Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1918 — Became a Father at Age of 102, When Eldest Son Had Already Lived 73 Years. [ARTICLE]

Became a Father at Age of 102, When Eldest Son Had Already Lived 73 Years.

A father at eighty-four—such is the recent record of Mr. Jackson, a north country fanner, says London Tit-Bits. Men more patriarchal still have figured in the ranks of fathers. Such a robust veteran was Sir William Nicholson of Glenbervy, a grand old Scotsman. who lived nurse an infant daughter after he had passed his nine-ty-second birthday. Sir William then had a daughter alive of his first marriage, aged sixty-six. He married his last wife when he was eighty-two, and. had six children. \ “ ■ a Sir Stephen Fox’s last child was cradled when the father was within a few months of completing his hundredth year! Sir Stephen was born in 1627, and had by his first wife a daughter who died issnfancy In 1655. The child of his old age survived to the year 1828,. and was thus able to say, “I had a sister who was bulled 173 years ago!” When William'Frest of Ripon was laid to rest In 1789, at the age of one hmidred and eight, he was followed to his grave by his eldest son, a veteran of eighty-eight, and by his youngest boy, aged fifteen, who made his appearance when his father was within sight of his ninety-second birthday and when his eldest brother was seventytwo. Thomas Beatty ’of Drumcondra, near Dublin, celebrated his one hundred and second birthday on the very day on which his youngest born entered the world, and when his eldest son had already seen seventy-two years. Thomas Pars made his first trip to the altar at eighty and became the. father of two children; and he was so full of vigor that he made a second matrimonial venture 42 years later, when his years numbered one hundred and twenty-two.