Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1883 — OLD BUT GOOD. [ARTICLE]

OLD BUT GOOD.

Susan Durel, an aged colored woman, died recently at Brooklyn aged 106. Elisha Dubden, of Walton county, Ga, is said to be 102 years old. He picked a bale of cotton in his centennial year. Mbs. Ellen Birmingham, who died at Louisville, Ky., recently, is said to have been 107 years, 2 months and 14 days old Of those in Talbot county, Ga, passed 90 years of age there are the Rev. Zachariah Bteams, aged 94 years; Mr. Isaac Lucas, aged 92; Mr. John Green, aged 90. The latter Is the only male pensioner of the war of 1812 in the county. Thebe is a man living in Georgia at the age of 85 years whose father was 101 years old when he was born, and who lived to accompany him to the polls to cast his first vote The son now splits rails, builds fence, digs goobers and bids fair to live as long as his father. The Mobile Register says an Indian woman 120 years of age lives near Fitzpatrick, in Bullock county, Ga She was on Gen. Andrew Jackson’s staff as a cook when he cut a road through the country to Florida, and has some pot? and kettles in which she used to cook the General’s frugal food. Brookfield, Macon coonty.Mo. ,is the home of Robert Gibson, who is spry at the alleged age of 116 years. He recollects dimly the Revolutionary war and the Presidency of Gen. Washington. Mr. Gibson’s oldest hoy is now a lad of 81, and his “baby,” with whom he is now living, is 44. He has been twice married, and has thirteen children living and three dead. His difect descendants, now reaching to the fifth generation, number nearly 400. Jack Huey, a colored man who lives near Charlotte, N. 0., claims to be 112 years old. He was brought from Africa about eighty years ago, and when landed in an American port was a full-grown and well-matured man. The change in climate was so great in his transition from a torrid sun to the cold blasts of an American winter that his body became very badly frost-bitten, and his toes dropped off. Jack has never had a toe within the memory of any living acquaintance.