The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-02

grandfather.
fury mark are three children. real"
and actual. who enter their ninety
ninth years OF life while our present
calendars are on the wall-William II.
Hall, Keene Valley. n. y, who accom-
plished this feat February Mrs. lane
Newkirk. Laporte. Ind, and Mrs. Mar
garet *. Johnson. of bennington. Ky.
who is the last survivor of Rev
tionary veterans family OF sixteen
children.
An Indian Patriarch.
Doubly entitled 20 call himself
American, because his veins hold the
blood both OF our empires aboriginal
owners and of its lberators, is the
! next most ancient link. Sopiel Selmore,
son of a Passamaquoddy brave. Sell
more Soctomah. who. besides render
ing various services to the cause OF
the colonies, distinguished himself in
the Revolution rs an Indian scout and
! captain in the marine service Sopiel
his son by his squaw Dennis Molly
Selmore entered his ninety eighth
| year March j, and may we'll look for
ward TO century span for his father.
! the good Soctoman, was considerably
! over hundred years old at the time
/ of his death, upon the eve OF our Civil
! War, when SopIel was a middle-aged
| man of forty six.
A Great-Grent- Grandfather.
| He is able to be about and enjoys
! his four grandchildren, with whom he
| lives" is the report / get this week
| from the household OF John Adams. of
Holden. Mass. who entered his ninety
eighth year May 8.
| His great-great-great-gr grandson is
now two years old" the letter goes
! on to say OF this patriarch. whose ia
! ther and maternal grandfather We're
| both Continentals. One of the priced
relics of the family is his grandfather's
/ wooden quart fask-made like little
/ keg-which was carried through the
| Revolution. Mr.. Adams and his good
F., wife lived together nearly sixty seven
| years and until her death. in 1908.
/ They celebrated their golden wedding
/ In 1889.
| One of the near-centenarian real
daughters" who has favored me with
her photograph is Miss Janet Blair. of
Madison. n. y. who gave Decoration
Day Just passed an added touch of
patriotism by entering then upon her
ninety eighth year. 1t has been the
recent custom of her chapter sisters
on that date TO make a pilgrimage to
her home. laden with refreshments, in
Guiding a birthday cake adorned with
the figures of her age In red frosting.
Her father. Seth Blair. enlisted three
tlIHeS uuTiuS the tteNOlullOn.
! Among nine real Children of the
Revolution who enter their ninety
seventh year In 1911. is Wellington A.
Clark, of Crown Point. Ind. whose
portrait is also reproduced herewith.
His father Benjamin Clark, one of tho
Massachusetts, patriots who responded
to the alarm OF April, 1878. shouldered
his hintlock and marched from his
/ home in Midway, later working his
n hp MIR
! sergeant.
the aforementioned Mr.. Joslin, is Will
liam Bethuel Barron. OF Westminster.
Mass, aged ntnety-one whose father
and grandfather both fought under
/ the banner OF Washington. the former
] sa a private and the latter as a cap
tain His latest portrait is repro
duced in an accompanying column. as
Is that of Mrs. Mary Ann Rishel, Of
| Clintondale. Pa, who Is the daughter
| of a revolutionary veteran. the sister
| of an 1912 veteran and the mother of
Civil War veteran. Her father
served during Ave years of tho Revo-
luton as a ranger on the frontier. and
! the $500 in Continental money which
| ne received for his services was kept
! many years by his family, in the
| hope that the government would re-
deem It. Mrs. Rishel, who celebrated
her ninetieth birthday March % last,
1 is child OF his third wife She has
dozen grandchildren and two dozen
great grandchildren. A few years ago
her home and it's contents were de-
! stroyed by fire. but pension granted
her by the d. a. r. has partially al
leviated her want Her chapter lately
gave her Revolutionary flag. which
she placed on her fathers grave
/ Father Born 16S Years Back.
! Not many men now alive can boast
that their fathers were born as many