Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1899 — OLD TIMERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLD TIMERS

A New Yorker died from excessive tea drinking the other day at the age of 83. _ Dr. George W. Chittenden, who died at Janesville, Wis., at the age of 79, was the oldest practicing physician in Wisconsin, and was widely known throughout the State.

Mrs. Mary P. Coats of Philadelphia celebrated her 102 d birthday on Thursday. Her family- was represented in every war from that of the revolution to the civil war> and it was a great source of grief to her that her sons were too old to enlist in the Spanish war.

The pallbearers at the funeral of Miss Mary Batennan, who died last week at the age of 70, were, in compliance with her particular request, all young bachelors. Miss Baterman was a resident for a long time previous to her death of the town of Sparkill, N. Y. The death of Mrs. Jnlia A. Hedges, 96 years old, of senile decay, at Indianapolis, developed that her husband, who is still living, is 106 years old. Mr. Hedges still hears and talks readily, and he is physically quite active, but his memory is treacherous. Their only support is a pension on account of, a son killed in the civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Hedges had lived together seventy years. Several of their children are still living. Harrison steed, whose death at Jacksonville, Fla., at the age of 86 years, is announced, was the first editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and was a member of the constitutional convention of Wisconsin. During the civil War he held an office in the Treasury Department, and at its close he moved to Jacksonville. In May, 1868, he was elected Governor of Florida, and served two terms, until January, 1873. Ih 1878 he waa elected to the Stats Assembly for two years. Since then ho had lived la retirement at his homo la