Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — Death at the Age of 105. [ARTICLE]

Death at the Age of 105.

Philadelphia’s oldest inhabitant, Mrs. Susan Hayne, aged 105, was buried last week. Her father was an English sea Captain, and was drowned when she was three months old. Her husband was a sliip calker, and lived to a green old age! Her mother died of the yellow fever, and she herself was attacked by the same scourge, but recovered. She had twelve children, fifty-four grandchildren and 112 great-grandchildren. All! yes; she once saw Gen. George Washington and Mrs. Washington alight from a carriage and go into a house in her native village.