Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1859 — Bemarkable Statement—A Colored Servant of Gen. Washi gton living in Champagne County, O., at the age of 112 Years. [ARTICLE]

Bemarkable Statement—A Colored Servant of Gen. Washi g ton living in Champagne County, O., at the age of 112 Years.

We are indebted to T. S. McFarland,Esq., of Urbana, (.)., for the following highly interesting facts, which are also substantiated by anothergent’eman of the same place:—Cincinnati Gazette. Ens. Gazette: There is living in Concord Township, Champagne countv. ()., a remarkable colo-ed gentleman, named Richard Stanhope, now in his one hundred and twelfth year. He is very active, both in body and mind, for a man of his years. His bead is as white as wool, and with the exception of a slight delect in his hearing, he retains to a s .rprising degree the use of all his mental ami physical faculties. He was born the first day of March, 1748, in Fredricksburgh, V irginia, and is beyond doubt one of Gen. . Washington’s servants, as he has in his possession a certificate in Washington’s ■ own hand writing-. He was with his master in several of the battles of the Revolution, and shows honorable scars received in the bloody conflicts of that 1 day. He was also in the army in the last war with great Britain, at the time of Hull's surrender. He was at thi; time of the surrender driving a team, I and when ordered to drive to a certain point, positively said he would not. but. unhitched his saddle horse and made his way back to this country. He is now living with bis third wi:e, who is eighty years old. He is the lath r ol twenty-eight children, most of. whom are living. Mr. Stanhope has been , a citizen of Champagne county for 48 years, 1 and has always sustained the character of 'an honest man and good citizen. He lias be- n a meml er of the Baptist Church for \ eighty-eight yeats. T. S. McFarland. Urbana, » ).; March 14, 1859.