Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — Beaten Only by Methuselah. [ARTICLE]

Beaten Only by Methuselah.

Ilenry Jenkins, of Bolton, Lancashire, England, lived to be 109 years old. Mrs.- Anna Savllle, a writer of Jenkins’ time, has the following in her account of him: “I questioned lit in about, Iris age. He said he was 102 or 163. I asked him what public event ho ooold longest remember. Ho said tho- battle of Flodden Field, when Henry VIII. was King. He said he was then between 10 and 12 years of age,, and was sent to Northallerton with a horse-load of arrows, but that a biggor boy was sent to tho army with him.” All this agrees with tho history, of that time, bows and arrows being then in use. The battle of Flodden, Field was fought Sept. 9, 1513, and Henry Jenkins was then a boy botwoeni 10 and 12 years of age, died Dec. o*. 1609, so that ho must have lived at least 169 years, sixteen year longer than old Parr, who was born in Shropshire in 1483, and died in 1035. If this account of the,age of Jenkins 1» reliable, he lived longer than any otiber man in the known world, except Methuselah, concerning whose ago there has been much dispute.