Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — A Town Noted for Its Old People. [ARTICLE]

A Town Noted for Its Old People.

Probably-no town in the State of New York ot equal population, has as large a proportion of old people as the . town of Hempstead, L. I. The oldest person in the township lives at Far Rockaway. Her name is Mrs. John Wellstead, aged 101 years. She is still an active woman, enoys good health and attends to her various domestic duties daily. William Baylis, of Plainfield, is 05, and his wife 97. Mrs. Abraham Scott, of Lawfence, is 97. She still enjoys good health. Mrs. Christopher Snedeker, of Hempstead village, is 91: Jacob Shaw, of East Meadow, is 93; Timothy Doxey, of Pearsalls, 93; Z ichariah Storey, at Christian Hook. 93; Uriah Bedell, of East Meadow, 93; Solomon Wan. ser, of Westvil'e, 92; Nathaniel Smith, of Hempstead Village, 92; Thomas Smith, of F reeport, 91; his wife, 90; Benjamin Barton, of Rockville, 91 (he never married); Early Granger, of Springfield, 90; William F. Hicks, of WestvHle, is 90, with hardly a gray hair in bis head, and is as spry as a boy. Mrs. J6seph Smart, of Freeport, is in her 89th year. She does not know what it is to be sick, and reads without glasses. Charles Pettit, of Hemp stead Village, is 91; Mrs. Sarah Sanford, of Baldwin, is 89; Dr. John Davidson, of Hempstead Village, is 87, and still attends to a large practice. Daniel Smith,of Merrick, is 86, and his wife is 83. He is-still a hearty man and works ten hours a day on his farm. They were married on his return from the War ot 1812, sixty-six years ago, and have raised a family of eight sons and seven daughters. David Langdon, of Pearsalls, is 86, and his wife is 86. Mrs. Rhoda Wright, of Valley Stream, is 80. She has lived in her, present home 63 years. Thomas Shore, ot Pearsalls, was bora in June, 1800. Cornwall Abrams, of Pearsalls, is 80, and still follows the bay. He gathered oysfors all fast winter and during the fall was employed as night watchman on the oyster beds Of East Rock away.— Neu. York Tribune.