Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — SOME OF THE VETERANS. [ARTICLE]

SOME OF THE VETERANS.

Moultonbobough, N. H., boasts of a widow 90 years old who never took any doctor’s medicine. Elisha Durden, of Walton county, Georgia, is said to be lu2 years old. He picked a bale of cotton in his centennial year. Joseph Cabbell, a veteran of the war of 1812, died at Westminster, Bucks county, Pa., lately, in the 91st year of his age. A negbo woman recently died in Washington county, Ark., at the age of 112 yeaxa Strange to say. she was not one of G. W.’s servants, but distinctly remembered having seen the hero of the hatchet affair. Mbs. Mabtha J. Rodgers, a 60-year-old widow, of Shelby county, Ky., has pieced a diamond quilt which contains 1,686 pieces,* double sunflower quilt containing 2,000 pieces and a hexigon quilt containing 1,400 blocks. Hagerstown, Md., claims the oldest workingman in that State, if not in the Union. Robert Lewis, who is in the 95th year of his age, has just completed the mason work of a cistern at a residence in that city, doing the work in a thorough manner. He is in vigorous health and bids fair to continue his labors for years to coma Mrs. Sarah Kellogg, of McLean, HL, on the occasion of her 78th birthday, was surprised at the washtub by a party of friends, who tendered her a party in honor of the anniversary. Mrs. Kellogg has not evidently outlived her usefulness, and puts to shame the dainty misses of the present day, who fear that the performance of any useful act, like assisting in the family washing, is not in accordance with the compass of their “sphere." Macon county boasts the oldest man living in Missouri, if not the oldest in the country. His name is Robert Gibson, and his age is over 116 years. He Is five feet two inches in height; weighs 145 pounds. He recollects dimly the Revolutionary war and the Presidency of Gen. Washington. Mr. Gibson’s oldest boy is 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. One' of his sons has twenty children. His direct descendants, now reaching to the fifth generation,number nearly 400. A few weeks since an old woman, upward of GO years of age, died at a place called Eglinton, near Londonderry, Ireland. The usual arrangements for a funeral were made, including a wake. The coffin was closed and taken to the place of interment, where the service was duly gone through, the coffin lowered and the grave filled in. On returning home, however, the relatives were amazed to find the corpse of the old woman a upon the bed upon which she had exThey had simply forgotten to put her in the coffin. They took het to the grave in a cart, dug up the empty coffin, placed her in it, and eventually had her securely planted.