Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1912 — Was 102 and Didn’t Know It [ARTICLE]

Was 102 and Didn’t Know It

John Wilson, a naval pensioner wb« has died at Bexhill, Sussex, aged 102. did- not know that he was a can tenarian. His true age was only dls covered after his death, when hit naval service papers were examined Previously his age bad been estimat ed from trie date of his baptism at M —London Daily Mail.