Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — VERY OLD PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

VERY OLD PEOPLE.

Solomon Evebsull, of Hamilton county, Conn., has just celebrated his 100th birthday. Robert W. Knight, the oldest citizen of Portland, Me., died on Sunday, aged 93 years. After living to the age of 99, Matthew Arnold, of Colchester, N. Y., committed suicide. Arthur Connelly died recently in Lockport, N. Y., at the age of 99 years and 11 months. There are three old persons in Baldwin county, Ga., Sylvia Cambert and Peter Hal are each 113 years of age, and Mary English has just passed her 110th birthday. John O’Malia, of Cleveland, died recently at the age of 105 years. He had never been sick, and just before he died he said he felt drowsy, and apparently fell asleep. Nancy Reilly, ofiOregon, when a girl, walked from the Atlantic to the Missouri, and subsequently when moving in Oregon made the entire trip on foot. She is now 90. Cable, the New Orleanist novelist, will reside in the North hereafter.