron is "a years old, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Walford
Berry, of 1913 Capen street.
The baby's Observation-Disclosures
does not live in Hartford, but is nice
ly situated in a cosey little cottage,
surrounded by three acres of land, at
Bombay, Franklin county, New York.
She mas lived there the greater part
of her life, and is known to all the
staid old settlers and their children
as the grand old lady," Mrs. Phoebe
Dyer. She lives entirely alone. and
attends to the customary cares Of d
household with as much zeal as a
young married woman. Mrs. Dyer
Is a native of England. Size came 10
this country when she was but a lit
lie girl. Her family, Taylor by name,
settled in Canada, where she met Will
liam Dyer a young tailor, whom she
married at the age Of IT. Mrs. Dyer
had fourteen children, seven Of whom
ire now living. They are Mrs. Jane
Sweet of Bombay, N. Y; John Dyer,
If Greenwich, this State; MS Mary
Niles, of Bombay, N. Y; and Robert
Ind Thomas Dyer and Mrs. Martha
Macdonald, of Summertown, Prov
nee of Ontario, Canada. Mrs. Dyer
and her late husband moved to Bonn
Day, N. Y, while the children were
still little tots, and the father did a
business at his trade.
The oldest child OF this genera on
S Mrs. Berry, who married about
twenty-five years ago when she was
lS years old. Mr.. Berry is a motor
man on the Burnside line. They were
blessed with five children, the Oldest
If whom is Mabel, who two years ago
married Robert Heron, n then
came Baby Heron, who serves as the
connecting link of five generations.
The baby, with it's mother, is at
present staying at Grandma Berry's
home, where a Times reporter called
Sunday afternoon. Everything was
happiness, and grandparents, PARENTS
dncles and aunts proudly related the
merits of the distinction held by the
little one. 1t seems d surprising
thing, on first thought, that such a
state of affairs should exist when the
head of the five generations is only
SO years OLD. 1t Is easily
for, however, by considering the
early marriages Of the women IN
Baby Herron's direct line OF ances-
try. The fact that Baby Herron's
npther was a great-great-grandchild
herself adds charm to the family,s
history. Mrs. Heron said that Mrs
Dyer's mother, her great-great-grand'
mother, diei about twelve years ago.
and that she remembers her distinct
ly, as she was twelve years old when
the aged relative passed aWay.-Hart'
ford Times.