Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1912 — MARRIED AT THE AGE OF 150 [ARTICLE]

MARRIED AT THE AGE OF 150

Further Substantiation of Aztec. Indian’s Remarkable Record —He , Died at 185. Austin, Tex. —Further substantiation of the report from Tuxpan, Mexico, of the death some time ago of Jose Calvario at an age lacking only 15 years of the two century mark, was contained in a letter received here from Frank L. Watson, an American mining man at Coloma, Mexico. “I was at Tuxpan on the day Calvario died,” he writes. “I had seen the old man walking about the streets of the town many times and he was often pointed out to me as being nearly 200 years old. So interested were the state officials in the report of the great age of the man that a special commission was appointed to investigate the claim. The records of the parish church show that he was born in 1727. He left 7,000 descendants. "He often told hi< friends in a joking manner that he had the largest family of any man In the world. No one knows how many times he was married, but it is commonly reported that he married his last wife when he was past the age of 150 years and that they had several children. “Calvario was an Aztec Indian. He ate whatever he iiked and, of course. (

his poverty prevented him from faring very sumptuously. He was a moderate drinker of native liquors for 165 years, and his memory did not go back to the time when he began smoking Mexican hand-made cigarettes. "This Methuselah of modern times was born and lived within the shadow of Mount Colima. El Cano. He was a witness to the destruction of Tuxpan by an earthquake In 1806, when over 1,000 people were killed.”