Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — BEYOND THE CENTURY MARK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BEYOND THE CENTURY MARK

Cherokee Indian Claims to Have Long Outlived the Allotted Age of Man. In the Cherokee Indian nation is an old Cherokee who says he is 104 year* of age, and some people who have traced the matter believe he is sneak-

Ing the truth. He certally looks ft. He has th© scalps of three white persons in his possession which h* claims to have taken as a warrior in a fight with early settlers in early times. He is the oldest Indian in the Cherokee nation. His eyesight 1* good and he has never been sick a day. He can walk and run and 1* fopd of smoking and a drink of whia. key.

104 Years Old.