Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1920 — Page 19

— —What is the Truth about Old Unde John Subscribed and sworn to before me'this 26th day of April, 1920. ::::::::: | j I will be SI years old the 10th of July, 1920. I was born and raised in Harlan County, V ’ i ” ’"*' j..; j ;;;;;;; j; Kentucky, In 1863 1 met Johnny Shell, who was called “Uncle Johnny” then. I was dodg- X /\ti\ urnT/imt tattit ctTTTT ■■. - ■ ::: ' s T ::;;; ±: Ins the Confederate armv and met “Uncle johnny”. He was too old then for service in the C—— \ vJLJLJ UMI/LL tfUiln uilLiili + + ■■■■* ■■■■■ + ■ ”■■■?■ Civil war. lam satisfied he is at least HO years old, as he is a much older man than I am. \ >2 % , _ . .. Al . Mjr ±: -- J: Most everyone in Harlan County knows me and will take my word for anything I say. I 1 • ::W JL A Remarkable ylu Mountaineer. 'jLK r + Tj. would not make unless i believed it to be true. t s ward. / j!gsfs Now Living at Greasy Creek, Kentucky. •Pk 1:!:::: I . Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 23rd day of April, 1920. * / ‘ 4F; / Was thought by some to be 131 years old, but a full investigation <Mfl ■■ 3; \ M. G. SMITH, Notary Public, Harlan Cos., Ky-. f t / does not disclose any reliable records going back so far. : ft In different conversations with John Shell, he often told about comine to Kentucky with his father fn the •• - --f M- ‘ 3 ifiifi. and tnat thevcamDed where the town of Harlan. Ky.. is now located, and that at that time he was 12 ■ ":••. •' ■.': - -m4+ > f WWi ' yurt old. In abstractive old land capers I found one where an entry was made by S. Shell (John's father) in the .' 1 . J- - - -4* -4-+-+-!~ 111 F H01.A.. [I year 1816. iA tltf #e*.*tibcrhood where he now lives. Itiave every reason to believe John Shell is a good deal over UK) 4-4- -f II 1 fT‘ I Ft I I rsiCa.. ”“_ l , a j Atiomer ,1 u., ■)■■■■— I Sfotfiiuont bv John Shell's Grsndson ' I few miles from Shell, says Shell his turned 100. I talked to Shell last year. He knew me gs U I*l SLU 111 WB 18. W J VU 11 9 I UllUli U UIS MlliflVUll W S&& god talked to me as intelligently as 1 ever heard him. i have always found John Shell an H + ~ft (| * -T Judge Cornett Says AU of 108 * C | A - H - Shell, aged 45, of Chappell, Kentucky, grandson of John Shell, I whose picture is shown in the group at top of this page, authorized, publication. 5 W the age of about 12. he is now at least 108 years old. and I believe older, i have talked B I 'iSaßE& i3®3Bj3¥*< Wfl W&2r£& % V * YlMfeft?Er With him in the last year and he seemed to be intelligent and just as rational as I ever saw Wm % B qJ J||g folio Wifl (T StflldTlCnt \ “Older_Than My Mother, 104" K “My grandfather has lived to a remarkable age. When a young man, he g took very little medicine. Os late years he has needed medicine and mywife In justice to John Shell and his family, it should be said I has looked after it for him. .. He needed something as a laxative and to. SatwasrivM "n’Mme'rftlwreporS^uWtetefta" I keep his liver acting, so she sends to the store for , i press. A story of the kind grows in the telling, and the desire f. l__ _ ___ ___ . VTy . TTrn PKI ior something startling to make good reading is no doubt the \ A f;WiTIIT ATTfiTT ■ .... \ /^^SjLX.’ cause for the interesting fiction (founded on fact) that has been I XUll/r %J2\LP O DlM\rß& m MJIX£ l L vUHXt ■ published about old‘‘Uncle’* Johnny Shell. , . . 0 0 u„„ 0 > Facts, however, in many cases, are just as interesting as and makes him a tea from that and it keeps him in spiendid shapw. H _ fiction, and we have endeavored in this article to give the facts . || 3B L 9 *

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