Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — OLD TIMERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLD TIMERS

Mrs. Wealthy Walker of Monroe, Me,, aged 88. drove 100 miles to Poland to dine with her live sisters. Private Leroy Wiley of Peoria, 111., at the recent convention of soldiers of the Mexican war, was the only veteran out of 150 to use crutches. Probably the oldest bread winner in Michigan is Adam Lunger of Royal Oak, who, though 94 years old, drives a milk wagon daily to Boddow and return, fourteen miles. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Spring Haskell have been "Celebrating the seventieth anniversary of their wedding at 31 Lefferts place, Brooklyn. Mr. Haskell is 90 years old, his wife SO. John Capps, now 88 years aid, who lives at lUiopolis. 111., is sole survivor of the 101 citizens of Sangamon County who guaranteed the sum necessary to locate the State capital at Springfield. Mrd. Caroline O'Fallon of St. Louis, who died the other day in her 95th year, was tlie widow of Col. John O’Fallon, who gave more than §1,000.000 to St. Louis for parks, churches and hospitals. John J. Overton of St. Joseph, Mo., a veteran of the, Black Hawk and Mexican wars, enlisted when over GO and served through the civil war, and at the age of 101 wanted to fight against Spain. Frederick P. Sanguinot, father of eleven children, with twenty-six grandchildren, has just died at his home, 4353 Evans avenue, St. Louis. His death is the first that has occurred in the family, including three generations, for over half a century.

I Miss Mary H. Carroll, who lias just died at Cambridge. Md„ was a daughter of Thomas King Carroll, Governor of Maryland ,iti 1829, and a sister of Miss Anna Ella Carroll, whose remarkable work in aid of the Union cause during the civil war has a permanent place in the records as the Government.