Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-02
REMARKABLE ACE RECORDS
The Brazilian Who Lived 12s Years
and Had 1as Descendants An
Ensllshwoman Of 1873 Who Had
q Daughter Of 100 Years
By GEORGE NOx Mccain

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| fame of their longevity is largely local.
| Some years ngo what is believed to have
| been the Oldest man ever known IN the
United States died at one Of the missions In
| California. He was an Indian known as
cold Gabriel" and his reputed age was
| 1876 years.
| have recently looked up tho neurology Of
aged persons in connection with d statement
| by n local life insurance expert that the
average of human life is growing longer ,
| If the following records carry weight IL
would seem that those whose lives extend to
any considerable length beyond the century
| point are not nearly so numerous now as
| they were 100 years ago.
Practically the whole Of Europe was GOV.
cred by the necrologist OF the Town and
| Country Magazine of London. 1771-1774.
In its issue Of April, 1772, occur the fol-
| lowing under the head Of deaths:
MAY 25, 1771. Jasper jenkins, Esq.,, age
AV1 1906 at Endfeld, formerly a merchant
May p. Frederick 'Gilemaud. ESQ.,, for.
| merly captain Of u Russian man of war,
aged 9s, in piccadilly.
June II. Mr.. John Wigan. aged .92. on
EPSON Downs, one of the oldest jockeys in
this Kingdom.
June 81; Mrs. Keith, at Newnham. in
Gloucestershire. aged 1888. who retained her
senses till within n fortnight before her
death she has left 5000 pounds to her three
daughters, the youngest Of whom is 100
years Of age she has likewise left behind her
about seventy grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
Then follow in succession these deaths:
Mr.. Firth. aged 81. late physician at
Whcatley,, near, Halifax, YORKSHIRE. :,
~ Mary Metealf, aged los, near Backwork,
Mrs. Tate, aged 1oG, at Nation, in York.
shire.
DARTICULAR attention was paid by the
1 editors of the General Magazine and Of
Town and Country Magazine to the death
not only Of extremely old persons, but to the
demise of noted, unusual and titled individ-
uals. Thus:
- Perrman. Esq. at his seat at Hert-
fordshire well known, in his skill in horse
racing and cock fighting, by which he
amassed upward of 1000 pounds per annum:
which, after paying some legaces. he has
left to relation, youth about nine years
Of age.
June !. Mr.. Morgan, at Rotherhithe,
formerly purser of u man of war, recorded
to have died worth 30 900 pounds. but was
so penurious he would not keep any serv.
ants.
At his home in Tulley street, Southwark,
Mr.. Brech, an eminent npothecary and man
midwife.
April i. 1774. Oliver Goldsmith, NJ. D.,
gentleman highly celebrated for his literary
productions, at his chambers in the Temple.
horn. after long and painful illness. which
he bore with great fortitude and resignation;
the character this gentleman held in the re-
public of letters has rendered 1t unnecessary
to eXpatiate here upon his merits and abili-
ties. and we learn that some works he had
intrusted with literary friend would prob.
ably add to his reputation as n writer.
The above referred to the famous novelist
and and playwright. DR.. Tobias G. Smollet.
above date of his death, placing 1t on No.
vcmbcr II.
THE death column Of Town and Country
L Magazine for November. 1771, notes the
famous dead:
Solomon Emanual. Jew, native Of tho
Marquisatc of Moravia. aged 100 years and
s months. at The Hague, October 13.
The following are taken from various is.
sues Of the two magazines named between
1714 and the close of 1776:
Mrs. Rachel Nuns, aged 107. at st. AL
bans, who never had fit of illness in her
life.
At Shssnall, aged 12S. Mary Yates. She
married a third husband at 02 and was
hearty and strong at 12O years.
amptonshirc, Mrs. Dorothy Clarke, aged 112
years: at the age of 102 She sheared wheat
whole day against a man and performed
her work with ease.
L unusual record of longevity are these:
At XII james, near Thomas-Town, in
Ireland, Mary Jackson, aged 127 years; she
retained her senses to the last.
At Tinncrane, in the County Of Glare, in
January. 1915. AT SARA, in Brazil, one
Andrew Vidal aged 124. He enjoyed the use
of his memory and his senses to the day of
his death. In the year 1872 he was Chief
Magistrate of the city. and Notwithstanding
hn bo ,c
Judge to the entire satisfaction of every one
lie was father of thirty sons and five daugh-
ters, OF whom sprang thirty three children,
tifty-two grandchildren, forty-two great
grandchildren and twenty six descendants of
'tcsc last all Of which formed a posterity
II 1SS persons. of whom 1l0 were living in
1173. They lived In one and the same house
with the respectable head of the family.
uERE are some oddities from these ne
IL geological studies:
At Northampton. Mr.. John Leach. In the
1Obth year of his age: b" retained his mem.
ory to the last hour of his life and could see
TO read and write Wit hOut spectacles.
At Marlborough. in Ireland Mary Cocp,
aged IL years.
At Kcnsington Palace, Lady Burgoyne,
wife to General Bursoyne, in North Amer
lea.
At Woodford, in Essex, James Gibson.
aged SO, formerly one of the foremost
brandy merchants in London. having mid
in the course Of forty years 1000 900 pounds
to the Government. In the early part of life
he was taken by pirates at sea, from whom
he escaped to an uninhabitcd island, where
he lived alone four years subsistlng upon the
fowls he found there.
Aged ST, Mr. John Harrison, inventor
and maker of the timepece for asccrtaininr
the longitude at sea.
THE year 1916 records the following:
i At Ilammersmth, Miss Margaret md
Judith Hodges, twin sisters and moidcns
who died within few minutes of each other
aged 81.
In Lincon's Inn Fields, Mr.. Natban,al
Garden. aged 0G; servant of the Duke NJ
Marlborough in his last campaign In Elan.
dcrs.
In Oxford street, Mr.. Wells Roslnnc. do.
sgncr; and Oh the third day after his wife.
who refused all sustenance after her hus,
bands death until she expired.