Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1917 — LIVED UNDER SIX SOVEREIGNS [ARTICLE]

LIVED UNDER SIX SOVEREIGNS

Aged Resident of New Brunswick Ascribed Long Life to His Activity and Early Retiring. T ~ Aftproosingfor bis picture on his one hundredth 1 and fifth birthday anniversary, Levi W. Richardsun..saulto he the oldest man in New Brunswick, died before lie had falrly-started-his-A T p> prmdrcrifh and sixth year. He : had been ill for only about ten days. Mr. Richardson ascribed his long life and remarkable preservation of his faculties to going to bed early and being active. . He had followed the operations of the war with the most careful attention, and his only ambition for the last year, says the Mutual Star, had been to live long enough to see Great | Britain and its allies successful, for lie had lived un,der six sovereigns and had watched with interest the expansion of the empire: —— More than 80 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren survive him.