Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1879 — Some Old Ladies and their Families. [ARTICLE]

Some Old Ladies and their Families.

Several years ago four ladies met in old Danville at the house of Mrs. John Goss, grandmother of John Goss, of Lewiston. The visiting ladies were Catherine Dyer, Catherine Goss, and “ Aunt ” Ham. The four ladies found that at that time they had fifty children still living. Mrs. John Goss died at the age of 81 years. Mrs. Ham died at the age of 93, and Mrs. Dyer at the age of 94, while Mrs. Catherine, mother of John Goss, at the age of 90 years, still lives with her children in Gorham, N. H., in Lewiston, and elsewhere. A few weexs ago Mrs. Catherine took the cars at Danville Junction alone, and went to Gorham by rail. — Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Walking-matches between cripples are the novelty in Boston,