Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1881 — Died at the Age of 125 Years. [ARTICLE]

Died at the Age of 125 Years.

Wwt Tennessee Whig. Mrs. Nancy Tims,of whom mention was ma lrf n the. e columps (brio weeks ago, aud who is, perhaps, the oldest living being, is daily growing feeble, and it now seems quite evident that she cannot much longer rurvirs. Many of our oiticens have called to see this venerable woman since # ber arrival here a month ago. For one and and a quarter oentunes, Mrs. Tims has been | a living witness or parsing events. She was at the battle of Brandywine, fought 104 years sgo the 11th of September, and assisted her mother lo mould bullets for the use of the Americans in that contest. Her sixth an, only living oWd, a sonde 90 year* ©W and is a resident of Tessas. Her youngest child, also a son, was accidentally killed in Weakley county in 1842, at the age of* 25 years. This

nFsa , »3pwsFKi& weigbing oter 100 ponnds, and until the past fifteen years, since which time ■ she has been helpless, she exercised freely, doing willingly what her hands found to do. A prominent gentleman of this county, himself Weir advanced 1“ years, remembers that fifty years SMP Mrs. Tims was a very old woman. Since the shore was written Mrs. 1 Tims died, and was burled on Wednesday evening. Germany has the most accomodating ?! , Po * t Offices. It:dally transmits ‘birds, boasts, aud jpkts Jfof a harm">rt. goo3funlnteltigibly d»mrted, was lately put ap at auction sale, when $875 was found under its P*nlon. The eepdey has not bpsn 4i»coveyed.