The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-27
Passes Hundredh Birthday
With FetU Marks of AGE

| II was somewhat % t task Tor
Mrs Sexton and her husband 20
/ check up ON the NCuo-thl' man y
progeny He has 2S grandchildren,
so many great grandchildren that
MIR. and Mrs. Sexton gave up in
despair before they could mako a
sufficient genealogical survey uf the
4 family for total, and eight gryat-
great -graudC Childron. Four of these
are the children of Mrs p1lb Davis
/ Of Emerson, Iowa, who ls the daugN-
ter OF Annie. Mrs sexton daughter.
Two OF the fifth generation were
present al the birthday celebration
Sunday The youngest OF the direct
descendants of My Chance ia a baby
Flossle Jones. who ~ tho daurhlcr
OF the oldest son OF Edgar Chance. OF
St Louis.
II has bcou only within tho Inst
few weeks that Mr.. Chance has bc-
trayed in his figure his right TO q
century birthday. \ fine, upstandirg
figure Of man. he hls never
stopped at all until very rec,utlv.
FIRST Signs Of old Age.
Father was away for three weeks
and when he came back | noticed
for the first time that he WAS
stopped" Mrs. Sexton said. before
straight. And he hasn't nlrdly any
wrinkles at all i'm his fdec--not
nearly as many as I have" she
added. laughing. and Mrs. sexton q
face IS 10y no means that OF hn old
woman. lie eats now as he has
eaten all OF his Hfc-anythng that
he wants. and az much OF It as he
wants. His appetite il good. and he
enjoys his pipe as much as IN ever
did. Occasionally he smokes cigar,
but it Is from his pipe that he de
riycs the most pleasure. Until very
recently he has been quite a reader,
but falling cycsght, shown by the
fact that "his glasses have got too
young for him. has kept him from
reading as much now as he used TO
do. Always his Bible was his fav-
orite book Mrs. Sexton said; he is an
earnest student Of the book, and It Is
, in passages OF prophecy that he
takes most interest. lie is \ member
. OF the Christian church, and when
he came to Oklahoma 20 years ago
he put his letter with the congrega-
/, tiun at Ninita.
Memory Dwclls on Past.
: Tntil 20 years ago he lived on his
b farm between Columbia and Gem
tralin. There he and Mr.. sexton 4
father worked together; eve hauled
shingles that we made" Mr.. Sexton
said" and sold them for SO a thou
sand but while Mr.. Chance likes
TO talk Of the old homestead In
Missouri. his memory goes even
b. further back than that, ana it is ot
: the days when the farmers ploN was
n piece of wood attached - ~ iron
! rod for "A guide, and paddle was
, carried TO keep the dirt from col.
loot fVafr a
. was all that he knew; when his OK.
I drawn wagons had sawod-cff svca'
T more wheels and all OF the clothes
they wore as well az the food thCl
9 alto, was produced on the farm o'
8 which he likes best TO talk. Indeed
e az his daughter said, all of the peo
y pie that he knew and grew up Will
t have died, and his memory dwell!
I with them and their own past link
n ed with his constantly. II was hi
{ wish that "old Judge VIII Franl
n Roberts" of Columbia preach his fu
A neral sermon, but the old Judge ha
|. passed on long since. MIR. Chance
/ when no left Missouri TO come I,
a oklahoma. was so years old am
n strong and well as he wps, he ha'
. no more idea than ambition that h,
would live TO see the celebration o
:. n hundred years OF life. In all o
4 his life, so far AS his daughter car
!. RENE ember, he has never been sick I
. day
Z "IIe took the scissoc1 the othe
o day" Mrs. Sexton said with a rem
= inisCent laugh, land cut his whisker
!, right up the middle. He has alway
o had fine looking whiSEora, and the
!, are perfectly white, like his hair
The way he has cut them now, the,
l. look like sideburns.
A Mr.. Chance expects To come bacl
~ 10 Tulsa in "A few weeks TO spend tn
n summer with Mrs. Sexton and an
q other son, II. J, Chance living at tn
n corner Of Twelfth and Atlanta.
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r mounted on any punch press 10 pus
q an operators hands out OF danger
r on Ohio inventors idea.
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